Glad to see her preserved. I had the luck of shooting it a few times in Western Canada when it slipped across the border.
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| Posted by SSW8089 on September 19, 2010 | |
Please paint me GM&O.
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For those too young to remember, this first SD40X was painted in a Santa Fe-like, pre-warbonnet, blue and yellow scheme, with no lettering except for a sans serif road number on its cab sides. Subsequent test beds, 434A-434H, and GP40X 433A, were solid black with white cabside numerals. Although the nine SD40X units, and the lone GP40X, were built on shorter 35-line frames, the 434, 434G and 434H, did not have the flared radiators. Union Pacific acquired all of the other SD40X units, while the Illinois Central got the one GP model. Regardless of the paint scheme chosen, restoration of this locomotive will also require the return of its dynamic brake equipment.
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