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Nine of twelve X-NS High-Nose SD40s, purchased by WATCO, have arrived in Wichita. They are all X-N&W. The three remaing units, yet to arrive, are X-Southern.
Big Motors have arrived. One of 12 X-NS SD40's purchased by WATCO, this particular unit is the X-N&W 1609, delivered new in June 1966. With some tender care and minor modifications it will soon be traveling the prairies of Kansas and Oklahoma. One change, the short hood has been designated...
CSXT SD40 4617 still in C&0 paint has been assigned to CSXT'S Boyles Terminal in Tarrant City, Al. in yard service after having been assigned to Cumberland, Md. for several years
Today when GE ES44DCs have taken over CN, while SD40-2s & SD50Fs are being retired in droves, its hard to believe that earlier this year CN was still leasing 50 Alstom SD40-3s, all ex-CN SD40s. Power policy sure changed quickly!
Back in 2004 I managed to catch three trio sets working the...
As late as 2006 CN was still running SD40s on everything from manifests & grain trains, to coal and Intermodal Sadly they were unofficially limited to trailing only, a shame as in the East they led until the end. I managed to catch all the Winnipeg based units just before retirement: 5055...
The long line of CN SD40's ended with 5240, seen here at Calder yard Edmonton Alberta. It was built in 12/71. The next loco in the number sequence was a "Canadian Cab" SD40-2
I found CN 5000 sitting all alone at McBride B.C. August 15, 1976. It (her/he/whatever gender you want to assign it!) was built 9/67 and was the first of CN's fleet of SD40's.
CP SD40-2 leads an intermodal eastbound through the Thompson Canyon BC. Note the white flags & white marker lights denoting the train as an extra movement.
This is a replacement illustration, first one was far too dark. Led by SD40-2 No. BNSF8060 a lash of Nos. BNSF6878, BN3188, BN3142, BN3153, BN3123, BN3187 head towards the Narrows from Frost, California with an eastbound manifest on 25 April 2003. 17.00Hrs.
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