Western Railroad Discussion > New NS Tier IV's in KC: A LOT of them!

Within the past week, a number of Norfolk Southern's new, Ft. Worth-built ET44AC's have somehow found their way onto the coal trains to-from the NS in Memphis.  

On Wednesday, I caught this southbound coal load running out of Murray Yard for the Ft. Scott Sub. The units were in a 2+2 arrangement, with the 3654, 3652, 3656, and 3650 doing the honors.

- Jeff Carlson

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Not to be outdone, today, an awfully bizarre move came rolling north up the Ft. Scott Sub in Kansas City.  There weren't just four GEVO's on this one.  Oh no, there were NINE of them!  How in the world this train ended up with nine brand-new NS GE's on it is beyond me, but I was thrilled to be able to photograph it today, along with a number of other local railfans.

This train's consist was as follows:

NS 3660
​NS 3659
​NS 3667
​NS 3664
​NS 3666
​NS 3651
​NS 3665
BNSF (Booooooooo!!!) 9978
​NS 3661
​NS 3668

Enjoy, and happy hunting!
- Jeff Carlson

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Nice shots!!

​I'm sure some of the nine were DIT.....

Nice series of all those new locomotives. 

NS owes BNSF A LOT of hoursepower hours !

Great catch & photos.

Ronda Thomas

here they are at Chattanooga TN  in transit to Memphis TN for interchange

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Nice catch! At least you were able to get some sunlight on them.

Any idea on the route these are taking from Ft. Worth to the NS in... Memphis?

Thanks,
- Jeff

M Wrote:
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> here they are at Chattanooga TN  in transit to
> Memphis TN for interchange

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bnsfsd70 Wrote:
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> Nice catch! At least you were able to get some
> sunlight on them.
>
> Any idea on the route these are taking from Ft.
> Worth to the NS in... Memphis?
>
> Thanks,
> - Jeff
>
> M Wrote:
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> > here they are at Chattanooga TN  in transit to
> > Memphis TN for interchange
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> Posted from iPhone

Most have run BNSF Ft Worth to Memphis to NS.

gmojim

NS has received the new units in Memphis, sent them to Chattanooga to be setup for service. Then the units were placed on BNSF empty coal trains in Sheffield AL or Chattanooga to be sent west for service on the RWSX Scherer coal trains.  NS owes BNSF a lot of horsepower hours.

​gmojim

Got it.  Thanks a lot for the info!

- Jeff Carlson

gmojim Wrote:
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> NS has received the new units in Memphis, sent
> them to Chattanooga to be setup for service. Then
> the units were placed on BNSF empty coal trains in
> Sheffield AL or Chattanooga to be sent west for
> service on the RWSX Scherer coal trains.  NS owes
> BNSF a lot of horsepower hours.
>
> ​gmojim

Nice catches of the new units Jeff.  NS sure does look good when they are new and shiny clean like that.
Brian Stevens

Those new engines sure look sharp.

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