Western Railroad Discussion > "hearing a well worn SD40 creak across a wood trestle "

with 2012 just about in the bag & another round of 2013 vacation bids looming, i've spent the better part of today on trainorders.com dreaming about a return trip to western canada. amidst revisiting many old posts i had remembered, i stumbled upon a post by user tsokolan entitled "cn work train on a big bridge". it wasn't a post that i immediately remembered and after viewing the content i can't believe i missed it the first time around.
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?15,2779540,2779540#msg-2779540
one line in the text struck a chord with me, "i never get tired of hearing a well worn sd40 creak across a wood trestle!"....and along the rails of a trestle like that who could blame him!
i couldn't help but be reminded of this scene, one of many i was able to capture of the ex southern pacific branch line trestle across kellogg creek in milwaukie oregon, now operated by the p&w...before construction of the now adjacent trimet light rail line came into the picture. of note, the lead locomotive 3052 is also ex sp.
you thought a well worn sd40 sounded good trevor, how about two!!

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Could the first one be a SD-45.

Thats one nice photo.

usmc1401 Wrote:
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> Could the first one be a SD-45.


it "could" be, but for the sake of this post...they are both sd40-'s.

Nice! The SD45 is my favorite EMD diesel, and I'll bet they sounded pretty good creeping over that trestle!
-Trevor

Both started out as SD45s fron the flared radiators. May be reduced to 3000 hp making them '40s' for the owner.

Great Pic!

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

As a PNW transplant originally from NW Indiana, I miss hearing the EJ&E's many SD40-2s chugging along through Griffith, IN.

abn1 Wrote:
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> As a PNW transplant originally from NW Indiana, I
> miss hearing the EJ&E's many SD40-2s chugging
> along through Griffith, IN.

EJ&E didn't own any SD40-2's - smaller SD38's

dcfbalcoS1 Wrote:
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> Both started out as SD45s fron the flared
> radiators. May be reduced to 3000 hp making them
> '40s' for the owner.


Yes, both have 16 cyl motors now.

photobob Wrote:
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> Thats one nice photo.

Agree completely, what an Awesome shot!

Looking at that trestle, it's hard to believe it can hold up 200 ton diesels. I'd be nervous.

Beautiful!!

Walter Johnson

NICE pic!!!