Norfolk Southern tops 1,000 AC44C6Ms — and transforms its roster

Norfolk Southern tops 1,000 AC44C6Ms — and transforms its roster

Norfolk Southern AC44C6M No. 4463, the 1,000th unit in Wabtec’s rebuilding program, poses with a locomotive awaiting remanufacturing at Fort Worth, Texas, on Aug. 6, 2021. Ken Fitzgerald Norfolk Southern didn’t mind being late to the AC-traction party. And NS wasn’t just fashionably late, either. As Burlington Northern, Canadian Pacific, CSX, and Union Pacific gravitated toward AC locomotives in the mid 1990s, NS stuck with DC, saying it couldn’…