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This morning I saw PRLX engines working a baretable along Cajon Blvd. The number were 3003 and 3005. They look like SD40-2's with a ACe radiator and they're marked PR30C's?

Dave Toussaint
Riverside, CA
SoCalRailFan.com

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BNSF's latest purchases...

BNSF has purchased four of Progress Rail's (6) PR30C locomotives. These units have been around for a few years now painted (mostly) in UP dress, and have been leased to the UP as part of a test program. The leases were completed recently, and the BNSF has now picked them up. PRLX 3002 has already been repainted in BNSF's H3 dress... http://www.westcoastrailforums.com/thread-7071-post-72084.html

The PR30Cs were built off existing SD40-2 locomotive frames,

PRLX 3001, ex UP 3816, ex MKT 607 ~ (still back east, owned by Progress Rail)
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=122012

PRLX 3002, ex SOO 763 ~ (now BNSF 1320)
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=417959

PRLX 3003, ex CP 5818 ~ (soon to be BNSF 1321)
PRLX 3004, ex CP 5603 ~ (soon to be BNSF 1322)
PRLX 3005, ex CP 5647 ~ (soon to be BNSF 1323)

PRLX 3006, ex CP ???? ~ (now PHL 40)
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/Locopicture.aspx?id=159608


Mr. MRL



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/12 22:31 by MrMRL.

I'm pretty sure BNSF just bought those.

Pump

Edit: Yeah, what MrMRL said, LOL.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/12 12:04 by UPTRAIN.

Sort of a homecoming, but returning on a different railroad.

Here's a thread to get started on past sightings in SoCal. The PR30C's were frequently seen couple of years ago at West Colton:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,2347910

But what the heck are they? I think there's another one I saw in the yard at SB too.

Dave Toussaint
Riverside, CA
SoCalRailFan.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Rail_PR30C

Progress Rail rebuilds using SD40-2 cores. They have been around for quite a few years.

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I think thy are rebuilt tunnel motors from S.P. long ago.
Any way my $2 worth.......snoopy51

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> I think thy are rebuilt tunnel motors
> from S.P. long ago.
> Any way my $2 worth.......snoopy51


Your $2 isn't worth much. Check the second post in this thread.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^