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2/13/2024
CSX and Wabtec Corp. announced today they've signed an agreement calling for more than 200 locomotives to be modernized with new digital solutions, innovations and services.
The agreement will transform the remaining AC4400 locomotives in CSX’s fleet, providing improved fuel efficiency, reliability, utilization and tractive effort, according to a joint Wabtec and CSX press release.
"The upgrades will improve asset reliability allowing us to move more freight with fewer locomotives, which also will help reduce our carbon emissions footprint," said CSX Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Cory.
The modernized locomotives will feature Wabtec hardware innovations, such as the FDL Advantage engine upgrade, and digital solutions like LOCOTROL® Expanded Architecture. Those technologies will enable the locomotives to deliver up to 8% fuel savings and carbon reduction, Wabtec officials said.
It's Wabtec’s goal for CSX’s total order to realize 35,000 tons in annual carbon reductions. Achieving those reductions would be the equivalent of removing emissions from nearly 8,000 passenger cars per year, according to Wabtec.
Additionally, the modernizations will extend the locomotives’ lives for several more years. The project also aims to increase reliability by up to 35% and tractive effort by up to 14%.
Wabtec will perform the modernization work at its U.S. plants this year through 2028.