| SD40 6307 rests in the parking lot at the Western America Railroad Museum in Barstow. 6307 was originally Santa Fe 1707, built by EMD in 1966. The unit was renumbered not long after to ATSF 5007. In the early 1980s, Santa Fe rebuilt and repainted the locomotive, giving it the designation SD40u. The unit would keep its number, however, until the BNSF merger, whne it would be renumbered 6307. The unit oerated with BNSF for over 10 years, finally being sidelined in 2009. In order to clear room in the roster for new ES44ACs from GE, BNSF 6307 officially became GN 6307, and was stripped of Santa Fe markings. The unit was stored at Barstow with an uncertain future for 10 years, before finally being donated to the museum in 2019, where it now resides with fellow SD40 Unioon Pacific 9950. |