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The 5312 was first repainted in NS black in May 2003.


Chris Toth
NSDash9.com

On Labor Day 2016, Norfolk Southern held an Employee Appreciation Day event for shop workers and family members at the NS Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona, PA. Some of the shop buildings were open for touring and some NS equipment was also on display. Marc Lingenfelter was able to attend and he to...

I have posted the list of buyers and dispositions for the auctioned NS units on my website here:

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It was repainted in September 1999.


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That was actually NS GE ES44AC 8132. It was wrecked in a head-on collision that occurred in Washington County, Georgia on August 7th, 2015. The other two units involved in the incident were NS SD40-2 1637 and Dash 9-44CW 9796, both which were retired and scrapped last year. The 8132 had been stored ...

Norfolk Southern will be receiving an order of 50 new locomotives later in 2016 from General Electric, which will include 47 ET44AC Tier 4 certified units and 3 ES44AC Tier 4 credit units. The ET44AC's will be numbered in a new series as NS 3600-3646 and the ES44AC units will be numbered 8166-8168. ...

NS and CSX have finally agreed to a trade in which NS will acquire CSX's 12 remaining SD80MAC locomotives. For the SD80's, NS has traded 12 SD40-2's, which includes: NS 3425, 3426, 3427, 3430, 3432, 3433, 3438, 3439, 3440, 3443, 3446, and 3447. The 12 SD40-2's have been officially retired by NS and ...

Yes, the 33 stands for 3,000 horsepower, Tier 3 compliant. Similarly, the GP22ECO units are 2,000 horsepower and Tier 2 complaint.


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The NS GP33ECO locomotives are rated at 3,000 horsepower. Additional details on my roster page here: http://www.nsdash9.com/rosters/4700.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Chris Toth NSDash9.com Also visit my NSDash9 facebook page for the latest NS power updates.[/quote]

Norfolk Southern has worked a deal to acquire, via EMD/Progress Rail, 100 of Union Pacific's EMD SD9043MAC locomotives. They will be numbered NS 7230-7329 and will initially be used to help with the current motive power shortage. Eventually, these units will be rebuilt, basically as SD70ACe's, but u...

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Chris

NS has two active track geometry train sets. The one you mention consists of NS Research platform 38 "The Brick", which was rebuilt using the frame and trucks of former NS/NW EMD SD40 1620. It contains sensing and measuring equipment for track geometry and rail profile (rail wear), as well...

Norfolk Southern is acquiring 80 SD40-2 locomotives from Helm Leasing. These units are being patch-renumbered in the NS 3505-3584 series and prepped for delivery to NS at Metro East Industries in E. Saint Louis, IL. I have added a roster page to my website that lists the former numbers for all 80 un...

Here is a photo of the 8305 from January during rebuilding:



The unit is still in the shop and at last report was having its NS-modified GE FDL engine installed.

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NS 3422 is former Conrail 6516 and was built in November 1979:

http://www.nsdash9.com/rosters/3329.html

Also, this unit was repainted into the NS "horsehead" scheme in July of 2011.


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