| Posted by bradley on March 24, 2023 | |
On top of the man cave decorating list!
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Either a GP40 or SD45. The SD40-2's did not have the vent below the front engineers window and the walkway light is the style after the one on the GP35's. The number was probably inside above the front windows,. Thank you Bill for your many great postings of the Milwaukee Roads finest.
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I should have gone inside for a look.
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| Posted by SES on August 19, 2023 | |
It's a little late in the game for this comment but I'd be willing to bet this was either a GP40 or GP35 cab as even the Soo Line wasn't likely to scrap a Milwaukee SD40-2, since those were the best and newest power the Milwaukee had at acquisition. I think the only SD40-2's that may not have made it would have been any that came from the disastrous head-on collision at Pandora, WA in 1977. I believe most of the 5 or 6 units were restored to service but if memory serves me, one was too badly damaged. I know one of the units ended up on top of the other and the one that got smashed probably didn't make it back to service. This definitely couldn't have been the cab from that unit because the cab on the smashed Pandora victim was basically flattened.
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