Wisconsin Central Photographic Roster, Locomotive Model: SD45. Unit # Notes Model Serial # Pictures : WC SD45: ex-BN: SD45 1

The SD45 is a six-axle diesel-electric locomotive class built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between 1965 and 1971. It has an EMD 645E3 twenty-cylinder engine generating 3,600 hp (2,680 kW) on the same frame as the SD38, SD39, SD40, and SDP40.

Thanks to the following contributors / sources: Joseph Belote, Greg Cochenet, Steve Grishaber, Fred Hyde, Randy Keller, Ray Weart and Don Wellnitz. Here are two other very deatiled rosters from George Widener and from Galen Fromm and Steve Clasen.

A pair of Wisconsin Central SD45 units head up a unit coal train as it passes through Dayton, Ohio. WC #6630 was built as ATSF 5596 but landed on the WC roster in 1994 and eventually sold to Larry's Truck Equipment in 2003 and scrapped.

WC SD45s 7517 and 7585, along with a BC Rail C40-8M, sit in the dealine at Homewood. I have no idea what the C40-8M is doing there, and WC 7517, along with 7505 and a third SD45 are now on the DMVW.

Jul 14, 2010 · They just used the WC reporting marks and a few units were even repainted into WC colors but were still technically Oxford units (i.e. the 1700-series WC SD45's that were on the W&LE in the early 90's).

On 8-3-2005, Ken Lanovich reported: "WC SD45`s 6610, and 6611 are in the process of being scrapped at IC`s Woodcrest shop. Cutting torches had the frame of 6610 in three pieces today. All of the hood doors were cut off 6611.

Wisconsin Central (WC) EMD SD45 6588 built Dec. 1966 as AT&SF 1866, and seen at N. Fond du Lac, WI Sept. 17, 1993. Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection 8.

Wisconsin Central (WC) EMD SD45 6579 built Dec. 1966 as AT&SF 1869, and seen at Cadott, WI Sept. Sept. 20, 1997.

Wisconsin Central (WC) EMD GP9r 4505 built April 1951 as a M&StL unit, was C&NW 4505, and seen in Stevens Point, WI Sept. 17, 1993. Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection 2.