SD80MAC Update

With all the recent talk about the MAC's I decided to sit down this evening and prepare a little somethin-somethin for the fans Check out the link below for the latest update!

http://www.conrailcorp.com/statssd80mac.html

Enjoy!

~Kris

Thanks conrail6055

keep asking keep learning

Conrail6055,
Where have they been used out of lately?

I saw SD-80MAC 7209 sitting in Marysville near the bridge a few weeks ago. Never seen one before that. I was suprised by the scratching sound it makes when idling.

Every now and then a Mac will appear on the B&A as a trailing unit. The Interiors are in poor shape and maintainance is horrable...sad to think about it once the pride of the fleet. I've had the pleasure of riding in all but 3 of the units

CSX Engineer 98 wrote:Every now and then a Mac will appear on the B&A as a trailing unit. The Interiors are in poor shape and maintainance is horrable...sad to think about it once the pride of the fleet. I've had the pleasure of riding in all but 3 of the units

Are the interiors similar to the SD70MAC's?

The Engineers side is simular the Conductors sides are different...Dump valve located in different area. also Hand break is electric on the 80 macs located on the back panel, and interior lights are different...Little things.

Well, Norfolk Southern 7200 has been repainted and it kept its radical AC graphics.
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1035155
www.sd80mac.com
The ten SD80MACs still wearing Conrail Blue are three CSXT units and six NS units.
NS 7205, 7208, 7209, 7210, 7211 7214, and 7215.
CSXT 4595, 4597, and 4601
I felt like being nice so here are photos.
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=90885
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1001074
www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=49263
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=869723
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=70239
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=13727
www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=81997
www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=193835
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=912651
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1030065

I felt my prior post was getting long so I will ask here.

Don't some of the SD80MACs have a lease that expires in 2010? Hopefully at least one will be in still be in CR blue by then.

Weren't these behemoth's the only 20 cylinder when built in the 1990's?

Tom

uhaul wrote:Yes I am pretty sure they were. The SD45 line of the 1960s and 1970s with its V16 was the closest EMD came to a V20 until the SD80MACs.

Saw NS 7210 freshly repainted and it struck fear in my heart.
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1084210
Should be getting some SD80MAC photographs when I head to Pennsylvania in late April.

The SD45s and SD45-2s had V20s, not V16. the '40 series ( and 38s, and 50 and 60 and 70, etc) had V16s

I beleive the only V20 EMDs were the SD45s and SD80s (domestically at least)

The SD45 (and related models--SD45-2, SD45T-2, F45 etc) had 20-cylinder, 3600 hp 645 engines. The SD80MAC has a 20-cylinder, 5000 hp 710 engine--so it's not the only model with a 20-cylinder engine, but it is the only one with a 20-cylinder 710.

Video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsP6s4wCUUk

I have recently obtained a DVD recorder, and I am uploading video, from the 1990's, to Youtube.

The second unit is 4135, as I pan the camera, but I can't read the number on the lead unit.

There is an additional shot of a helicopter, and a freight on the Long Island, which brings this video to a little over 3 minutes.

I have more, but It takes time to transfer material from VHS to DVD, and more time to convert the files to MPEG-4. Note- I am using a "Free" trial version of the software to make the MPEG's, and thus it says "Evaluation Copy" on the screen.