Nostalgia & History > LMX B39-8 8500 Ready for Train 01-262-05

General Electric built 145 B39-8E units from 1984-1988. They featured the common Dash-8 style cab. BN used 102 LMX B39-8E's and SP had 40 units. Many B39-8E's still serve in lease fleets and on various shortlines.

B39-8s were ATSF 7400 to 7402
LMX 8500 to 8599
SP 8000 to 8039

LMX 8500 was at BNSF's Denver Locomotive Shop, Denver, CO, January 5, 1996 with B30-7A getting ready for train 01-262-05. The crews considered them rough riders. Any comments from TO-members on their riding qualities?

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Lousy!

cozephyr Wrote:

> General Electric built 145 B39-8E units from
> 1984-1988. They featured the common Dash-8 style
> cab. BN used 102 LMX B39-8E's and SP had 40 units.
> Many B39-8E's still serve in lease fleets and on
> various shortlines.

Just for reference, the builders plates on both the "pre-production" ATSF units and the later LMX units said just B39-8. The "E" has been credited to Extra 2200 South's Don Dover.