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I really love the SD40/SD40-2 engines! Appreciated this video! The SD40-2 may be on shorter time than we know! I just saw a video earlier this week that was talking about the EPA is mandating that one of the mega short line operators (I’m thinking it was the Genesee and Wyoming) replace or rebuild a bunch of their older units. It actually listed each unit that was in question. A lot of SD40-2’s were on the list. They we’re to be brought up to stricter standards or retired!
Great video. Love the SD -40's. My favorite locomotive. Luckily where I work at they have 2 of them. So I can still see them run for a few more years. I was recently informed by a RU-vidr that KCS has only 20 units remaining. I see union Pacific still uses them for local trains. Great video glad I subscribed
Thank you. Wow, I didn’t know KCS has so few. Than again, they are the smallest of the class 1’s. UP and BNSF seem to really like their SD40-2’s. They’re a super common sight in railyards. Thank you for the sub!
Just one point of correction, a spotting feature is that not all have the dynamic brakes, so for example Illinois Central / Illinois Central Gulf had a huge fleet of SD40-2s as original equipment from EMD, not all had dynamic brakes and later many had the dynamic brake removed. However IC bought quite a few SD40-2s from the BN, and many of these they also removed the DB . Therefore some SD40-2s only have the 3 fans and a long blank where the DB goes. Nice video !
@@evanmrozinski I believe its because the locomotives would not be operating on lines with a gradient, therefore no need to have DBs. It would just be more weight and maintenance for something not used.
The SD40-2 was the only EMD mainline locomotive to make its way into BC Rail's roster. While reliable, they were said to have fallen short of the pulling power/torque of the MLW M630s that BC Rail was using at the time.
Always fun watching Southern Pacific go by, they had SD40-2, SD40-T2, SD9, SD35. All 6 axle trucks. I lived on the Siskiyou Sub most what was on it was wood products or empty car. North full south empty
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan great video, and I love the channel and in all fairness, the majority of them did but some of the units on cn and soo didn’t come equipped with it
I always loved the front and back porches as they call em. It just looks so much better that way. EJ&E used these engines too, in fact some of the CN ones are former EJ&E
Howzit : Along with the F-45's / FP-45's [ Cowl Units ]; the SD 40-2 remains as a full-on favourite ! I stand to correction; but the main reason for the Tell-Tale attractive porches; was that the frame / chassis of the SD-45 ( Troublesome 20 Cylinder Prime-Mover ) was incorporated into the design; which obviously also allowed for the 2 x 3-Axle powered trucks. Much thanks for your Series. Lakka and Cheers For Now / Johnny 🤙🤘
hey, that Santa Fe SD40-2 1648, I think it was put on yard work in our powershops, it moves around quite a bit but stays in the powershops, lucky you got to see it!
@@imakerandomvideos14 Sorta kinda. I stopped off to get some pictures on my way back to Oklahoma this weekend. I was really looking for the Warbonnet Dash-8 y’all have, but it wasn’t there. I did see y’all’s old bluebonnet slug, though. That things cool!
There’s some variations of the SD40-2 including 3 different lengths of the short hood. Kalmback publishing printed I believe 2 magazines specific to the SD40-2. I can’t find the first one.
There's a lot of words that accurately describe the SD40-2, but I'll just call them classic for now. There was a British locomotive built in the 1980s that was directly based on the SD40-2, on the mechanical side at least. That locomotive is the Class 59. These are some of my favourite US diesels, alongside the EMD F40PH and GE B40-8W. Incidentally there are some GE-built locomotives here in New Zealand, namely the 'DH' and 'DX' classes (models U10B and U26C respectively).
Did you know that the last SD40-2 ever built by emd is currently working here in brazil? They were built for the E.F.C railroad, operated by VALE on the NorthEast of Brazil
*Well done, however, you failed to cover the longer rear hood version for tunnels that DOES NOT have long back porch? Correct me if I'm wrong... At any rate, I LOVE distinctive "scribble" of the SD40-2! Just like the Harley, a very distinctive sound...*
CP Also had SD40-2F's, (No. 9000-9025). They were retired in 2014 and we thought the GMD Cowls were extinct but CM&Q Bought 10 of CP's retired Barns in 2015-16. That was until 2020 when CPKC acquired CM&Q and re-aquired the 10 SD40-2F's. Since then majority are used on ballast/short local trains and one had been converted to CPKC's hydrogen unit (No. 1001)
@0:40 i think you mean the current railroads that operate the locomotives, because we all know there were way too many railroads when it came out that was purchases.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan It's another BNSF yard, originally built by Great Northern. Hump yard and big maintenance shops with the old roundhouse still in use. A kind Burlington Northern yard employee took me and my pops around the whole facility back in the 70's when they would still do those kind of things.
Before the Dash2, there was the SD40. This was the locomotive that EMD built to compete against the ALCo C630 and the GE U30C. The SD40-2 improved on the original design primarily with the HT-C truck which significantly increased traction vs. the older Flexicoil-C trucks. As you alluded to, the new truck design resulted in a longer frame compared to the older SD40. Many SD40's have been internally rebuilt and electrically upgraded to Dash 2 standards and classified as SD40-2's. On CSX, we now have SD40's/40-2's rebuilt as "SD40-3's".
@@threehead99 The SD40 (as well as the 38 and 39) shared the same frame as the SD45. With the introduction of the Dash 2 line came a new 6-axle truck design (the HT-C) which necessitated a longer frame. This allowed for the fuel tank to remain the same and accommodation of the trucks which now had all traction motors facing the same direction.
all SD40-2s have 5 fans *IF* they have dynamic brakes..! not all dash 2s had dynamic brakes. Missouri Pacific probably had the largest fleet of non-dynamic brake equipped dash 2s. but don't quote me on that.
@@Southern_Plains_Railfan The SD40-2, like all other EMD models before, during and after its time actually had several different gear ratios. 65 MPH just happens to the slowest speed ratio if I remember correctly without looking through my manuals.
Not all Railroads in the world have SD40-2 to have C-C bogey wheel arrangements, sometimes the railroad rebuild thier SD40-2 Railroads in Brazil for example, some of thier SD40-2 were rebuilt into BB40-2, the locomotive have BB-BB bogey wheel arrangement This type of arrangement is often use on 3ft 3in gauge Not only SD40-2 have this bogey arrangement, SD40T-2 did have the same rebuild along with other locomotives
@@greatmeme nope, in Brazil those BB-BB being classified as BB40-2 or SD40BB EMD also made an SD70ACe for VLI on Narrow Gauge track, the unit is SD70ACe-BB
