More F-units

Nothing says your business train is stylin' like a 4 pack of A-B-B-A F-units. Since Norfolk Southern has a G.E fetish I thought they would buy some of the surplus P40DCs in Bear, Delaware.
http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos. ... 927,162926

This is the second time I've heard this I thought the ABBA set was bound for KCS.

No, because they have the E8's, why go for an F7, when you have those?

oh different set of power sorry.

sallenparks wrote:oh different set of power sorry.

No, you are correct. KCS purchased the entire trainset from Rail Cruise America. KCS already has an A-B-A set of F-units of CN extraction. NS bought the A-B-B-A set from KCS.

As best as I can tell UP and CN-IC are the only class one railroads with E-units for their special trains. Of course, should KCS and/or NS decide to obtain E-units for thier specials it wouldn't hurt my feelings.

Engineer James, the only E unit Norfolk Southern ever owned was E8 1000.
http://www.nslocos.com/ns1000.html
Norfolk Southern had a quartet of FP7s in the 1980s.
http://www.nslocos.com/srfp7.html

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No offense but #1000 there is not an E8 locomotive....appears to be an SD-45.

Tri-State Tom wrote:U

No offense but #1000 there is not an E8 locomotive....appears to be an SD-45.

The 4022 was renumbered to 1000 for it's brief ownership by NS before it was sold to Juniata Terminal.

Yea, I konw CSX had the other 2 (Old numbers #9998 and #9999 now replaced by their F40's from Amtrak). Has anyone seen the new paint job yet??

Actually upon further research the former Conrail E8 4020 was the one on NS.
http://www.trainweb.org/conrail/cr/cr4020.htm

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