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Owner: Burlington Northern
Model:EMD SD45Built As:BN 6540 (SD45)
Serial Number:37148Order No:5773
Frame Number:5773-43Built:8/1971
Notes:retired 1/86
Other locos with this serial:  BN 6540(SD45)
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BN 6540
Title:  BN 6540
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1971  Upload Date: 8/5/2012 1:36:53 AM
Location:  Interbay, WA
Author:  S.L. Dixon
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 6540(SD45)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
WP 3013 East near Virgilia
Title:  WP 3013 East near Virgilia
Description:  Randy Curlin Collection
Photo Date:  10/3/1971  Upload Date: 6/5/2022 8:14:18 PM
Location:  Virgilia, CA
Author:  Randy Curlin Collection
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  WP 3013(GP35) WP 3517(GP40) BN 6540(SD45)
Views:  232   Comments: 2
BN 6540
Title:  BN 6540
Description:  A trio of SD45's, BN 6540 spent all of its 15 years with BN. BN 6474 passed firstly to CNW, then to SP and finally absorbed into UP, by way of CNW 6474, SP 8609 and UP 2685 reporting marks. Then it was sold to NREX as NREX 2685. BN 6415 was new to Northern Pacific as NP 3615 but saw out its days with BN.
Photo Date:  3/20/1975  Upload Date: 4/27/2024 8:46:24 AM
Location:  Daytons Bluff, MN
Author:  Jerrold F Hilton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 6540(SD45) BN 6474(SD45) BN 6415(SD45)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
BN 6540 East
Title:  BN 6540 East
Description:  BN 6540 East leans into the super elevated curve approaching Fern Bluff a few miles east of Monroe.
Photo Date:  7/1/1975  Upload Date: 6/7/2011 12:02:54 AM
Location:  Monroe, WA
Author:  S.L. Dixon
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BN 6540(SD45)
Views:  264   Comments: 0
BN SD45 6540
Title:  BN SD45 6540
Description:  Burlington Northern Railroad SD45 6540 with a leaking battery at Alliance, Nebraska on February 12, 1983, Kodachrome by Jim Altman, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Photo Date:  2/12/1983  Upload Date: 9/28/2015 11:50:40 AM
Location:  Alliance, NE
Author:  Jim Altman
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BN 6540(SD45)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
BN 6540, 6571, and 6552 on BNEL
Title:  BN 6540, 6571, and 6552 on BNEL
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/18/1984  Upload Date: 7/5/2011 10:55:45 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 6540(SD45) BN 6571(SD45) BN 6552(SD45)
Views:  554   Comments: 0
Trio of BN SD45s
Title:  Trio of BN SD45s
Description:  6552, 6571, and 6540
Photo Date:  3/18/1984  Upload Date: 7/5/2011 10:55:18 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 6552(SD45) BN 6571(SD45) BN 6540(SD45)
Views:  352   Comments: 0
BN 6540
Title:  BN 6540
Description:  BN 6540 lasted barely 15 years with BN. The much older SD9 Dates from 1957 and saw service as CBQ 431 then with BN until being sold to Port of Tillamook Bay as POTB 6178. Scrapped after the line washed out in the mid 2000's.
Photo Date:  7/31/1985  Upload Date: 5/8/2024 10:25:36 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 6540(SD45) BN 6178(SD9)
Views:  56   Comments: 0
Ex-BN, now NHL, Shreveport
Title:  Ex-BN, now NHL, Shreveport
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/15/1988  Upload Date: 8/6/2017 3:15:29 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BN 6540(SD45)
Views:  295   Comments: 0


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