GE Dash 8-40C
Railroad Quantity Road numbers Notes
Canadian National Railway 77 2000-2041 , 2100-2134 All units were originally bought by CNW and sold by UP , 2127 sold to CRIP ( revival )
Chicago and North Western Transportation Company 77 8501-8577 8575-8577 were 4,150 hp ( 3,090 kW ) , all units were passed on to UP and later sold to CREX
Cimarron Valley Railroad 7 4050-4056 All units are ex-CSX , painted in a Santa Fe inspired paint scheme
Citicorp Railmark Inc. ( Citirail ) 42 9023-9064 Originally bought by CNW , sold by UP and sold to CN
Conrail 25 6025-6049 Split between CSX and NS , all units remaining in Conrail colors are retired
CSX Transportation 55 7489-7498 , 7500-7646 Classed as C40-8 , 7489-7498 are ex-Conrail . All retired from May 2016 to February 2017 , most have been sold off to other railroads or have been scrapped
Estrada de Ferro Carajás 4 501-504
Everywhere West Locomotives Leasing , LLC 1 9129 Currently at Mondovi , Washington , for sale or lease
GE Capital 15 7516 , 7522 , 7524 , 7533 , 7537 , 7544 , 7560 , 7569 , 7570 , 7586 , 7612 , 7619 , 7629 , 7640 , 7642 All units are former CSX , currently on lease to NS except for 7522 and 7612
New Orleans Public Belt Railroad 4 4001-4004 All units are former NS
Norfolk Southern Railway 89 8300-8313 , 8689-8763 8300-8313 are ex-Conrail . All units were to be rebuilt with a new wide cab , upgraded electronics , etc . 8500-8504 , 8506-8513 being rebuilt with an NS Crescent nose/cab ( The same on the SD60Es ) , 8505 being rebuilt with a GE widenose and cab . They are classified as a Dash 8.5-40CW but are labeled as D8.5-40CW . However , due to repeated failures , all Norfolk Southern C40-8 's will be sold or scrapped , and 47 new ET44AC and three ES44AC locomotives will replace them . Last remaining units retired in 2017
Pan Am Railways 24 7489 7500 7517-7518 7523 7528 7534-7535 7541-7542 7545 7552 7561 7575 7585 7594-7595 7605 7609 7620 7622 7627 7635 7643 Classed as C40-8 , all ex-CSX . 7489 is ex-Conrail
Providence and Worcester Railroad 4 4050-4053 All units are ex-NS
Union Pacific Railroad 255 9100-9355 , 9185 ( 2nd ) 9185 ( first ) returned to GE , became testbed . As of early 2019 , all units have been sold/auctioned off
Current and former owners
The GE C40-8 is a 6-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems between 1987 and 1992. It is part of the GE Dash 8 Series of freight locomotives, and its wheel arrangement is of a C-C type. This locomotive model is often referred to as a Dash 8-40C or simply Dash 8. Dash 8 in general refers to the electrical control series, Dash being a carryover from the older syntax of C40-8. The 40 refers to the baseline horsepower rating (4,000 hp or 3,000 kW) of the unit, although some units may be re-rated to 4,100 hp (3,100 kW). Later units were supplied with a wide-nose cab and are designated Dash 8-40CW, the W indicating a wide-nose cab.