BC Rail C44-9W 4642 on the head end of a north bound grain empty. A grain empty heads north out of Arcola siding at Fluker, LA. The classification for this locomotive should be C44-9WL. CN 2706 & BC 4642 head east through Ardrossan at MP 250 of CN's Wainwright Sub.

The GE C44-9W is a 4,400 hp (3,281 kW) diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems of Erie, Pennsylvania. Keeping in tradition with GE's locomotive series nicknames beginning with the "Dash 7" of the 1970s, the C44-9W was dubbed the Dash 9 …

Delivered in 2000, these Dash 9-44CWs were the first and only units delivered to BC Rail with the standard GE wide cab- albeit with the “teardrop” style front cab windows. Being the road’s newest engines, they were used in all types of heavy freight service.

2025年1月2日 · The C44-9W solidified General Electric as the top locomotive builder. When production had ended the model had sold some 2,387 examples domestically and in Australia. In addition, Canadian National and British Columbia Railway acquired 27 examples of the C44-9WL, equipped with a slight variation of the North American Safety Cab sporting four ...

Usually led by a specially painted brown B39-8, she was led this day by substitute power in the form of a Dash 9-44CWL. This luxury "land cruise" service began-in 2001 and died in 2002 when BCOL gave up all passenger train service.

2024年4月30日 · Recently I aquired an older Athearn Blue Box model of a BC-Rail C44-9W locomotive (BCOL 4641) in the iconic Red-White-Blue paint scheme. Well, turns out all BC-Rail Dash-9 units with this paint scheme were actually C44-9WL, which have a different cab and all BC-Rail Dash-9s with the Cab of that model, had the Blue and Silver paint scheme.

Quantity Built: 1795 (including 279-44CW for CN & BC Rail) Dates: 11/1993 to Present --Exterior Dimensions: C44-9W + (9-44CWL) Total Length: 73'-02" (73'-08") Wheel Diameter: 42" Truck Wheel Base: 13'-04" Height to Top Engine Hood: 15'-05" Height to Top Cab Hood: 15'-05" Cab Width: 10'-03" Hood Width: 9'-11" Top of Walkway : 9'-11" Width of ...

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Built by GE from 1993 until 2004, the Dash 9-44CW and its variants were the definitive North American mainline freight locomotives of their time, with an impressive 3668 total units built. Constructed for US railroads from coast to coast, the units were also ordered by Canadian roads, and significant export orders went to Australia and Brazil.

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