Athearn HO ATH SD40 Locomotive, NS #3434

With the split-up of Conrail, NS acquired several SD40 locomotives that had been rebuilt by Conrail. Conrail so loved their SD40-2’s that in 1993 they decided to rebuild 40 units to ‘Dash 2’ specifications. For this project Conrail chose 30 of their own units and purchased an additional 10 former-Kansas City Southern SD40’s from PAC Rail leasing. Conrail placed these rebuilt SD40-2R’s into the series CR 6960-6999 (Source: “EMD SD40-2R Prototype Information”, http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/sd402r/sd402rproto.html).