Southern Pacific only owned 25 SD70M's (9800-9824) while Union Pacific initially ordered 1,000 SD70M's before making more orders later on after the merge. The original SD70M's are finally being retired and scrapped.Only the next phase units with flared radiators and notched noses are being left alone,including the units that are under warranty and leases with EMDX.

UP dash 9s have been retired for quite a few years already

@@Railfan9743 I see. Did they rebuild some of them, or did all of the units just get retired?

@@hakeemsd70m I’m not sure

Union Pacific's C44-9W's are slowly being rebuilt into C44ACM's.The SD70M's are finally meeting their fate and being scrapped.Mostly,the first run of SD70M's are being retired,the next phase units with the flared radiators and notched noses are the only units being spared.At that,the only original SD70M's that have been given other chances are the ones under warranty or have been on long term leases with EMDX.

Probably, lol

@@Railfan9743 oh sh-

So your “trespassing” thats cute

@dave Anderson, Chances are good you’ve trespassed before in your life, doesn’t matter where. So you can’t be telling someone they trespassed when you know good and well you have before lol

What leasing company? UP outright owned all these classes of engines.

@@davidstewart5694 no, not all. Out of the 1000 UP has, a good 200 or so were leased to them by EMD (cant remember the exact number), and their lease expired for them so theyre heading back to EMDX

Nice!

I’m not sure. UP retired all their dash 9s

@@Railfan9743 Oh wow they did!?!?! I wonder why they repainted them in 2019 then lol

@@amtrakisveryepic they only repainted a few in 2019. less than 10 iirc because of how faded and old they were

@@Railfan9743 I saw a UP dash 9 with a lot of SD70M's in a train yard In Utah and trains pass by and use the yard like it was a normal yard when I saw them it made me think it might be in Storage or is just sitting there to be used if UP needed it. Adding that up I saw 2 UP SD90MAC's 3732 and 3730 in another yard in Utah in April of this year 2022. On May 1st I saw a UP Manifest with nine engines some where SD60M's 7 engines in the front and two DPU's in the middle, UP AC4400CW 6032 (leading), and trailing was a UP SD70M 5005 , BNSF ES44C4 7987 , UP SD60M 2291 (with 3 tri windows), UP SD60M 2322 (trailing with 3 tri windows), UP SD60M 2245 (also with 3 tri windows), and a UP SD60M 2446 (with the 2 windows). The 2 DPU's in the middle were a BNSF ES44C4 6839, and a UP SD70AH 8825. Feel free if you don't believe me. I wish I could send a picture but idk how and I'm on a laptop.

probably another deadline

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They’ve been using these tunnel motors for years Unfortunately, they didn’t make it lead that time

Tracy, CA

Tunnel 3

@@Railfan9743 cool! got some drone videos in the bealville and caliente area on my channel. camped out for 2 weeks on either tunnel 3 and 2 in late 2020. cant wait to go back someday

That’s awesome!

Some of them will.

They are a model typically used on local trains

They are rebuilt and modernized SD60M's. I think they look really cool!

The SD59MX's are basically SD60M's that have been rebuilt and derated. They have flared radiators just like some SD70M's. Also,instead of using a V16 645 just like all the other variations of SD40's-SD60's,unless the SD45's are mentioned which had V20's,they actually have V12 710's as a prime mover which are detuned and essentially have the same tier of horsepower as a V16 645 from a SD60. The V12 as a 710 series is specifically for the SD59MX's.Any other 710 series prime movers in correlation are V16's and with all versions of the SD70's-SD90's,although SD80's had V20's.

Thanks!

Got some videos i made of my time in the caliente and bealville area.

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Thanks!