FARWELL TX July 6 1986 — Santa Fe SD45u 5366 handles the head end of a mixed freight. Within a short distance it will cross the Texas-New Mexico border and continue to Clovis NM. EMD built the unit (s/n 32508) in October 1966 as ATSF 1832 and delivered it in Bookends livery with blue body with yellow warbonnet. As part of the general renumbering it became ATSF 5532 in April-July 1970. Sometime after August 26 1972 it was repainted into blue body with yellow warbonnet. In September 1983 the San Bernardino CA shops rebuilt it as an SD45u and renumbered it ATSF 5366. In June 1992 it was Laid Up Bad Ordered at an unknown location. Santa Fe retired the unit and Morrison Knudsen acquired it before April 17 1994. Gene crossett’s Santa Fe diesel roster site records that the unit was “ret [date], to MK xxx94, to ATSF lease [date], to Helm Financial May96, to BNSF lease [date], stored at BLC Boise ID Jan99, to CEFX 3145 21Feb01”.
