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1/15/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Norfolk Southern
Model:EMD SD70M-2Built As:NS 2701 (SD70M-2)
Serial Number:20056710-1Order No:20056710
Frame Number:20056710-1Built:2/2006
Notes:Reactivated by NS
Other locos with this serial:  NS 2701(SD70M-2)
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Big power for a local
Title:  Big power for a local
Description:  NS was not shy about putting top of the line power on locals and switch jobs. Where CR was using GP 38s and B23s on their locals, and later GP 40s, NS almost always had C40-8s assigned. It was fun watching a six axle GE working the Agway mill on somewhat shaky rail, or down the Vestal Spur, though they did ultimately do some serious track rehab on it around 2003. Here we have a pair of six axles on H 88, a turn job from Gang Mills to Binghamton, with mostly NYSW interchange. The leader is one of the thousand C40's on NS, but the trailing unit is an almost new SD70M-2, a unit youd more typically expect on 206.
Photo Date:  3/6/2006  Upload Date: 9/16/2016 1:33:31 AM
Location:  Endicott, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  NS 9759(C40-9W) NS 2701(SD70M-2)
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Deadlined
Title:  Deadlined
Description:  In poking my way around Chattanooga, I found myself looking at the dead line in Debutts Yard late in the afternoon. It was kind of strange seeing power I thought of as "new" already heading to rebuild, or the torch, including these SD 70M-2s, that seemed to have had a short life on NS. Several did find their way to the NYSW.
Photo Date:  11/24/2024  Upload Date: 1/7/2025 6:42:25 AM
Location:  Chattanooga, TN
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  NS 2701(SD70M-2) NS 2725(SD70M-2) NS 2765(SD70M-2) NS 5668(GP38-2) NS 3398(SD40-2) NS 5263(GP38-2) NS 5297(GP38-2) NS 5345(GP38-2)
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