Found on Surplus Auctions: Big Iron Edition

[ForSweden]

Lot of (4) EMD SD40-3 Locomotives - $440,000 or Best Offer - Cedar City, Utah

Power: 3,000 hp (Gross) 2,800 hp (Traction), Tractive Effort: 120,000 lbs. Starting 84,000 lbs. Continuous @ 11 MPH, US Standard Rail Gauge, 400,000 lb. Mass, 66,667 lb. Axle Load, 68 MPH Maximum Speed, 534 kW Power Per Driving Axle, 62:15 Gear Ratio, 40 in. Wheel Diameter, 4,000 Gallon Fuel Capacity, Fuel Monitor Dimensions: 68 ft. 10 in. Length Over Couplers, 15 ft. 7 1/2 in. Height Over Rail Level, 10 ft. Width, 43 ft. 6 in. Bolster Centers, 13 ft. 7 in. Truck Wheelbase, 193 ft. (30 degrees) Curve (Single Unit), WGS Rebuilt Engine, 16-645E3C, AR10/CA5 Main Generator.

The listing has 230 photographs. Time to start your railroad Oppo.

[davesaddiction]

@ForSweden

Convert it into a generator to backfill green power plants when the sun ain't shining and the wind ain't blowing?

[ForSweden]

@davesaddiction Canadians did it

[ranwhenparked]

@ForSweden I don't need anything that big, we've just got a couple of small 1950s yard switchers at work

[WilliamsSW]

@ForSweden looks like all four ran when parked, currently won’t start.

Let’s get ‘em running and flip them to a lessor

[Highlander]

@ForSweden Those should go to the scrapper in the sky.

[Skyfire77]

@ForSweden I thought 6064 was really rusty until I saw the last two pics and realized that's the livery.

[newjoekaz]

@davesaddiction it IS a generator, isn't it?

[davesaddiction]

@ForSweden @newjoekaz

TIL... very cool.

One way to go "off the grid", I suppose.

[KngT]

@ForSweden no manual no buy