While searching the train picture archives I found a picture of this strange looking GE loco wearing only primer that looks like a cross between an EMD cowlbody hood unit and a GE Genisis. The cab of this loco appears to be flat at the front with no protruding nose section either.
It looks kind of like a power / control unit for one of the rail maintenance contracting firms.
I have no clue. I does look like a power unit for a contractor, but I would assume that headlight package, and trucks would manke it a full pledge locomotive for someone. The frame appears to be much shorter than the average Dash 9 or ES.
I wonder if it is a new export model that we haven’t heard about?
looks kinda like railgrinder power
A preview of post-demise Amtrak P-42’s rebuilt for freight work???
Likely its an export model, but just maybe…
It might be an export model or an MOW unit for Loram.[alien][%-)]
Chinese bound.
That is not what those 90macs that EMD are sending to china are gonna look like?
One of the interesting facts about this engine are the trucks. I’ve never seen passenger Bolsterless trucks made for three axles, I’ve only seen the two axle bolsterless trucks, like that of the P42s or something. I also noticed that the primary and secondary resivors are together ont eh left side of the engine sort of like the wide nosed GE units (except their tanks are on the right). Om most of GE’s passenger diesels, the resivors are split up one on each side. Also, it looks to me as if it doen’t carry a very large fuel tank, because it is not visible in the center. So my analysis of this is…um…it’s someting out of the Twilight Zone.
New 3800hp diesel for high-altitude service in Tibet (China).
It is a unit heading for high altitude testing on the Moffat line. Heres a excert from drgw.net about it
“One of the prototypes for GE’s 78-unit locomotive order for the new Tibet railway in China has shown up in Denver, delivered by the BNSF. The units are officially known as GE C38AChe, apparently, per Sean Graham-White on the Loconotes list. I’m told the plan is to take it up the Moffat for high altitude testing. However, I find “high altitude” a little ironic, considering where these units are targetted for service. Some 600 miles of the new Qinghai-Tibet Railroad sit at above 13,000 feet (yes, 13,000, that’s not a typo), and the line peaks at 16,640 feet. By comparison, the Moffat crests at a mere 9239 feet.”
Hey, I know Sean Grahm White!!! And, thanks for the info, SNW8835…
Interestingly, the back half of that thing SCREAMS EMD F40/F45…
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The cab is definitely similar to that of a Blue Tiger, as found in Pakistan, Malaysia and perhaps other places.