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Slightly late to the party, General Electric introduced its first AC engine, the AC4400CW (shown elsewhere in this catalog) the same year, but production would not ramp up until a year later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1993 through 2004, when new environmental regulations produced the upgraded SD70ACe, EMD sold 1,109 SD70MACs. The largest fleets were and still are owned by BN (now BNSF), which ultimately bought over 800, and CSX, with over 200 purchased. In addition to AC traction, a big selling point of the SD70MAC, and the entire SD70 series, was its self-steering trucks, a feature GE could not match at the time. 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