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CP GP40X's
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 13, 2005 12:36 AM
Canadian pacific has purchased a number of gp40x's rebuilt with turbos removed but flares intact, saw some at st paul.
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Posted by nanaimo73 on Monday, June 13, 2005 12:49 AM
There were 23 GP40Xs built in 1977 and 1978. These were 3500 hp forerunners of the GP50. CP never had a 50 series locomotive. Union Pacific got 6, Southern Pacific got 4, Southern got 3 and the ATSF had the other 10. The UP and SP had the HT-B truck while the ATSF and Southern had Blomberg M trucks. Southern's were built with high short hoods. SP's had a L shaped front window. Do you know where CP got these ?

CP is calling these 7 units GP38-2 4520-4526
1 ex Southern GP50
3 ex UP GP40X
1 ex SP GP40X
2 ex Southern GP38
Coming from NRE.
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Posted by Hugh Jampton on Monday, June 13, 2005 5:30 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73

Do you know where CP got these ?


Honest Bob's Used Loco Lot.
1 mile West of Kapuskasing on Highway 11 (just near the airport)
Look for the sign of the flaming stack..
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 13, 2005 3:07 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton

QUOTE: Originally posted by nanaimo73

Do you know where CP got these ?


Honest Bob's Used Loco Lot.
1 mile West of Kapuskasing on Highway 11 (just near the airport)
Look for the sign of the flaming stack..
Beware of Imitations,, Accept no Substitutes. Void where prohibited by Law

Hey! I think they've got a store in Ogden (Utah).
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Posted by Leo_Ames on Friday, October 17, 2014 3:29 PM

Bumping a very old thread to inquire about the fate of the two Union Pacific GP40X's that weren't rebuilt after UP retired them into GP38-2's for CPR with Bloomberg trucks replacing their HT-B trucks.

One of the six was wrecked in 1997 and scrapped (The 956), leaving the 958 and 959 unaccounted for from the data that I have.

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Posted by NorthWest on Friday, October 17, 2014 5:52 PM

959 was  briefely renumbered to 5055, and was sold to RELX. Both disappear in about mid 2001, when they were retired by UP. I can't find disposition, likely either scrapped or sitting in the yard of a leaser.  

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