Alstom GCFX SD40 #3071 at Albany, Oregon, on May 17, 2006

I photographed this southbound Union Pacific freight train from my car on Interstate 5 near Albany, Oregon, on May 17, 2006. The only locomotive with a visible road number is Alstom Canada (GCFX) #3071, a 3,000-horsepower SD40 that was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in June 1970 as Kansas City Southern #624. By 1987, it had been retired and acquired by the Soo Line Railroad and renumbered to #6402. While the Soo Line was absorbed into its parent company Canadian Pacific in 1990, this locomotive remained in Soo Line’s candy apple red paint scheme when it was retired and became part of National Railway Equipment’s lease fleet as NREX #6402. By 2003 it had been acquired by Alstom Canada for lease service as GCFX #3071 and painted gray as it appears here.