From: nick+mtr@nicksandru.com   
      
   On 09/28/2014 09:36 AM, conklin wrote:   
   > "Jishnu Mukerji"  wrote in message   
   > news:kOadnYvTldU1nrXJnZ2dnUU7-VGdnZ2d@giganews.com...   
   >> On 9/27/2014 3:01 PM, JG wrote:   
   >>> On Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:23:53 PM UTC-5, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNeELa7nf44   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Footage just posted. ACS-64 locomotive behind the engines on Amtrak #6,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> eastbound on the California Zephyr through Ottumwa, Iowa. Siemens   
   >>>> assembly,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> for Buy American purposes, is in Florin, California.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Hope these are worthy successors to the venerable AEM-7.   
   >>>   
   >>> If this is number 622, its still parked at the yard at CUS.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> They are putting them into service real quick after receiving them. 620   
   >> is already in service.   
   >   
   > Are the new engines more fuel-efficient?  I did notice as the video   
   > progressed obvious diesel smoke coming from the consist.  Are there   
   > pollution controls on these diesels?   
   >   
   >   
      
   ACS-64 is an electric locomotive, drawing electricity from overhead   
   wires, so it doesn't have a diesel engine. They can only operate on   
   electrified lines (Amtrak's NE Corridor and Harrisburg lines). The one   
   that you saw was being towed from the assembly plant in California to   
   the NE Corridor behind diesel engines, as it cannot operate under own   
   power on non-electrified lines.   
      
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   Nick Sandru   
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