Do any of the rebuilt UP SD45’s (now classed as SD40-2’s), handed down from such railroads as Rio Grande and Southern Pacific (and esp. the former CNW ones, w/o DB! ) still have their 20 cylinder 645’s? Or have been swapped for conservative (and less problematic) 16 cylinder ones?
Before the T-2’s, RG did have SD45’s. A few days ago, I saw UP 2754, after looking it up at home later, it rostered out to be the former Rio Grande 5319, built in January of 1967.
One of us is misunderstanding the other. Yes, DRGW did have SD45s. However, DRGW did not have these rebuilt as SD40-2s, SP sold them, eighter directly to the rebuilding company or to a leasing company and they wound up being sold to the rebuilder, they were rebuilt and sold or leased to UP. DRGW had SD40T-2s, not SD45T-2s.
I know they never had SD45T-2’s. Anyways, after SP took control of Rio Grande, it was one of a massive fleet of SD45’s rebuilt by MK, to a SD40M-2 I believe. According to this site, http://www.trainweb.org/mcnwr/spsd40m2datasheet.html , it was rebuilt on November 18, 1994.
Okay, then I should have said, “One of us is misunderstanding the other. Yes, DRGW did have SD45s. However, DRGW did not have these rebuilt as SD40-2s, SP sold them, eighter directly to the rebuilding company or to a leasing company and they wound up being sold to the rebuilder, they were rebuilt and sold or leased to SP.”
DRGW SD45s did get rebuilt as SD40-2s, however none were DRGW locomotives when they were rebuilt, that is what I was refering to. The fact that a few of SP’s SD40-2s from MK were former DRGW locomotives is just a coincidence.
