| Chicago, Missouri & Western (CMNW) GP40 3521 was still painted in Western Pacific colors while on a westbound Southern Pacific transfer run in New Orleans. The locomotive had been built as the WP 3521 in August 1970 and was assigned Union Pacific 670 after the UP-WP merger in 1982, but it never received its UP number. Upon the expiration of its 15-year lease in August 1985 it was returned to its owner, and it was leased to the new CMNW in April 1987. It was assigned CMNW number 3004, but it was not renumbered before that railroad went bankrupt, and in January 1990 it passed to Gateway Western and was renumbered 3004. It was sold to the Wisconsin Central in September 1990 where it was rebuilt and repainted as WC 3004. The WC was acquired by the Canadian National in 2001 but it was never repainted for the CN. It went to Progress Rail in 2012 where it became PRLX 3104 and went to the Royal Gorge Route Railroad as the 3104 in 2017. |