CSX SD70ACe

Spotted CSX 4836 as a trailing unit on a mixed River Line Freight on Friday, 3:17 PM, North Bergen, NJ.

It has also made quite a few round-trips over the B&A in the past few weeks.

the 4847 was e bd on Q386 at Roch., NY yesterday at 3:55pm.

Roadster,
did ya get to run one yet?

not yet, heck I'm still waitin to get my paws on an SD80 yet. Those are the 2 types I haven't run yet.

How many of these has CSX ordered?

Saw a pair of SD70ACEs headed east on the West Shore last Fri (4/22) in the AM with an 87 car train.

MR77100 wrote:How many of these has CSX ordered?

20

Are these new Locomotives? Never heard of that model before...

ACe's are the latest and greatest. Saw one myself in CSAO territory a few months ago.

EMD's offering in the new Tier II emissions-compliant era:

http://www.gmemd.com/en/locomotive/na_freight/sd70ace/

And in CSX colors:

http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/photo ... SX-yn3.jpg

And to think I thought the widecab GE's were ugly when they first came out...

The SD70ACe's are okay. Nothing special. They are not insulated very well from the noise of the horn in the cab. I prefer the 600 series AC motors that CSX has.

One was on a BNSF Stacker thru Downers Grove recently.

NS_2575 wrote:ACe's are the latest and greatest. Saw one myself in CSAO territory a few months ago.

They're not the greatest. Too many dam computers which lock the engineer out of things such as sand. (can only drop sand when in dynamic brake or below a certain speed.)

They are also not the greatest on van trains because they are built for pulling, not speed. as for pulling, they are great on the B&A climbing the Berkshires. 2MPH over the hill is better than stalling, lol.