Wabtec donated an AC6000CW to Lake Shore Railway Museum

via6309 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 10, 2015 12:21 pm **Posts:** 44

Good afternoon,

It is great that one of these is saved. While not as popular as the AC4400W, they are still worth the preservation. Even better in the town that they are sinonyumous with.

As raised by a number of people, time marches on and already 25+ years have gone by since the first one of the AC GEs, or Wide cab GEs for that matter were built.

Aside from 2 4-axle Dash 8s and this unit, no Dash 8 / Dash 9 / or AC4400W have been saved.

One can only look at the rows of cut up cabs at LTEX in Loardstown OH to understand that the number of Dash-8 6-axle locomotives are diminishing rapidly.

While they are "still new" in many of our visions, time marches on and soon none will be left.

We need only to remuind ourseves, that these generations of diesels, made GE the #1 builder in North America. That does speak volume as to the need to see a few selected examples saved.

For museums who have general mandates - like IRM for example and others, the younger generations will want some day to see an AC4400W or a Dash-8 6-axle saved. Those were the relevant units of their generation. Much like us older people, were happy to see SD40-2s saved, and ever older generations, the F-unit / Geeps.

Len

LeoA · **Joined:** Mon Sep 28, 2015 12:30 am **Posts:** 312

A C40-8 being saved would be great to see. That was the flagship product from GE when they pulled ahead of EMD not long before the widecab era.

One of the GE cowls in Canada also sadly looks likely to slip away, despite being the product that finally broke the Canadian barrier down for General Electric.

And while finally repainted in Union Pacific colors, I have a hunch IRM just might get one of the C&NW Dash 9's that have spent time through the years in storage there.

Ed Kapuscinski · **Posted:** Thu Mar 24, 2022 4:25 pm

LeoA wrote:

A C40-8 being saved would be great to see. That was the flagship product from GE when they pulled ahead of EMD not long before the widecab era.

One of the GE cowls in Canada also sadly looks likely to slip away, despite being the product that finally broke the Canadian barrier down for General Electric.

And while finally repainted in Union Pacific colors, I have a hunch IRM just might get one of the C&NW Dash 9's that have spent time through the years in storage there.

I very much worry that the Dash8-40C and Dash8-40CW are at risk of being this generation's E7s.

Ubiquitous until they're not. Then they're gone with maybe one survivor.

As much as I, as a Conrail fan, would love to see an SD80MAC saved, as a Conrail historian I'm most worried about a C40-8W.

PCook · **Joined:** Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:16 am **Posts:** 2127

While the door is "open" so to speak, I hope that someone in the area is making an effort to locate and interview a few of the people who worked on the AC6000CW locomotive design project. This is a locomotive where some of the designers are still alive.

PC

SD70dude · **Posted:** Sun Mar 27, 2022 2:42 am

Museum press release from a few days ago:

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