The Last Unpatched SP Tunnel motor.

ame3985 · **Joined:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:23 am **Posts:** 1

it still lives on, for now at least in Monroe GA At the RTEX locomotive facility there. This was the last Unpatched SP SD40T-2 in service on the UP roster. Was retired sometime in 2008. and has now ended up here.

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPictur ... id=1781861

it would be great if this one could be saved.

A Elder North Carolina

tomgears · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:57 am

Have any tunnel motors been preserved?

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:11 am

My notes show SP SD45T-2 6819 (originally SP 9193) at the California State Railway Museum. I'll leave it to others to debate whether or not its presence there actually constitutes "preservation," given the somewhat dubious status of the former AT&SF diesel collection there.

That's the only one I can find so far. Many of the other "tunnel motors" ended up on the secondhand market and were picked up by B&LE (later CN), Ohio Central, Buffalo & Pittsburgh, NYS&W, and others.

scottychaos · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:59 am

UP donated D&RGW SD40T-2 5371 to the Utah state RR museum in August 2009:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 605&nseq=0

5371 was never "patched" by UP before she was donated to the museum!
(the only D&RGW unit that was never patched by UP)
So she is in her original paint today..

So thats two tunnel motors preserved so far..

Scot