MPI 9050 leads KCS SD40-2 4618 out of Knoche Yard and across Southwest Junction. The conductor is about to throw a pair of water bottles to the photographer on this mild December …

Follow this link for information on Morrison Knudson Corporation power. Morrison-Knudsen entered the railroad industry in 1971 as a builder of "kit-bashed" locomotives; its base of …

ugTM plug-and-play technology Improved 5-pole skew wound can motor with flywheels and multi-link In 1966, EMD updated its locomotive catalog with entirely new models, all drivetrain for trouble-free operation powered.

MotivePower Inc. (MPI), a Wabtec company, specializes 40-3 in reworking older SD locomotives into like-new condition complete with new material and workmanship warranty.

The MPI SD40M-2 diesels were leased out to various power short railroads in the 1990s. The BN and UP in particular saw heavy usage of these locomotives and the SP later before they took delivery of their own SD40M-2s.

Although Union Pacific was well known in the 70\'s and 80\'s for having a huge fleet of SD40-2\'s (almost 700 before acquiring more from the MoPac, MKT, and C&NW mergers), they also rostered 115 of EMD\'s original SD40 model.

Title: Blue and green Description: A leased MPI SD40 in train 196 in C&S yd. at Trinidad, CO.

Leased MPI SD40M-2 9018 and a CP Rail SD40-2 were tied down at CSX's Curtis Bay yard after arriving with an acid train in 1991. Parked alongside a former C&O GP39 and a yard slug made from a GP9, the foreign power would return to Canada once the train was unloaded.

Samuel Phillips's Photo Album: MPI SD40-2.

A quartet of MPI SD40s pull a Utah Railway coal empty through Spanish Fork Canyon approaching Castilla, Utah on June 17, 1991. MPI 9012 was built Southern Pacific SD45 No. 9083 in March 1969, and subsequently rebuilt an SD40 …