I have just found out recently that Norfolk Southern has been using SD40E’s in helper service on the Pittsburgh Line between Johnstown and Altoona. Is NS trying to replace SD40-2’s with SD40E’s as their helper locomotives over the Alleghenies or will they co-operate on the route?
BT
Look back through the Forum here for a month or two for posts of links to video clips by David J. Williams (I think) of NS operations in that area. Those videos are of exactly those two series of locos, and he provided an excellent explanation of same in response to some questions. There may also have been a short article in a recent issue of Trains, but I don’t have mine handy to check.