New & Renewed
On Christmas Day, 1994, I paid a visit to the former Rio Grande yard in Provo, Utah. A group of three factory fresh GE C44-9Ws dressed in Southern Pacific speed lettering awaited my arrival.
Fast forward 30 years, and the same locomotive passed through Echo, Utah on Union Pacific's Evanston Subdivision.
UP 9655 was rebuilt from the ground up by Wabtec as an C44ACM. If you compare the two photos, much of locomotive hardware was modified, and the original locomotive cab was removed and replaced.
The rebuild involves 75 UP, CNW, and SP Dash-9 units. They will undergo a DC-to-AC conversion, receive digital and technical improvements including FDL Advantage engine upgrade control technology, and Modular Control Architecture.
New & Renewed
On Christmas Day, 1994, I paid a visit to the former Rio Grande yard in Provo, Utah. A group of three factory fresh GE C44-9Ws dressed in Southern Pacific speed lettering awaited my arrival.
Fast forward 30 years, and the same locomotive passed through Echo, Utah on Union Pacific's Evanston Subdivision.
UP 9655 was rebuilt from the ground up by Wabtec as an C44ACM. If you compare the two photos, much of locomotive hardware was modified, and the original locomotive cab was removed and replaced.
The rebuild involves 75 UP, CNW, and SP Dash-9 units. They will undergo a DC-to-AC conversion, receive digital and technical improvements including FDL Advantage engine upgrade control technology, and Modular Control Architecture.