I have added a new roster feature to my NSDash9.com website covering all of the diesel motive power rostered by Norfolk Southern from 1982 through present day. This is a general summary at this point, but will eventually expand to include unit …

NSDash9.com [ Reply To This Message ] Date: 01/15/25 21:11 Re: NS Motive Power News Author: sync. Been ...

Saw a post this morning by NSDash9 on Facebook about NS selling 46 of their recently rebuilt SD70ACu's and figured I would post it here for those that may not know. They have 110 of these things rostered (7229-7339) with 64 being in storage right now. The units going up for sale ar

I saw a post from NSDash9.com yesterday indicating NS had retired all of the remaining 126 SD70M-2's, which were built in 2005-2006. I saw comments that they were full of problems, which could explain it. Then I looked back farther at the wide range of engines NS retired in 2020 - SD75M's, failed r

NSDash9 Wrote: ----- > Not all the Dash 9-44CW's will be rebuilt as > AC44C6CF units. Once the Dash 9-40C's are all > rebuilt as AC44C6M's, that program will continue > with the Dash 9-44CW's. > > > Chris Toth > NSDash9.com I guess the concern now is getting the OLS units before they bite the dust, or is NS gonna keep a few of the AC44C6M's in ...

Displayed today in Altoona PA at the Railroaders Memorial Museum to NS Employees and their family is New AC44C6M rebuild 4822. It's a little different, but the red looks nice! The unit is on display to the public tomorrow along with the Southern and Virginian Heritage units. 6/8/2024

NSDash9 Wrote: ----- > NS 8418 (former CR 6228) was the last Conrail > painted Dash 8-40CW on NS. It was repainted in NS > black in October 2011. > > The last LMSX leaser Dash 8-40CW unit in blue on > NS was NS 8461 (former LMSX 721). It was repainted > in January 2012. > > > Chris Toth > NSDash9.com What were the last active Conrail Blue units ...

NSDash9 Wrote: ----- > Rebuilt by Wabtec from NS GE Dash 9-44CW's 9553 > and 9623. > > > Chris Toth > NSDash9.com BNSF has been hauling a lot of older NS Dash 9-44CW units southbound past the Oklahoma City camera. .Four and five at a time. Wabtec must have quite a stockpile of them.

Author: NSDash9 The first two NS EMD SD70ACC rebuilds, NS 1800 and 1801, departed the Progress Rail locomotive plant at Muncie, IN earlier today and are destined for the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, CO, where the units will undergo additional high speed and software testing.

> Toth's excellent website, nsdash9.com, for the > answer. Is it just me, or is the stand-alone website gone? I get a "certificate expired" redirect message and have for the past few months. I don't do Facebook but figured like a lot of things the site lives there now. Posted from Android