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SDP40 & SDP45 Rosters & Paint

This page lists the rosters and paint schemes of all SDP40 and SDP45 locomotives built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors. Though these two models were built in relatively small numbers, they appeared in numerous paint schemes, and I though it would be interesting to summarize them. Major sources include the Unofficial EMD Homepage, the Great Northern Empire Then & Now, the Burlington Northern Railroad Photo Archive, the Conrail Cyclopedia, Don Strack's Utah Rails, rrpicturearchives.net and various other railroad photo sites.

SDP40s

The SDP40 was a passenger version of the SD40 freight locomotive, equipped with a steam generator and water tanks for heating passenger cars. Only 20 were built: 6 for the Great Northern Railway and 14 for the National Railroad of Mexico. Several of the SDP40s are still in service as freight units today.

Light Gray w/ Blue Stripes                              
Dark Blue, Black, White                                
Cascade Green "Whiteface"                              
Bicentennial #1976                                
Cascade Green                                  
Big Sky Blue                                  
Simplified Orange & Green                                
Serial Blt. Date Road #     Road #       Road #       Road #       Road #  
31592 May-66 GN 320 X X BN 9850   X   BN 6394 X                
31593 May-66 GN 321 X X BN 9851   X   BN 6395 X     MRL 290     X    
31594 May-66 GN 322 X X BN 9852   X X BN 6396 X                
31595 May-66 GN 323 X   BN 9853 X   X BN 6397 X X   BNSF 6325 X     GCFX 3093 X
31596 May-66 GN 324 X X BN 9854   X X BN 6398 X     BNSF 6326 X        
31597 May-66 GN 325 X X BN 9855   X   BN 6399 X   X BNSF 6327   X      
                                   
BN  Burlington Northern
BNSF  Burlington Northern - Santa Fe
GFCX  Alstom Canada
GN  Great Northern
MRL  Montana Rail Link

 

FNM Blue w/ Red KCS on hood              

Some of the FNM SDP40s were renumbered into a 5 digit 13000-series at some point. They may have been rebuilt. At least four carried these numbers; there may have been more. I don't know which they were originally. Three were transferred to Ferromex.

FXE Red & Green    
FXE Red & Green (as FXE 13084)    
Two-Tone Blue