Canadian pacific has purchased a number of gp40x’s rebuilt with turbos removed but flares intact, saw some at st paul.
There were 23 GP40Xs built in 1977 and 1978. These were 3500 hp forerunners of the GP50. CP never had a 50 series locomotive. Union Pacific got 6, Southern Pacific got 4, Southern got 3 and the ATSF had the other 10. The UP and SP had the HT-B truck while the ATSF and Southern had Blomberg M trucks. Southern’s were built with high short hoods. SP’s had a L shaped front window. Do you know where CP got these ?
CP is calling these 7 units GP38-2 4520-4526
1 ex Southern GP50
3 ex UP GP40X
1 ex SP GP40X
2 ex Southern GP38
Coming from NRE.
Honest Bob’s Used Loco Lot.
1 mile West of Kapuskasing on Highway 11 (just near the airport)
Look for the sign of the flaming stack…
Beware of Imitations, Accept no Substitutes. Void where prohibited by Law
Hey! I think they’ve got a store in Ogden (Utah).
Bumping a very old thread to inquire about the fate of the two Union Pacific GP40X’s that weren’t rebuilt after UP retired them into GP38-2’s for CPR with Bloomberg trucks replacing their HT-B trucks.
One of the six was wrecked in 1997 and scrapped (The 956), leaving the 958 and 959 unaccounted for from the data that I have.
959 was briefely renumbered to 5055, and was sold to RELX. Both disappear in about mid 2001, when they were retired by UP. I can’t find disposition, likely either scrapped or sitting in the yard of a leaser.