| NEWMAN KS Sept 26 1979 -- UP SD40 3104 handles a mixed freight. According to utahrails.net it was built in September 1971 and retired Jan 30 1989. It was then “sold to Wilson Railway Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 6 June 1989, reconditioned and sold to PLM 3104 in August 1989, held at Wilson until mid 1990; rebuilt to SD40-2 by Morrison Knudsen, Mountaintop, Pa., completed as PLM 3104 on 31 August 1990; sold to Morrison Knudsen in April 1993; rebuilt to SD40M-2 by Morrison Knudsen, Boise, Idaho, completed as Morrison Knudsen (MKCX) 9053 on 4 February 1994; sold to Helm Leasing (HLCX) 6300, 26 August 1996; leased to Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, in service as TFM 1511; returned to Helm, in national lease service as HLCX 6300.” |