Eastern Railroad Discussion > DW&P is now dead

The last DW&P locomotive SD40 5905 was retired yesterday 1/30/06 along with GTW 5913.

GTW 5925 is the last operating survivor of the 5900-5929 series and it was westbound on UP at Yuma, AZ this morning so it should be safe for a few days, though CN has been "retiring" these while they are stilll enroute to a particular point for removal from service.

What about GTW 5933? It was in Flat Rock, MI, last night. Might have been dead but I couldn't tell.

AJB
X315

May we have a moment of Silence for all of the DWP units, that have been retired.

Telus6429
Ian
Windsor, Ontario
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GTW 5930-5937 are not SD40's, they are ex MoPac SD40-2's.

Here is the 5925 20 days ago in Henderson, Nevada.
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1077092,1077093#msg-1077093

I wonder whay they haven't assigned DWP reporting marks to any of the rebuilds they acquired, like the Alstom units that got GTW and WC reporting marks?

Dave

Hello Dave, I was wondering the same thing. If there is some sort of tax advantage to initialing locomotives DWP it will happen. We have the GTW 5938-5956 SD40-3 rebuilds, and the WC 6900-6949 SD40-3 rebuilds. None of them are actually assigned to the sub-lettered railroad. It must be for some type of financial gain.
gtw1516

MRL_F45 Wrote:
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> I wonder whay they haven't assigned DWP reporting
> marks to any of the rebuilds they acquired, like
> the Alstom units that got GTW and WC reporting
> marks?
>
> Dave

Has anyone here ever ridden on the D & WP as a train crew or a rider on an excursion? I was wondering what the scenery was like.

Dave

Here is the 5935 "MP3180" the Gilman Local at Champaign IL last March.

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