Southern Pacific SD40T-2
| #8230 - 8341 | #8350 - 8391 | #8489 - 8573 |
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239 units delivered
229 units to SP
If your into nitpicky type details, I have a breakdown of the number series and their relevant features.
see also: Don Strack's SD40 Measure Up for some dimensional data
| Eight SD40T-2's made it into Kodachrome paint: | |||||||
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| 8286 | 8315 | 8351 | 8377 | 8521 | 8526 | 8530 | 8573 |
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| 8230 | 8237 | 8238 | |||||||
| 8252 | 8256 | ||||||||
| 8262 | 8268 | ||||||||
| 8271 | 8272 | 8276 | |||||||
| 8290 | 8294 | ||||||||
| 8300 | 8301 | 8304 | 8305 | 8306 | 8307 | 8308 | 8309 | ||
| 8310 | 8311 | 8312 | 8313 | 8315 | 8316 | ||||
| 8322 | 8325 | 8328 | |||||||
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| 8350 | 8351 | 8352 | 8353 | 8355 | 8356 | 8359 | |||
| 8361 | 8362 | 8363 | 8365 | 8366 | 8367 | ||||
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| 8384 | 8386 | ||||||||
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| 8490 | 8491 | 8492 | 8493 | 8494 | 8495 | 8496 | 8497 | ||
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| 8515 | 8517 | ||||||||
| 8520 | 8521 | 8524 | 8525 | 8527 | 8528 | ||||
| 8530 | 8533 | ||||||||
| 8541 | 8548 | 8549 | |||||||
| 8550 | 8557 | 8559 | |||||||
| 8560 | 8563 | 8564 | 8565 | 8566 | 8567 | 8568 | |||
| 8571 | 8573 | ||||||||
| Three photos of SP 8336 set up to take movies for an engineer training program. These three photos were taken at the Santa Fe depot in Flagstaff, AZ during the time when the SPSF merger was still brewing. These photos were taken in the dead of winter and the SP 8336 filmed from Flagstaff up to the Arizona Divide at Riordan. Unit was lashed up to AT&SF 5161 in merger colors. | 8336 |
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| Although UP officially states; it is not repainting any SP units with SP inspired paint - it sure looks like these are repainted... | |||||||||
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| © Alan Radecki. An 'atmospheric' shot of a SD40T-2 at sunrise, showing the trademark of the tunnel motors - the see-through area below the top mounted rear radiator section. |
SP Tunnel Motors came in many variations, short and long nose versions, with and without Locotrol, with and without exhaust silencers and bulged dynamic brake blisters, roof or underframe mounted bells and horn placement. (see table) and the photos.
Yunchi Hsaio recently brought to my attention that, there appears to be one order of short nose that received roof mounted bells, 8489 to 8498.
The post 1980 build Tunnel Motors came equipped with a 'Q' exhaust silencer to meet noise pollution requirements. This required a modified blister at the front of the dynamic brake, (I think for the dynamic brake contactors).
see here for detail shots of the modified dynamic brake blister: SD40T-2 Detail
References:
- SP 1987/88 Motive Power Pictorial by Joe.W.Shine, Page 110/111.
- SP.....into the '90's by Joe.W.Shine, Pages 174 - 177. Has more photo's of these units.
- SP 1995 Motive Power Annual by Bill Shippen - Four Ways West Publications.
- SP in Transition by Bill Shippen and Joe Shine - Four Ways West Publications.
- Southern Pacific Rails - a motive power finale by Peter Limas has a number of images and data concerning SP/SSW SD40T-2's.
N Scale information kindly submitted by Randall Jacobs.
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