From today's Trains Newswire at www.trains.com (additional content for subscribers):

DULUTH, Minn. - Canadian National Railway has donated former Wisconsin Central SD45 7495 to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth. The locomotive, built in April 1967 as Northern Pacific 3617, is among the last surviving Northern Pacific SD45s among a fleet of 30 that the NP received between 1966 and 1968. It became Burlington Northern 6417 in 1970, and went to the Wisconsin Central as the 6417 in 1987. WC later renumbered it 6495 and finally 7495 when WC rebuilt the locomotive just prior to the merger with CN. It was among the last SD45s rebuilt by WC. It is not currently operational.

Very good to hear. I wonder how many ex WC '45s have gone to the big roundhouse in the sky. Would be nice to see one in CN but that's probably not going to happen.

Joshua