There HERE!!!!!!!

[Guilford Guy9887]

Finally Pan Am went out and bought some new power!!!!!! 4 SD40's from KCS/TFM. I wish i knew what number these units are going to be. i have a bb athearn waiting to be decaled. i was going to number it as the 600 MEC but now ill wait

 

[jbaakko]

SD40's or SD40-2's?

 

[bigford]

so new old power? i thought the sd40 & sd40-2
were about 30+ years old!

 

[Guilford Guy9887]

When i say new i mean new to pan am heres a pic

They are sd40-2's

http://imagestorage.nerail.org/photos/2010/03/19/201003191735157211.jpg

also josh, did you get my emails yet?

 

[diburning]

All of them are various engines in the SD40 series in various carbodies, but all rebuilt to SD40-2s.

Pan Am Railways (Operator of Springfield Terminal Railway, Maine Central, and Boston and Maine) bought 15 KCS and TFM SD40-2s from KCS.

The ones that have already arrived were patched with primer (yes, primer, they were too cheap to use real paint) and were renumbered and are now in service.

 

[BNSFrailfan]

Those SD40-2's are gonna look mighty good in Missouri Pacific blue.

 

[fiend540]

I guess this means the end of the old sd units they have now right?

 

[Guilford Guy9887]

Most of the six axle units they have are either in there deadline or HLCX units. the only two older sd's i think they run are sd26's

 

[PEIR]

Didn't they have one SD45 still running?

 

[Irongrave]

at least there is primer on these units most of them they paint right over the old road and rust and it bleeds threw in a few years

 

[diburning]

no, the primer was applied over the old paint.

And no, the old high hood sd45 has been dead for years