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It’s primarily a BNSF subdivision, they split ownership to accommodate for the railroad traffic from Denver and the old FW&D lines

Don’t have much of a choice about that; UP only runs a couple times a month in any sort of daylight, and I don’t get down to the other railroads very often, though I am trying to do so more as of late.

Eventually.

I don't believe so, but I'm not totally sure on that to be quite honest.

Yes, Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern.

Thanks, Randy! Glad you enjoyed!

9570 is supposed to be, but it's been mis-assigned 4 times now, may still have a few more runs.

From what I can tell, they are being replaced by new ES44ACH and ET44ACH units. It's kind of odd, though, I originally thought they would start migrating over to other trains other than coal as the newer SD70ACes are doing, possibly booting some of the Dash 9s out. But as it turns out, the GE/Wabtech units are cheaper in terms of purchasing new as well as replacement parts, despite being less reliable than the SD70MAC and SD70ACe, hence why the Dash 9s and AC4400CWs that were built at the same time as the MACs will continue on.

Correct, BNSF also just plainly has better connections with GE than EMD. A lot of MACs were off coal service in the months leading up to this, but coal was always their primary purpose. The Dash 9s are also starting to go, all the ATSF ones have been taken off the mains and from what I've seen the BNSF-bonnets will be all stored by early 2025. Assuming the 800 unit order is true, that will be it for a majority of their Dash 9 fleet and ThunderCab ACes too.

Indeed, just too bad there's not many years left of that. I feel like time travel will be used for more pressing matters, at least first, but we can always dream...

Thanks for joining, and glad you enjoy!

Would've been nice to see more rebuilt, but BNSF is more focused on buying than rebuilding for whatever reason. And me too, I would think a few will be preserved, but you can never be certain.

Most are going into storage, some of the early ones have been sold for scrap and these will likely follow in the coming years.

@@FreightTrainProductions I had the honor to have worked on quite a few here in Denver at the D&RGW fuel track over the years. I have hundreds of pictures of the in action.

Wow, very cool!

Unfortunately, yes.

@@FreightTrainProductions that sucks. Are they going into storage or being scrapped?

Most of the late active ones are going for storage, but the older 9400s and 9500s series MACs are starting to be sold and scrapped. Would guess some will reside in Donkey Creek, where most are stored today, for at least a few more years.

@@FreightTrainProductions I hope they will sell or donate some to museums. Where’s donkey creek?

Wyoming, just east of Gillette, around where most of the coal trains are loaded. Here: 44°17'18.5"N 105°16'43.6"W I will hopefully get around to posting a video of the deadlines there in the next few weeks.