I seldom post in this forum so excuse me if this has appeared before. Something you don't see every day: whole buncha retired SD40-2's probably headed for the National Railway Equipment Co. loco rebuild shop at Silvis, IL. So if you're in the market for a 1:1 scale SD40-2 get that petty cash shoebox out of the hall closet and call NREC. 
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The UP's were all tunnel motors. They looked like SD-45T-2's.
Is the lettering xxxed out? It does not look like UP. Where could they hide that many tunnel motors? Mexico?
I'll take all the green ones with black tops.
Give me a total with shipping please.
Hmmm, now how much land would I need to have a decent radius ..........
Jerry thanks for sharing with us.
Very cool!
In O scale: 35 dummy SD-40T-2s @ $200 each = $7,000. Maybe I won't try modeling that one after all!!!
That was very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Those were ex-SP SD45T-2's rebuilt to SD40-2's before the merger with UP. We had them in California and Nevada. UP purged them 5 yrs ago about the time they purged the SD50's. The ex-DRGW SD50's lasted the longest of the 50 series, including the GP's.
Greg
My 2nd/3rd generation diesel recognition skills are very poor but... After doing a little homework and watching the vid again it appears most if not all of those UP units were indeed SD45T-2's, probably ex-SP units. Good call fredswain! 
You can see the units have been renumbered at some point, but I'll let the UP geeks ponder that stuff.
"NREX" (National Railway Equipment Co.) reporting marks were spray-painted on the cabs, something else I didn't notice earlier.
Update: Greg, just saw your post, thanks for the correct info.
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