Norfolk Southern SD40-2s, who can resist them?!

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AN IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION of power was in charge of a manifest photographed at Celanese Drive, just north of Salisbury, North Carolina, on March 12th, 2005. At the head of the train were three former Southern SD40-2s, Nos. SOU 3309, SOU 3382, SOU 3229, while Norfolk Southern four-axle-trucked colleagues GP40-2 No. PRR 3053 & GP38 No. NW 4122 were also in the consist. The freight would set back a block of cars in the industrial facility off scene to the right.

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Ostensibly the same locomotive type, but good for a game of spot the difference… it will keep you going a while! Norfolk Southern SD40-2 No. NW 6078 (blt. 02/75) & CIT Rail/Capital Equipment Finance SD40-2 No. CEFX 3156 (ex-UP 3634, blt. 11/79) are pictured stabled at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on March 11th, 2005.