Canadian Railroads > SD40 Sunday

SD40s were still pretty common on CN and its US subsidiaries 25 years ago, although they would become rebuild fodder before long.

On October 19, 1997 I found Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific SD40 5906 at the Fairview roundhouse, just in after arriving overnight on a train. 

Later that morning I captured CN 5003 over in Dartmouth, one of the few SD40s on CN that came from GMD with dynamic brakes.  It appears to be sandwiched between a couple SD40-2Ws, probably the gypsum power, since October 19th was a Sunday and 701/703 didn't run on weekends back then.

Back at Fairview in the afternoon, non-DB 5063 was being assembled into a consist to go out that night.  In the background lurks SD75I 5690, ready to take the SD40s' place as premiere power on the railway.  For a few years a common power consist for CN's 5000-ft., 5000-ton trains into and out of Halifax was the pairing of an SD75I and SD40 variant, providing enough power to get the train over the road reliably.

GTD

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