Union Pacific's Biggest Diesel Locomotive! | Tall Tale Or Not Season2 Ep1

[@DarrenHudson-g2x]

Awesome video man by the way both locos would look identical to there smaller counterparts with the dd60axs being longer to include the d-d x d-d wheel arrangement with the u70 looking the same to the u50 and u50c

[@TrainBandit]

@@DarrenHudson-g2x thanks, glad you enjoyed! I kinda figured they'd be similar 🤠

[@DarrenHudson-g2x]

@TrainBandit Indeed the u70 and the u50 would be the same and the dd60ax would use the dda40x shell with a lengthened frame to accommodate the d-d x d-d wheel configuration

[@DarrenHudson-g2x]

I have another so in 2004 csx commissioned ge and emd to build a loco together ( kinda wierd but whatever) what the two came up with was the sd94acw a 6850hp behemoth of a loco csx ordered 1 and tested it in coal service and it proved successful so csx ordered 99 more units with the first thirty (including the demonstration unit)into ac60cw yn2 and the rest in yn3 the locos would combine elements of the dash-9 ac44cw and sd90mac like the cab of the dash-9 and the radiators of the sd90mac and the fuel tanks of the ac44cw the unit would wiegh 455000 pounds have 210000 starting and 198800 pounds continues. 30 of the units were retired when everyone's favorite railroad man, E Hunter Harrison, deemed 30 of the engines to be surplus. The 30 that were retired were sent up to ltex for leasing and for shortline use with most of the units being kept on the roster you can still find them roaming around on the rails today leading and trailing on trains mostly coal trains but there not as common as say a gevo or the ac44 rebuilds

[@TrainBandit]

@@DarrenHudson-g2x thanks Darren! EMD teaming up with GE, there's gonna be a fight between those two 😂 awesome story though! 🤠

[@DarrenHudson-g2x]

@TrainBandit thanks thought of the two working together and just said hold up let me write something where the two work together