What type of Diesel is this??? AC4400CW OR NOT

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I bought this on Ebay. I am painting it for KCS. It says it’s a AC4400CW. It has steps on the side, you can see them in the pic. But in the photo’s I saw I didn’t see any steps, and it looks like the back is different.

Thanks

Mike

HERE IS A AC4400CW

HERE’S THE ONE I HAVE

LOOK AT THE BACKS OF THESE 2 ENGINES

HERE’S THE ONE ON EBAY

HERE’S MINE

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The one you have looks like a GE AC6000CW.

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Agreed, twin stacks equals twin turbos and an AC6000CW. The one in the box from Oriental is the real AC4400CW.

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yup looks like an ac6000cw

here is a csx ac6000, has the same back as your brass model:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=620969

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The Brass color unit is an upgradable AC6000cw.

The originally came with a 4400hp engine, and later could be upgraded to the 6000h.p. engine.

The only differants I know of is the 6000h.p. unit has two exhaust stacks.

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Actually if I heard correctly they down graded those 6000h.p. engines to 4400s due to all the problems they were having. Same goes with SD90Macs. They down graded them to 4300s that is why they are shown as SD90/43mac.

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[#ditto]

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So the box is WRONG for this emgine. The one I have is a AC6000CW, right?? Man that’s my luck. I don’t think they had a AC6000CW in KCS paint scheme did they?

Thanks

Mike

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From Wikipedia:

[edit] Original owners

Original owners

Owner Qty. Numbers Notes
BHP 7 6070-6077
CSX 115 600-699 -5000-5016
Union Pacific 69 7010-7079 Labeled as: C6044AC (to be renumbered to 7336-7405, some renumbered already)
Union Pacific 35 7300-7335 Labeled as: C6044AC
Union Pacific 79 7500-7579 Labeled as: C60AC

Don Z.

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Looks like he got what he paid for, a model of a UP AC4400CW road number 7037-7047, Which was infact a 4400 HP version in a AC6000CW car body.

I would say use creative licence and use it.

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Its a AC6000cw/AC4400CW!!! ummm, duh…

its an AC6000cw with a 4400 hp engine ummm uh…yeh yeh! Thats it!!

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8500 That is one fine beauty there. How much did you pay for it and IF you were to sell it one day what would you sell it for? Just wondering

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This thread reminds me of my CP Rail SD40M-2’s that are dressed in SD45 clothing, lol.