GE C40-8W
The GE C40-8W is a diesel loco from the United States in Train Sim World. Another DLC brings it to 4 routes.
Picture: CSX C40-8W, Dovetail Games.
Where you can drive it
With another DLC
Own the route and one of the DLCs named after it, and you can drive it there.
In the game
Names in Dovetail's lists: C40-8W, C40-8W YN2, CSX C40-8W YN2.
In these DLCs: CSX C40-8W, Santa Fe on Cajon Pass.
From Dovetail's store page
- GE C40-8W Diesel Locomotive in CSX YN2 livery
The real thing
A six-axle diesel-electric freight locomotive built by GE from 1989 to 1994, part of its Dash 8 Series. Often called the C40-8W, it differs from the earlier Dash 8-40C in its newer wide "safety" cab.
- Built by: GE Transportation Systems (Wikipedia)
- Built: 1989 – 1994 (Wikipedia)
- Number built: 1,531 (Wikipedia)
- Operators: See table (Wikipedia)
- Top speed: 70 mph (113 km/h) (Wikipedia)
- Power: 4000 hp (2,983 kW), some uprated to 4100 hp (3,057 kW), some uprated to 4,135 HP (Wikipedia)
- Wheel arrangement: C-C (Wikipedia)
- Power type: Diesel-electric (Wikipedia)
Photo: terry cantrell, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
From the English Wikipedia article GE Dash 8-40CW and Wikidata.
Sources. Dovetail's public DLC database and Steam store pages; English Wikipedia and Wikidata for the real train.