Don't know if I could call this one a "beast", but it is a kitbash of a prototype kitbash. An SD40-2 was involved in a wreck, and was rebuilt without the cab and the dynamic brake blisters were installed where the cab used to be:
The prototype was actually a Burlington Northern loco.
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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