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SD40T-2 No. 5347 -- Nov. 1991, leading a unit coal train with 9 units, about to enter Tunnel 1. No, the hill's not really this steep!
This unit is featured in my
Detailed Photos
section.The 5347 was retired on 11/28/01.
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Top: SD40T-2 No. 5348 -- leading a hot freight at Coal Creek (July 1986). This unit is also pictured in the SD50 section, coupled to #5506.
Bottom: No. 5348 at Denver's North Yard (west side) in November
1990. It's in the middle of a road consist, preparing to hook onto a
westbound train.
The 5348 was wrecked on Nov 22, 1994 at Pando, along with fellow Tunnel Motor #5370.
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SD40T-2 No. 5350 --
Dec. 1991, leading a unit coal train (with 8 units) down the front range, about to enter Tunnel 1.
This unit is featured in my
Detailed Photos
section. The 5350 was repainted into Southern Pacific colors prior to the UP merger. Since then it has been repainted again, as Union Pacific #8609.
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Three views of SD40T-2
No. 5352 -- repainted into Southern Pacific colors prior to the UP merger, this unit was photographed at Campbellton, TX on the rainy afternoon of 3/23/2001.
This unit, and other repaints of the SP era, originally had a small "D&RGW" caption under the cab numbers.
By 2001 they are gone from the 5352.
The 5352 was renumbered to UP 8610 10/8/01, retired 12/26/01, and went to a scrapper 4/15/02.
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SD40T-2 No. 5355. Brad Hoeme photo.
The 5355 was repainted into Union Pacific colors and numbered 4043, then renumbered 8613.
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SD40T-2 No. 5356 leads two fellow Tunnel Motors and a GP30 (not visible) out of Coal Creek canyon, Thanksgiving Day 1982.
The 5356 was patched to
UP8614 on 1/10/03, then renumbered as UP7877 around 10/20/03. |
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SD40T-2 No. 5357 leads five tunnel motors towards Price, east of Soldier Summit, in April 1998.
Note the box on the nose where the lights used to be. (Dennis Walts photo)
The 5357 was renumbered to UP 8615 on 12/28/99.
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SD40T-2's 5358 and 5362-- Four Tunnel Motors and an SD45 are exiting Coal Creek with the CSDPU unit train, bound for Colorado Springs, in April of 1984.
Both of these units now wear UP colors, as # 4046 and 4049, respectively.
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SD40T-2 No. 5359 --
Aug. 18, 1996 running second on a coal train, at Cotopaxi,
CO. An access door is open, showing a fire extinguisher.
This unit was repainted in UP colors on 4/20/99 as # 4047, and renumbered later to # 8617
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SD40T-2 # 5364 -- Aug. 1996, at Cotopaxi, CO. with a coal train.
This was three weeks prior to the UP merger. The power for this train
consisted of three Rio Grande tunnel motors and one EMD lease SD40-2. You
can see more photos here.
This unit was repainted and renumbered as UP # 4051, as of 9/20/1999, renumbered to 8621, and as of 28 Dec 2001 wears #2893.
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Top: SD40T-2 No. 5365 on Nov. 20, 1991 at Tunnel 1 (same train as
the 5347 shot). There were 9 units on this coal train: 4-3-2. This one is part of the
swing helper (mid-train set).
Bottom:
July 20, 1994 in the fog at the same location, but facing the other way. It was
running as swing help, in tandem with EMD SD70M demonstrator # 7000, on the
eastbound CSUX train.
The 5365 was patched as UP 8622 on 5/07/02.
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SD40T-2 No. 5366 and SD50 No. 5515 are the lead two units of a four-unit swing helper pushing at
Glenwood Springs, CO
on June, 1995. The other two
units were a speed-lettered ex-SSW SD45T-2 and a SP SD40M. The 5366 was
smoking up a storm on this day! The 5366 has repainted into Union Pacific colors and renumbered 4053 on 12/12/97, and later renumber to # 8623.
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The former
D&RGW No. 5369, now
UP No. 4056, sits third in an eastbound consist in the yard at Tucson, AZ on 3/31/2000. For a fairly recent repaint job, the upper stripe is in pretty poor shape!
It looks like the Mars light is gone, but the horn is still over the cab.
Shortly afterwards, it was renumbered to #8626. Here it is seen with a westbound rail train at Coal Creek Canyon on August 14, 2001.
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No.
5371 at Rocky, running second on the MRODV train on 11/25/2000. Horn is moved, class lights and Mars light gone, but looking good nonetheless.
She also appears on my
Helper page.
As things turned out, this would be the last active D&RGW unit not
repainted or renumbered by Union Pacific. In a last-minute reprieve,
UP decided to keep her in her original paint until retirement. In 2008 she
finally left for Cheyenne, where her fate is yet undetermined.
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Top: SD40T-2's No. 5376 and 5373 are the swing helper on an eastbound PSC unit coal train at Tolland, CO.
on
Nov. 22, 1994.
Bottom: No. 5376, about two years later, at Cotopaxi, CO
(8/18/96).
The 5373 was patched to UP8628 (6/27/01), and retired 8/29/01.
The 5376 was patched to 8631 10/30/01
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SD40T-2 No. 5381-- Viewed in North Yard, Denver in the summer of 1997. Steve Walden photo.
The 5381 was repainted into Union Pacific colors and renumbered 4065, then to 8635.
SD40T-2 No. 5381. This is how it looked in UP paint as # 4065. Brad Hoeme photo.
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SD40T-2 No.
5385 leading the MRODV at Rocky on 11/25/00. The Mars light gone, but the patch has been re-striped, and it's looking good.
The 5385 was patched as UP 8638 on 12/08/01.
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 No. 5390,
in Helper on November 10, 2001. The usual Espee modifications are evident.
Multiple other views can be found
here. Three other tunnel motors are also included.
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SD40T-2 No. 5392 is westbound at Tucson, AZ on
March 12, 1995.
It's got ditch lights, relocated horns, and SP-style number boards.
The 5392 was retired on 2/27/01.
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SD40T-2 No. 5393 leads
five SD's on a long westbound drag at
East Pinecliffe on
7/21/94.
The 5393 was repainted into Southern Pacific colors prior to the UP merger,
and renumbered to UP 8586 on 8/29/01.
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SD40T-2 No. 5395, seen Nov. 20, 1991 at Tunnel 1. You can see the external low-nose headlight box.
This unit is featured in my
Detailed Photos
section. The 5395 was repainted into Union Pacific colors and renumbered 4018, then renumbered to 8588 on 3/26/1999.
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 No. 5401, on
November 10, 2001 in Helper, Utah.
Multiple other views can be found
here. Three other tunnel motors are also included.
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SD40T-2 No. 5403 is surrounded by SP units but on home rails at
Cotopaxi, CO on
Aug 17, 1996 The 5403 was repainted into Union Pacific colors and renumbered 8595 on 12/1/1999.
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Top: SD40T-2 No. 5404 is running second on
the westbound Z train
(priority intermodal), doing 70 mph alongside I-70 just east of
Parachute. (8/11/99)
Bottom:
Here's another look. You can see she still carries her nose lights, though the horn has been moved to the long hood.
The 5404 was retired at North Little Rock on 6/03/2000,
sold by UP in December 2001, and last seen in East St. Louis, missing parts (Jan
2006).
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SD40T-2 Nos. 5405 and 5351, SD45 No. 5316, and tunnel motors 5362
and 5358, are with the CSUX unit train at Coal Creek, April 8,1984.
The 5405 was retired on 2/27/2001.
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Top:
SD40T-2 No. 5413, the highest-numbered tunnel motor, in the siding at Silt with a dead manifest train on 8/3/98.
Bottom: The opposite side is seen here, from across Interstate
70. The 5413 was retired on 12/19/01, and subsequently sold to the Wheeling & Lake Erie, where it currently retains its original paint.
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