General Electric C40-8

25 4000 horsepower GE C40-8's were purchased by Conrail in 1989. These units are mechanically identical to their far more numerous C40-8W sisters. These units are the last "standard" cab units ordered by Conrail.

 

C40-8 and an LMS C40-8W work a train at the east end of Allentown Yard, September 1996
C40-8 6045 is being moved by the Enola shop goat (SW1001 9614) into the shop for maintenance. April 10, 1998
C40-8's 6042 6029 lead a westbound just west of Jim Thorpe, Pa. on the  former Lehigh Valley  in Febrary, 1991.