![]() The Santa Fe ordered smaller fuel tanks, 3,250 gallons vs. There are a few other discrepancies between the model and the Santa Fe prototype. The speaker for the ESU sound decoder is above the rear truck. Here’s a look under the shell of the Atlas HO scale General Electric Dash 8-40B. The overall locomotive length is within scale inches of those drawings, meaning the trucks are about 6″ farther in from the ends on the model than they are on the prototype. (Santa Fe eventually purchased another 83 Dash 8-40BW locomotives with the North American Safety cab.)Ĭomparing the model to dimensions published in the April 1989 Model Railroader, the truck center-to-center spacing is almost 1 scale foot short. ![]() 7417, one of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe’s initial order for 20 Dash 8-40Bs, built in June 1988. The Dash 8-40 line would be the last four-axle models offered by GE. By the middle ’90s, the units were being replaced by six-axle power. Class 1 customers purchased these high-horsepower locomotives to move fast intermodal traffic efficiently, and the four-axle locomotives were the best solution in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The four-axle locomotives rode on GE floating bolster (FB) trucks. These 4,000hp locomotives used GE’s FDL 16-cylinder diesel engine and microprocessor control for improved efficiency over earlier locomotives. These locomotives are still working for some of their second (or third) owners, but they’re essentially gone from Class 1 service. Secondhand owners include CSX, which acquired engines from Conrail and Susquehanna BNSF Ry., all ex-ATSF Union Pacific, from Southern Pacific via SSW (Cotton Belt) Providence & Worcester from Susquehanna and Albany & Eastern, which came from CSX. ![]() Department of Energy and one kept by GE as a demonstrator. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) the U.S. General Electric (GE) built 151 Dash 8-40B locomotives in 19 for Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Conrail New York, Susquehanna & Western St. The new model is now available with an Electronic Solutions Ulm (ESU) LokSound dual-mode decoder. Atlas is back with its General Electric Dash 8-40B, originally released in 2001.
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