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Locomotive profile: SD40/-2 series type of diesel electric locomotive

By Angela Cotey | March 6, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020

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Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern, SD40-type diesel electric locomotives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern, SD40-type diesel electric locomotives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
SD40/-2 series

•YEARS BUILT: 1966-1988

•MANUFACTURER: EMD

•OPERATED ON: Most Class I freight railroads in North America

•NAMES: SD40, 40-2, Snoot (for extended nose versions), Tunnel Motor (for SD40T-2), High Hood (for SR and N&W), Wide Nose (for CN), Fast Forties (on UP)

•QUANTITY: 5,576 (1,296 SD40/SD40A/SDP40), (4,280 SD40-2, SD40T-2, SD40-2S, SD40-2F)

•HORSEPOWER: 3,000

•KNOWN FOR: Large platform areas extending at each end of the SD40-2 model

•STATUS: Many still in active service on Class I railroads, leasers, regionals, short lines, and industrials

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