But if you would like to pursue some relative information, do a google on this baby and get "mindboggled": Generous Electric, ES44AC, Currently run by BNSF (Burlington Northern-Santa Fe) AC traction motors, 4400 HP. Or the competing GM (ElectroMotive Division) who being the industry leader for many years, if you asked me, got left in the smoke and mirrors when GE decided to get into railroad business: SD70ACe, AC traction motors also and a paltry 4300 HP, and also in the BNSF corral.
BNSF Bringing the NE territory of Burlington Northern together with the S-SW territory of the Santa Fe routes made for good coverage of the US. They like to use them on those coal trains from the Dakotas that seem to be a mile long. Houston (TX.) power and light uses coal from up there as I recall and I have passed them on US 69 in my neighborhood and the cars just keep coming...seem to be no end.
Both are in N Scale in my 41 engine model train layouts primarily in Illinois Central for the "City of New Orleans" theme, and for the Santa Fe theme the connectivity from the heartland to the West coast passenger services and current activities like coal moving and such. Course a lot of rail traffic of today is containerized from the West coast and those babies go on forever if you ever tried to pass one while driving on I 10 or such.
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