[RayChuang88]

BNSF just in the last few months took delivery of the first EPA Tier 4 certified diesel-electric locomotives from GE Transportation Systems (I believe they are the newest Evolution ES44DC models assembled at a recently-opened plant near Fort Worth, TX). They're so new I don't think they've left Texas yet, the last I heard.

They have quite different-looking cooling radiators from previous Evolution ES44DC locomotives from the pictures I've seen. And they are supposed to have the very latest emission control systems (certainly a state-of-the-art DPF).

[factoryrat]

The railroad that I work for has the GE tier 4 ES44AC locomotives running freight now, most of them coming out of the new texas plant.

Plus, some of of the older ES44AC’s in our fleet are being refitted with the tier 4 EVO common rail FI engines.

As an aside, the transition from Erie, PA. to Texas seems to have caused some build reliability issues. We’ve been keeping the local GE service rep busy lately with warranty claims.