Former Santa Fe SD45-2 to be saved in Bicentenial scheme

PMC · **Joined:** Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:55 pm **Posts:** 2295

This is the version of the SD45 without a flared hood for the radiators, the 5600 series on Santa Fe. Many of them ended up on Montana Rail Link and I don't know of any other saves: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews ... olleciton/

EJ Berry · **Posted:** Thu Oct 07, 2021 8:20 pm

Hmmmmm.

Maybe RRMPA can paint GG1 4800 in the bicentennial scheme.

Phil Mulligan

PMC · **Joined:** Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:55 pm **Posts:** 2295

A Milwaukee Road fan found MILW SD40-2 156 in a Decatur IL scrapyard (as Pan Am 609) and was trying to rescue it this past summer, he later said that it was bought and was still intact when everything else in the yard was cut up, but he didn't know who bought it. I'm not really a fan of red, white and blue paint (e.g. the current UP scheme), but any time a second generation unit is saved I am a fan.

Tyler Trahan · **Joined:** Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:47 pm **Posts:** 35

Norfolk & Western No. 1776, a high-nose SD45, is preserved at the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

p51 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:22 pm

So nice to hear that SF unit got saved. I had no clue that MILW 156 was still around!

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Wed Oct 13, 2021 5:57 pm

Regular, photo-heavy updates on the progress of "backdating" and repainting the 5704 are being posted by Stephen Priest at the Facebook page of the Midwest Santa Fe Modelers:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1679036455690302/

Former Santa Fe SD45-2 to be saved in Bicentenial scheme

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