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 #119817  by crazy_nip
 
sd80mac wrote:for one I KNOW is that GE DOES NOT HAVE model with AC... GE has not come up with new design for AC model to meet Tier II..
you mean other than the ES44AC?
Last edited by crazy_nip on Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:30 am, edited 1 time in total.

 #119925  by Jay Potter
 
The preceding quote that "crazy_nip" attributed to me actually came from "sd80mac".

 #119949  by sd80mac
 
crazy_nip wrote:
sd80mac wrote:for one I KNOW is that GE DOES NOT HAVE model with AC... GE has not come up with new design for AC model to meet Tier II..
you mean other than the ES44AC?
oh.. I must have misinformed... thanks.

ken

 #121609  by mmi16
 
crazy_nip wrote:I dont understand this DC locomotive purchase...

for years, CSX has bought nothing but AC locomotives

now they buy unproved DC GE junk?

They werent impressed with the CW44-9's they bought and thats why they went in a different direction

I just dont understand this, especially after the fiasco with the HDL powered AC6000's
Tony Ingram, formerly of NS, is the Exec. VP of Transportation.....NS doesn't believe in AC technology....Tony Ingram was schooled in the NS party line; therefore orders for DC technology.

Facts, Facts.....Don't confuse me with facts.