Talk:EMD SDP40F

SDF40-2
Perhaps an article should be started on the SDP40F's that were sold to Santa Fe and converted to SDF40-2?. I know there were only a handful of the units, but I think the locomotive still should be covered. Erzahler 19:36, 6 October 2006 (UTC) @Mackensen : Oh well, it was just an idea. Thanks for the info. Erzahler (talk) 14:27, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * (11 years pass) The topic is covered in some depth now. I don't think there's enough information to warrant a standalone article. Mackensen (talk) 16:28, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

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Athearn's copyright violation
Athearn's new SDP40F model copied text from this article without attribution and licensing. TheGGoose (talk) 16:14, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Now resolved.TheGGoose (talk) 15:24, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Inaccuracy?
"The private railroads chose to retain their most modern passenger locomotives to operate the various commuter services which, by law, did not pass to Amtrak"

This is a bit of a stretch...

Santa Fe's and Milwaukee Road's FP45's went into freight service. Santa Fe's U28CG's and U30CG's went to freight service. Seaboard Coast Line's, Louisville & Nashville's, and Union Pacific's SDP35's to freight service. Burlington Northern's SDP40's and SDP45's went to freight service.

Only Southern Pacific's SDP45's went into commuter service, and that actually happened several years into Amtrak when SP needed to replace their Fairbanks-Morse power. The rest if they ever locked couplers with passenger cars again, did so on company specials, on lease to Amtrak in the early days, or as rescue power for Amtrak trains that had a locomotive failure en route. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:A645:2100:DD08:6EF8:3519:25A9 (talk) 02:41, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, freight service should have been mentioned, and is now. Mackensen (talk) 02:46, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

BNSF 6976 Return to Service
Updated the section on Chris Fussell's preserved SDP40F. It returned to operational condition on the Nevada Southern Railroad ten days ago, and was tested out on a Nevada Southern excursion train last Saturday.

So far the only references regarding it are from Dynamic Rail Preservation's official Facebook page. Recommend updating references to the return to operation if the news is published in a trade publication such as Trains Magazine or Railfan and Railroad. Until then, it looks like the Facebook sources are the only official source we have on the restoration.

Survivors
Contrary to what the article claims, there are at least two additional survivors. The AAR test track center in Pueblo operates at least two SDP40F's, as seen in recent aerial imagery on Google Maps.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B025'26.6%22N+104%C2%B017'22.5%22W/@38.4240615,-104.2898348,71m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d38.424061!4d-104.28958

I believe they're former EMD testbeds that were donated after EMD was finished with them. EMD used at least one, EMDX #169 (Amtrak #609), during the development of the 710 engine. The other likely is EMDX #218 (Amtrak #509). At least one other was utilized for test purposes, EMDX #134 (Amtrak #569), but only as an unpowered test car. Seen at least one picture of her at Pueblo, but it was 40 years ago. Unsure of her status.


 * Interesting. We'll need a better source than that, of course. Mackensen (talk) 14:30, 20 September 2021 (UTC)