With the overly wet winter in Northern California just about over, CDTX 2103, a new Siemens SC-44 Charger awaiting service on the Capital Corridor and San Joaquin lines, sits quietly in the private car storage tracks to the south of the yard as it bathes in the morning light while Siemens personnel work on electrical components inside the cab.
Tier IV locomotives are the safest, cleanest, and most fuel efficient locomotives on the rails today. Unfortunately, most of them are ugly and are as quiet as an ACS-64.
