EMD SD70ACe

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http://www.locophotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=79066

I was just wondering how’s is the performance & maintenace on this locomotive?

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I will tell you that whoever designed this thing was not a conductor, the seat doesnt move up far enough and with the pacement of the icebox it has taken away about a 1/3 of my desk space

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I saw a pair on BNSF the other night on a coal train. The lead one had the sickest horn I’ve ever heard. I hope that’s not how they all sound…like a sick duck with a mega-phone.

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Sick duck with a megaphone? Well, it got your attention now, didn’t it?

One way to get attention is to be loud – the other way is to be annoying.

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Just out of curiousity, is there any visual difference between the SD70ACe and the SD70M-2, besides that you’ll only see the SD70M-2 in NS paint?lol

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On the fireman/conductor side behind the cab, the ACe will have two rows of inverters, looks like two horizontal grills stacked vertically while the M-2 does not have these.

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Canadian National, Florida East Coast, and CIT Leasing also own SD70M-2s.

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Hmm. Didn’t know that. I was under the impression that only NS had them… Wow, I have just been batting 1.000 in my facts this past week.lol Not really.

Oh, btw, thank you silicon212. No two horizontal grills on the conductor/fireman side. Got it. Sounds simple enough.

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No info on the performance and maintanence on this loco?

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Rumour has it CP is looking a purchasing some. The tests they have with bnsf 9337 and 9385 have been succesful.

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Here, does this help?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD70ACe#SD70ACe

I know I seen something a while back on tractive effort also, I’m looking. I believe the tractive effort was 157,000 lbs continuous tractive effort and around 191,000 starting. O, ok, here it is

http://www.emdiesels.com/en/locomotive/na_freight/sd70ace/index.htm

This should answer your question.

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They are running strong and I think FEC bought two units. FEC is thinking in buying a few more…

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I doubt it. They might get the Susi Q SD70M’s off the I&O, but it is very unlikely they will order any more new locomotives for a while.