BNSF locomotives with HEP? - Trains Magazine

NP Eddie

CSS:  Silly me, I thought it would be a drop in like an S/G!  I was calling crews on the NP in 1968-1969 and the Road Foreman of Engines would have all the hostlers qualified to be passenger firemen.

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Ed Burns

CSX has the former Amtrak FDP40's as their Executive Power - that at least on Amtrak were equipped with HEP - I don't know if they are still equipped.  Observation of the recent CSX OCS's leads me to believe the car trailing the locomotive consist in most cases is a designated power car.

HEP is not a unlimited resource.  Amtrak's AutoTrain is restricted in the number of passenger cars it can operate by the amount of HEP power that the locomotive consist can generate.