>>6535

I noticed you spelled EMD GP7 wrong, anon. Don't worry, I'll fix it for you and include a picture of the best EMD of all time.

I always thought the SD38s and GP40s were cool.

Unfortunately this one has been repainted into the CN color scheme.

All of ya missed the mark, but >>6536 got the closest

>SD70MAC: 1,109 units built over 11 years
>SD40-2: 3,982 units built over seventeen years
>Pulls hard
>Can go decently fast
>Easy to maintain with stores of parts still available
>Good for switching
>Good for road freights
>Gives plenty of warning before you get wheelslip
>Sounds rad as hell
>Doesn't have a central computer that manages EVERYTHING, therefore reducing chances of electrical failure

Give me a fleet of these over anything else in the world and I'll be happy.

>>6537

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>>6539
You too missed the mark. It is the whole 40-2 line as they were basically all the same thing was the only major difference being six axel or four axel.

and it's not even close

It is as well that there are no Swedes here regularly, for they would flame you hard while maintaining that all the best EMDs bar one were built in Trollhättan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DSB_Locomotive_Mx1006_pic4.JPG

Man do I miss those days. 645E's in notch-8 were something else.

>>6556
>Dat feel when I use SD40-2s every day and run 8 is the norm in certain areas

>>6558
Does that imply scarcity of motive power?

>>6559
Nah, that's just shortline life for ya. I'd rather have a pair of GPs or SDs than the Gensets that are also in the roster.

>>6567
why is genset bad? I never quite understood the negative press

>>6602
Honestly? Nothing. People just dislike them because they lack the SOUL of the older EMD engines and feel generic. Like an economy car, I guess.

The truth is that there's a good reason GE engines more than 80% of the new locomotive market in North America. They're just better than the EMD ones.

>>6603
This isn't entirely true. There are objective and quantifiable reasons why Gensets suck. I've of the biggest reasons is that railroads will often cheap out on maintenance by letting a locomotive enter service with one engine inoperable for whatever reason, thus leaving the train with, effectively, 1/3rd less of a locomotive, or even half of a locomotive if you're unfortunate enough to be running one of the older ones with two engines in it.

Also, the lag in getting power is a bummer. It's easy enough to forget that, even though an EMD or a GE won't get you power *instantly*, they'll still get power to the rail a lot quicker than a Genset that has to start up one or two engines before it can produce the extra amperage.

Also one of the manufacturers went out of business and stopped supporting existing customers so if you have any unusual issues, especially with the programming of the computers, you're just shit out of luck. This is how we end up with things like a locomotive that shuts down for fuel conservation purposes after only being idle for about 40 seconds, and will not restart unless you drop all the breakers, pull the knife switch, wait a minute, and then start it all back up again. All you should have to do is just move the reverser out of neutral and then it's supposed to start back up automatically, but because the idle limiter is borked, we end up leaving it in forward all day and running the engines even when we're sitting at a red signal for a few hours.

>>6537

This would look good pulling the Tropicana juice train.