#SD40-2

[unpopularvivian]

Somewhere on the CSX Railroad

SD40-2: What are you doing in my shed? WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SHED!?

Gevo: I want waffle fries! Random crap the gevo says!

Gevo: *Humming to himself as he passes a EMD* Bitch.

Gevo: A 70 Ton switcher broke into my shed and started looking for money! So I started looking with him! Ha! I'm broke as shit!

DOWT Dummy Unit: And remember children, life goes on! Gevo in the distance: Yeah! That's the problem! DOWT Dummy unit: Will somebody shut him up!?

Gevo: The internet is a horrible place and i'm here to make it worse.

0-8-0: Look, boxcab I was never any good at math but let's get this over with. If Gevo has 19 bottles of dish soap-

Boxcab: Why does Gevo have so much soap-

Gevo: MIND YO BUSINESS BOXCAB! THIS IS MY LIFE! DAMN!

Gevo: *Walking towards a EMD holding a gun and singing* I'm gonna make you wish that I'd stayed GONE-

Gevo: No, I will not elaborate. I have no idea what the hell I just said.

Gevo: *Singing with another gun approaching another EMD* Your never fully dressed, without a smiiiiiiiiiiiiile!

Gevo: Oh SD40! I came up with a cool game idea! It's called hide and seek! I hide, and you seek profesional help.

Slug unit: Listen here creeper, you don't know all about me! I have a lot of hidden talents! Gevo: Well they must be very well hidden if you can't even find them!

Gevo: Hey EMD's! You should clean your messy rooms so your the only trash remaining!

Gevo: Started from the bottom, and somehow managed to get even lower.

Heritage unit: Let me tell you SD40, I am loving these balconies! Gevo: Would you like a push?

Heritage unit: What-

Gevo: When i was young, I was poor. But after many years of struggle, I'm no longer young!

Gevo: Cheese is just a loaf of milk.

Gevo: Your the reason I smile! Because your such a joke.

Gevo: Kids these days screaming in public with no real problems. I'm the one who should be screaming!

Gevo: Always remember to believe in yourself! If you don't, who will? I know I sure wont!

Gevo: Don't break somebody's heart, they only have one of those. Break their bones! they have 206 of those bad boys!

Gevo: If someone hates you for no reason, give them a reason!

Gevo: Being happy is like wetting the bed! It hasn't happened since I was three!

Gevo: I'm calling it now, Slug unit is going to become stupid rich! Slug unit: wait, really? Gevo: Of course, your already stupid so your halfway there! Slug unit: You son of a-!

*Back on Sodor*

Rosie: My old railroad just got a new employee who started recording shit and uploading it to a youtube channel.

Emily: How did that go? Rosie: It's just fucking weird.

Emily: Can I see it?

Rosie: Ummmm...I don't know if that's good for your braincells and sanity.

Emily: Well, I mean. It can't be that bad!

*After watching the video*

Emily: ......

Emily: Can I just call a priest?

Emily: And just let them waterboard the living shit out of me?

Emily: Because I really need it....

[collinthenychudson]

Heading across the lush landscape of the American Northwestern region, Burlington Northern F45 No. 6628, SD40-2 No. 7065 and C30-7 No. 5505 are seen hauling a flatcar train East to Chicago, Illinois.

Models and Route by: Jointed Rail, Auran, and Download Station

[zponds]

What-If: American Railroads — EMD SD40-2

One locomotive I’ve been thinking about regarding the alternate history of the American railroads is one of EMD’s most iconic locomotives; the…

EMD SD40-2

Now in the current timeline, 8 of the 20 railroads actually had SD40-2 diesels (and some still do), and those 8 railroads are…

Union Pacific

Milwaukee Road

Chicago & Northwestern

Southern Pacific

Missouri Pacific

Rock Island

Norfolk & Western

and…

Santa fe

Now what I’ve been thinking about regarding this iconic freight diesel locomotive in the alternative railroad history is the liveries the SD40-2 diesels would have under ownership of the other American railroads like the New York Central, Chesapeake & Ohio, Northern Pacific, Burlington Route and so on.

New York Central — It’d be very common for Central’s SD40-2 diesels to have the cigar band livery, given that they’re freight diesels. They can have the lightning stripe livery, but it’s very rare to see an SD40-2 with that livery and are usually spared for special rail events.

Pennsylvania Railroad — The Pennsy’s SD40-2 diesels would have the Brunswick green body or the Tuscan red body, with both bodies having yellowish gold “Pennsylvania” on the sides with the PRR keystone logo on the noses and rears.

Chesapeake & Ohio — Most of C&O’s SD40-2’s come in the same C&O livery as seen on C&O’s older GP30 diesles (like #3032). While some are in the same C&O livery as seen on C&O’s older E8 diesels, though SD40-2’s in that livery is a rare sight and reserved for special events.

Baltimore & Ohio — Most of Baltimore & Ohio’s SD40-2’s would come in the dark Royal Blue with yellow lettering and a yellow sill stripe, often called “dip scheme”; a common B&O livery for B&O freight locomotives, as seen on the B&O GP7’s and GP40’s. Some B&O SD40-2’s can have the livery as seen on B&O E units, but it’s very rare to see one in such livery.

Northern Pacific — Half of Northern Pacific’s SD40-2’s have the Pine Tree livery. The other half have the same NP livery as seen on NP’s older U25c diesels.

Burlington Route — Half of Burlington Route’s SD40-2 diesels have the Blackbird Scheme (as seen on the older CB&Q’s GP20 diesels) while the other half have the Redbird scheme (as seen on the older GP30 diesels).

Illinois Central — Most of Illinois Central’s SD40-2’s would come in the IC Black livery, making them pop out against other SD40-2’s from other railroad companies, especially with the "Deathstar" logo On the noses of Illinois Central’s SD40-2. Though some other IC SD40-2’s come in the same gray and black livery as seen on IC E8 #101.

Gulf Mobile & Ohio — Half of Gulf Mobile & Ohio’s SD40-2’s come in the GM&O red/white scheme (as seen on GM&O GP38-2 #742) while the other half would have the maroon and red with gold pin-striping livery (as seen on GM&O GP30 #512), paying homage to the GM&O’s early diesel days in the late 40s.

Southern Railway — Many of the SOU’s SD40-2’s have a dark green color with a white band and a good stripe, called the Virginia Green livery, and this livery was used on the Crescent Limited. Another SOU livery that the rest of SOU’s SD40-2’s have is the same SOU livery as seen on SOU’s GP7 diesels.

Seaboard Air Line — Half of the Seaboard Air Line’s SD40-2’s would have the "Jolly Green Giant" livery (as seen on SAL GP40 #626 for example) while the other half would have the — (as seen on the older SAL E4A #3002 for example).

Atlantic Coast Line — Some of Atlantic Coast Line’s SD40-2’s come in the ACL’s iconic “Royal Purple” livery. Most others of ACL’s SD40-2’s come in the

Great Northern — Great Northern SD40-2’s have the Empire Builder livery, like the earlier E units and F unites as the Empire Builder livery is the most associated livery of the Great Northern Railway. Though on very rare occasions, GN SD40-2’s have the Big Sky Blue livery.

Side note: a good number of Union Pacific’s SD40-2’s have the Greyhound livery, though it’s a rare sight and those are saved for special occasions like rain excursions. And half of Norfolk & Western’s SD40-2’s have the pelver blue livery as well as the older red livery and black livery (all with yellow writing).

[briansolomonauthor]

CSX Local Freight Along the Hudson

Road switchers are designed for bi-directional operation. When I was younger, EMD’s running long-hood forward annoyed me. These days, I think its pretty cool to find a single SD40-2 operating long-hood first. Last week, we saw CSX 8400 leading a local freight along the River Line in New York’s Hudson River Valley. I made this sequence of images from the Mine Dock Park near Ft…

[tronmike82]

Spotted bnsf locos 1667 & 1618 (both SD40-2s) double-heading a short freight train through El Mirage, Arizona. The last couple cars were empty bulkhead flatcars, which leads me to believe they were bringing an empty train back to the yard after dropping off their freight.

[hotrailproductions]

Illinois Central EMD SD40-2 DEATHSTAR on CN at Wellsboro, IN

[graintrainbrain]

A Canadian Pacific freight train led by CP 5756 works its way along the Minnedosa subdivision, passing a handcar and restored CP caboose No. 431970 on display in Minnedosa's Tanner's Crossing Park, Manitoba, 10/04/1976. Photo by Ken Perry via Railpictures.ca

[trainmaniac]

Bicentennial Display by NAPM Model Railroad Club Via Flickr: Eight locomotives in bicentennial liveries assemble for a special event in NAPM's Ottawa yard in 1975. This photo was inspired by an iconic prototype photo taken by Trains magazine at the Belt Railway of Chicago's 87th Street yard; it was taken during a special NAPM photo session featuring 22 member-owned bicentennial locomotives. Photo by Mark Mathu. Visit the HO scale NAPM club on-line at www.napmltd.org.

[20th-century-railroading]

Grinding around Breezy Point by Mike Danneman Via Flickr: Four Burlington Northern GE C30-7s pull hard on a PSCX coal train rounding Breezy Point west of Belmont, Nebraska, on the climb over Crawford Hill on July 7, 1996. In the background on the other side of the horseshoe curve is the end of the train and a helper set of three EMD SD40-2 and a fuel tender.

[rawrrpurruwurawr]

I found another locomotive!

8647's Southern Pacific! The lettering on the side is called Speed Lettering and is a really good logo of the Southern Pacific!

What's special about 8647???

The story is that these are rebuilt EMD SD40M-2's, because EMD couldn't make enough SD40-2's for Southern Pacific specifically, so Southern Pacific bought up every SD40 and similar locomotive that they could find from every other railroad that had them! Then a quick rebuilding program!

8647 was a bone-stock and underpowered EMD SD40, Union Pacific 3098 but we don't deadname her, transitions with gender affirming care into the strong, fully-upgraded SD40M-2 with a sharp scarlet and grey suit and the handsome Southern Pacific speed lettering! And a new number! 8647!

As the years wore on 8647 kept running strong and hard!

8647 put on a little light grey on the sides for that distinguished look!

8647 on a train!

8647 all day long!

[guerrerense]

2024 Year in Review: January por Brian D Plant Por Flickr: On a snowy Sunday morning, Susquehanna SD40-2 3022 leads the way through Homer, New York with the twice-weekly road train from New Jersey. It’s all second generation EMD six-axles on today’s power set with a former N&W high-hood SD40 leading a former SP SD40T-2, BN SD45 and finally an SD40-2 originally built as a high-hood Southern Railway.

[codumofr]

La Diesel-Electrique "British Rail Class 08". Membre des locomotives Diesel Electric, elle est construite par la British Railway et d’autre manufactures en 996 exemplaires de 1952 à 1962. Elle sera équipée d'un moteur de 350 ou 400 ch pour une vitesse oscillant entre 24 km/h à 32 km/h. Introduite en 1952 elle deviendra familière de nombreuses grandes stations de voyages et de stations de marchandises. La nature du trafic ferroviaire britannique changera considérablement avec l’apparition des trains de marchandise qui seront désormais à rames fixes tandis que les wagons de passagers seront à unité multiple. En 2020, 100 de ses locomotives ont été reconditionnées et réparées pour être utilisées à côté des rails principaux de la British Railway. Cette locomotive est mise en mouvement par un 6KT membre de la famille des English Electric diesel engines. Il utilise aussi une aspiration naturelle dans son fonctionnement et sera construit par The English Electric Company Limited (EE)

La Diesel-Electrique "SD40T-2" a été construite par General Motors Electro-Motive Division aux États-Unis en 1974 et sera produite en 321 exemplaires jusqu'en 1980. Équipée d'un moteur diesel EMD 645E3, cette locomotive est utilisée en tant que "Road Switcher". Fabriqué pour les trois chemins fer des États Unis entre Avril 1974 et Juillet 1980, ce genre de locomotives et plus généralement les SD45T-2 (Petite soeur de la SD40T-2) seront populairement surnommer “Tunnel motor” bien que EMD employera le terme de SD40-2 avec une “Modification du système de refroidissement” (Ou dans le terme original, SD40-2 with a Cooling System Modification) et cela car elle été dessiné avec un meilleurs système de refroidissement dans les zones montagneuses. La différence entre cette locomotive et ses cousins n’étant pas des Tunnel Motor réside dans le la prise d’air sur radiateur qui est situé plus bas à l’arrière de la locomotive. Cette locomotive est mise en mouvement par un EMD 645, un moteur de la famille des Diesel à deux temps qui sera d’abord vue pour une utilisation dans les engins stationnaires, la marines et les locomotives.

La EMD LWT12 utilisée pour le Jet Rocket de Rock Island du comté de Rock Island dans l'Illinois. Sur la photo, il est arrêté à Blue Island aussi dans l'Illinois, mais dans le comté de Cook. Il sera relégué à la Banlieue de Chicago avant d'être retiré en 1965. Seule trois LWT12 seront construites. La première des EMD LWT12 aura comme nombre de série le “20826” et entrera en service à Chicago, plus exactement à Rock Island avec le Pacific Railroad connu alors sous le nom de “Ligne de Rock Island” et reliera Chicago à Peoria dans l’Illinois. Cette locomotive deviendra plus tard la “Rock Island’s Locomotive Number 1”. Bien que manquant de puissance notamment dans les pentes, l’avantage d’un telle design de locomotive permettait une maintenance moindre grâce à un remplacement d’uniquement une partie superflue des pièces. Cette locomotive est mise en mouvement par un EMD 567, un imposant moteur “Medium-Speed” fonctionnant au Diesel fabriqué par General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD). Il succède au Winton’s 201A et sera utilisé à partir de 1938 sur les locomotives d’EMD jusqu’à son remplacement en 1966 par le EMD 645.

[collinthenychudson]

It's about time I get down into building standard-cab diesels starting off with the EMD SD40T-2 in a Rio Grande livery. Original SD40-2 design by CraftyFoxe.

SD40-2 tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THZIdTjv3F4

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

How to replace a test cock tube on 645 EMD engine locomotive.

That sound!    Hmmmmm

Every once in a while, I see something neat and also go, “I know what that is!” -- and I don’t merely mean about the massive EMD645E3 2-stroke diesel engine!

I mean, I see Southern Pacific heritage!

I see snowsheds and summit tunnels, the Sierra, Cascades, and the Tehachapi Loop -- I. see. a. living. breathing.  tunnel motor.

For kicks and giggles, here’s my suppositional identification, which might be wrong, but there’s not a lot of surviving SD40T-2s left, sadly -- I am counting on someone to correct me if I get it wrong lol @eltristan​  @identifying-trains-in-posts-too​ @identifying-trains-in-posts​ @identifying-trains-inposts​

Southern Pacific 8515, grimey and glorious -- Speed Lettering and at some point sold to the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, TRRA 3001  and still going as ILSX 1310 on the leasing company, Independent Locomotive Service

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/serialThumbs.aspx?id=786174-17&mfg=EMD

[inspiredwriterstory]

Common misconceptions about the care and training of your American Diesel locomotives.

•There's two main types of locomotives to that require different needs, contrast to the misconception every locomotive is out there blocking crossings. Mainline locomotives and switching locomotives.

•The most common of the mainline locomotives are known as Gevo's and are powerhouses that are very social. They enjoy long runs with up to three other Gevo's. These trains can consist of containers, coal, fuel, boxcars, basically anything. These locomotives are not for those who don't have extra space.

•Despite common belief, the Gevo's wide noise is not a fault of breeding like dogs and European semi trucks, but rather natural evolution as a defense against the wild.

•Switch locomotives like the SD40-2 enjoy getting out their energy by running around yards and assembling trains. They are pretty introverted and organized locomotives, but they are more than willing to pull the occasional main line train. Just don't over exert theme.

•While the most popular, steam locomotives require the most work to take care of. There must be a good supply of parts, a good supply of coal/wood/oil and water, and most of all they need room to run.

•The common practice of putting locomotives on static display is actually hurtful, as they are quite active creatures.

•Do not crowd any train, especially steam locomotives. They are powerful and will accidentally hurt you.

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