SD40-2 retirement

Well, it's starting to pick up now. If there's a major problem, instead of a repair, they'll be retired. CP has enough AC and ES units to replace them. Get photos while you still can!

Here is the current sale: https://www8.cpr.ca/inet62/snp/Pages/Vi ... Tender=766 Most of these have serious mechanical issues.

May one of you (if possible) post some photos of these locomotives.

If you follow the link, click "Loco pics.zip" and save it to your documents file. You'll have CPs last pictures of these units. 38 in total. You'll also find RTEX 229 retired here, an MP15DC was supposed to become CP1448. I dont know why it was retired.

One thing I found interesting is the availability ratings for those units in 2004--most are above 85% and at least one is above 95%. Not bad for units deemed ready for retirement!