Feather River GP40's
WESTERN PACIFIC'S GP40 FLEET
C O N T E N T S
GP40 Roster Summary 
GP40 Detailed Roster
GP40s to WC
Diesel Classes 
Roster Sources
WP Pages

WP GP40-2 3557 is ready to depart Oroville, CA. in July of 1980. (Ken Rattenne)
Compiled By Ken Rattenne

This roster was originally compiled as part of the disposition roster for the second volume of my book "The Feather River Route, Volume II."

The roster was updated in 1994 during preparation of an article on WP's GP40 fleet for Pacific RailNews magazine but was not included by the publisher when that monograph  saw print in April of 1996. 

As this is updated in February of 2011 much has happened to the fleet. Union Pacific still has possesion of the GP40-2s but the balance of the GP40s have scattered to the winds. Included is a roster of units picked up by the late, great Wisconsin Central, but since that road has been absorbed I do not currently have a disposition of the unts held by the company at merger time.

Western Pacific GP40/GP40-2 Roster Summary
UNIT NO. BLT DISPOSITION
GP40
1776,1976 1970 ex-3540, 3541 painted for bicentennial
3501-35041 1966 to UP 651-654 returned to lessor 1993, sold to KCS
3505 1966 destroyed 1970
3506-35101 1966 to UP 656-660, returned to lessor 1993, sold to KCS
3511 1967 to UP 661 sold for scrap in 1987
3512-35161
1967
 to UP 661-665 returned to lessor 1993, sold to KCS
3517-3526 1970 to UP 666-675 returned to lessor
3527 1971 destroyed 1980
3528-3539 1971 to UP 676-687 returned to lessor
3540 1971 ex 1776, destroyed 1980
3541-3544 1971 to UP 688-691 returned to lessor
GP40-2
3545-3549
1979
 to UP 900-904, then reblt as UP 3001-3005
3550-3559
1980
 to UP 905-914, UP 905-906 reblt to UP 3006, 3007
1. Units 3501-3516 were rebuilt by Morrison/Knudsen and were the last of the GP40s to be disposed of by UP.

NOTE: Dispositions do not reflect brief MP ownership of some units


 

Roster Sources

Roster sources include: Western Pacifcs Diesel Years by Joseph Strapac,Union Pacific Annual 1992, published by Highrail Publications, George Cockle, and various issues of X2200 South.

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Ken Rattenne
KPR Media Services
email: krattenne@sbcglobal.net
Modesto, CA
Last Update: 02/05/2011