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Pictures of CP 5956
 
Owner: Canadian Pacific Railway
Model:EMD SD40-2Built As:CP 5956 (SD40-2)
Serial Number:A3963Order No:C430-1
Frame Number:Built:10/1980
Notes:DRF-30u
Other locos with this serial:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
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CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1996  Upload Date: 11/1/2016 5:30:33 PM
Location:  Delano, MN
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2) HLCX 4057(SD40-2) CP 5478(SD40-2) SOO 739(SD40)
Views:  1203   Comments: 1
CP 5412
Title:  CP 5412
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1996  Upload Date: 11/1/2016 5:08:07 PM
Location:  Delano, MN
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5412(SD40) CP 5956(SD40-2) HLCX 4057(SD40-2)
Views:  1328   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description:  Despite being led by CP 5956 and CP 5821, this train is actually a Union Pacific transfer run, making its way past the then-public vantage point at Dayton's Bluff.
Photo Date:  11/4/2000  Upload Date: 1/8/2006 1:49:00 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Josh Slusser
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  959   Comments: 0
Fallow field and red units
Title:  Fallow field and red units
Description:  CP 419 rolls west past the field, left fallow this year, at Miller Beach Rd in Owego. IT will be much easier to take pictures here later in the summer that when there is corn.
Photo Date:  5/21/2001  Upload Date: 11/27/2013 2:24:08 AM
Location:  Owego, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5923(SD40-2) CP 6024(SD40-2) CP 5967(SD40-2) STLH 5648(SD40-2) CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  1943   Comments: 1
Headed west
Title:  Headed west
Description:  421 rolls out of Binghamton with behind a set of 40s, typical of the era
Photo Date:  1/14/2003  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 2:58:51 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5695(SD40-2) CP 5956(SD40-2) CP 9006(SD40-2F) CP 5871(SD40-2) CP 5641(SD40-2) STLH 5651(SD40-2)
Views:  1755   Comments: 0
421 in the snow
Title:  421 in the snow
Description:  CP train 421 rolls west at Endwell on a winter day
Photo Date:  1/14/2003  Upload Date: 9/14/2012 5:01:02 AM
Location:  Endwell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5695(SD40-2) CP 5956(SD40-2) CP 9006(SD40-2F) CP 5871(SD40-2) STLH 5641(SD40-2) STLH 5651(SD40-2)
Views:  1636   Comments: 2
2 CP SD40's lead a DODX train through Sanduct
Title:  2 CP SD40's lead a DODX train through Sanduct
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/23/2005  Upload Date: 6/20/2005 12:31:44 AM
Location:  Tehachapi, CA
Author:  Shane Palus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  852   Comments: 0
Pacing the CP
Title:  Pacing the CP
Description:  2 CP SD40-2's lead a DODX train out of Sandcut
Photo Date:  4/23/2005  Upload Date: 6/20/2005 12:31:45 AM
Location:  Tehachapi, CA
Author:  Shane Palus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  755   Comments: 0
Pacing the CP 2
Title:  Pacing the CP 2
Description:  Pacing along side the CP/BNSF DODX train
Photo Date:  4/23/2005  Upload Date: 6/20/2005 12:31:46 AM
Location:  Bena, CA
Author:  Shane Palus
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  999   Comments: 1
Set of 40s
Title:  Set of 40s
Description:  A set of SD40s, a dash 2 and a pair of red barns, leads 11T off the Susquehanna River bridge and into East Binghamton yard.
Photo Date:  4/19/2006  Upload Date: 10/19/2012 12:24:03 AM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2) CP 9005(SD40-2F) CP 9018(SD40-2F)
Views:  1299   Comments: 1
CP 5956 West
Title:  CP 5956 West
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/11/2006  Upload Date: 8/16/2024 10:05:45 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Joe Huss
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2) CP 5917(SD40-2) CP 6021(SD40-2)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/16/2006  Upload Date: 12/1/2006 11:19:02 AM
Location:  Hoffman, MN
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  727   Comments: 0
CP 5956 East
Title:  CP 5956 East
Description:  CP #290 at Duplainville, next stop Bensenville.
Photo Date:  11/23/2006  Upload Date: 12/7/2011 11:04:11 PM
Location:  Pewaukee, WI
Author:  Larry McNaughton
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  738   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description:  Three CP units wait for duty.
Photo Date:  4/5/2007  Upload Date: 4/6/2007 9:18:21 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Alec Holmes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  708   Comments: 0
CP 251
Title:  CP 251
Description:  251 awaits permission to head over the NS diamond at CP-BD at 10:58AM. The second unit is a former UP SD40-2, now owned by NRE.
Photo Date:  12/1/2007  Upload Date: 12/1/2007 7:39:10 PM
Location:  Binghamton, NY
Author:  Austin MacDougall
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5643(SD40-2) NREX 4297(SD40-2) CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  1331   Comments: 0
CP 5956 East
Title:  CP 5956 East
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/2008  Upload Date: 4/5/2025 1:56:14 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Joe Huss
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2) CP 5935(SD40-2)
Views:  209   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description:  A nice consist leads grain hoppers into Pigs Eye.
Photo Date:  3/23/2008  Upload Date: 4/24/2008 5:45:04 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Mark Muraski
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2) CP 5935(SD40-2)
Views:  809   Comments: 0
The train from hell
Title:  The train from hell
Description:  A west bound CP manifest train moves west after yard master S Botts clears the East Bingo yards with a train almost 2 miles long. Even the NS dispatcher cringed with her length as they gave her the railroad to Buffalo
Photo Date:  7/1/2008  Upload Date: 7/3/2008 10:14:26 AM
Location:  Johnson City, NY
Author:  JJ Young III
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  1065   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/26/2008  Upload Date: 1/27/2025 8:17:52 PM
Location:  Waycross, GA
Author:  max linder
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
CP 5956 basks in the early morning sunshine
Title:  CP 5956 basks in the early morning sunshine
Description:  CP 5956 basks in the early morning sunshine
Photo Date:  8/20/2008  Upload Date: 12/13/2008 8:06:27 PM
Location:  Rocky Mount, NC
Author:  Harold Hodnett
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2) CSX 9004(C40-9W)
Views:  1147   Comments: 0
SD40-2 Leader
Title:  SD40-2 Leader
Description:  A nice looking CP SD40-2 brings a grain empty past Humboldt Yard as another train waits on the pass track.
Photo Date:  4/1/2010  Upload Date: 4/1/2010 8:48:00 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Douglas Hildebrandt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  772   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description:  The middle deuce.
Photo Date:  4/24/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 7:13:44 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Alec Holmes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  672   Comments: 0
NS/CP 36T 15
Title:  NS/CP 36T 15
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/15/2010  Upload Date: 5/16/2010 8:48:12 PM
Location:  Butler, IN
Author:  Garth McMains
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 8838(ES44AC) CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  817   Comments: 2
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/15/2010  Upload Date: 5/17/2010 7:47:57 PM
Location:  Goshen, IN
Author:  Pat Huemmer
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  440   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/15/2010  Upload Date: 5/21/2010 8:08:00 PM
Location:  Goshen, IN
Author:  Chad Malinovsky
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  587   Comments: 0
SOO #6053
Title:  SOO #6053
Description:  SOO #6053, followed up by CP #9015 and CP #5956 at Hamilton, ON.
Photo Date:  5/19/2010  Upload Date: 6/30/2010 8:46:16 PM
Location:  Hamilton, ON
Author:  Dave Broughton
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SOO 6053(SD60) CP 9015(SD40-2F) CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  706   Comments: 1
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description:  The last of five EMDs on todays Dresser Turn as it rolls through White Bear Lake.
Photo Date:  7/3/2010  Upload Date: 7/8/2010 12:12:24 AM
Location:  White Bear Lake, MN
Author:  Douglas Hildebrandt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  534   Comments: 0
Dresser Turn
Title:  Dresser Turn
Description:  The sun was setting and the light was quickly going away, but I had just enough to fire off a shot of the Dresser Turn as it rolled through NB on a nice July Day.
Photo Date:  7/3/2010  Upload Date: 7/8/2010 12:27:36 AM
Location:  New Brighton, MN
Author:  Douglas Hildebrandt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 6046(SD60) ICE 6458(SD40-2) ICE 6433(SD40-2) CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  651   Comments: 1
SOO 4445
Title:  SOO 4445
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/19/2010 3:09:13 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Trey Holland
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 4445(GP38-2) CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  711   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/19/2010 3:09:15 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Trey Holland
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  575   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/2010  Upload Date: 7/19/2010 3:10:01 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Trey Holland
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  575   Comments: 0
Train 487, CP's Tomah Sub.
Title:  Train 487, CP's Tomah Sub.
Description:  CP Train 487, Setting out Cars at LaCrosse.
Photo Date:  7/21/2010  Upload Date: 7/21/2010 7:24:06 PM
Location:  La Crosse, WI
Author:  Dennis Weber
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  615   Comments: 0
CP Train 487, CP's Tomah Sub.
Title:  CP Train 487, CP's Tomah Sub.
Description:  CP Train 487, Conductor is Cutting Engines Away from the Setout.
Photo Date:  7/21/2010  Upload Date: 7/21/2010 7:28:19 PM
Location:  La Crosse, WI
Author:  Dennis Weber
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  551   Comments: 1
CP Train 487, CP's Tomah Sub.
Title:  CP Train 487, CP's Tomah Sub.
Description:  CP Train 4;7, Engines Are now pulling Pickup out & Will Double Onto Rest of Train.
Photo Date:  7/21/2010  Upload Date: 7/21/2010 7:31:53 PM
Location:  La Crosse, WI
Author:  Dennis Weber
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  578   Comments: 2
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description:  The last unit out on todays 293 is also a great unit, another SD40-2!
Photo Date:  8/18/2010  Upload Date: 9/26/2010 12:53:49 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Douglas Hildebrandt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  624   Comments: 0
293
Title:  293
Description:  A very night looking CP 293 comes through CP University with a very nice lashup.
Photo Date:  8/18/2010  Upload Date: 9/26/2010 12:50:35 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Douglas Hildebrandt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOO 6051(SD60) CP 5957(SD40-2) CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  837   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/28/2010  Upload Date: 12/14/2010 6:38:22 PM
Location:  Streetsville, ON
Author:  Doug Little
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  458   Comments: 0
CP 281 heads toward downtown with Lake#Michigan filling the air
Title:  CP 281 heads toward downtown with Lake#Michigan filling the air
Description:  Warm waters of Lake Michigan feed the clouds along the lakeshore one mile east.
Photo Date:  1/16/2011  Upload Date: 1/19/2011 4:56:05 PM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  Ed Weisensel
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 8872(ES44AC) CP 5956(SD40-2) CITX 3061(SD40-2)
Views:  873   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/23/2011  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 10:44:55 AM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Steve Nordahl
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  506   Comments: 0
CP layover Power
Title:  CP layover Power
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/23/2011  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 10:45:10 AM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Steve Nordahl
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CP 5739(SD40-2) CP 5956(SD40-2) CITX 3061(SD40-2) CP 5877(SD40-2)
Views:  1204   Comments: 1
CP layover Power
Title:  CP layover Power
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/23/2011  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 10:45:13 AM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Steve Nordahl
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CP 5739(SD40-2) CP 5956(SD40-2) CITX 3061(SD40-2) CP 5877(SD40-2)
Views:  1149   Comments: 0
CP-38Z
Title:  CP-38Z
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/27/2011  Upload Date: 2/2/2011 12:56:19 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Steve Nordahl
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2) CITX 3095(SD40-2) CITX 3061(SD40-2) CP 5877(SD40-2)
Views:  1098   Comments: 0
CP-38Z
Title:  CP-38Z
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/27/2011  Upload Date: 2/2/2011 12:56:23 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Steve Nordahl
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2) CITX 3095(SD40-2) CITX 3061(SD40-2) CP 5877(SD40-2)
Views:  1034   Comments: 0
CP-38Z
Title:  CP-38Z
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/27/2011  Upload Date: 2/2/2011 12:56:26 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Steve Nordahl
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  532   Comments: 0
CP Layover Power
Title:  CP Layover Power
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/27/2011  Upload Date: 2/2/2011 12:56:29 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Steve Nordahl
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5877(SD40-2) CITX 3061(SD40-2) CITX 3095(SD40-2) CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  1088   Comments: 0
CP 39Z
Title:  CP 39Z
Description:  Power for the CP train consists of a quartet of SD40-2s, seen sitting on the Freemansburg Industrial track.
Photo Date:  1/29/2011  Upload Date: 2/22/2011 4:52:16 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Jacob Kempf
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2) CITX 3095(SD40-2) CITX 3061(SD40-2) CP 5644(SD40-2)
Views:  1173   Comments: 0
CP 241
Title:  CP 241
Description:  A very nice looking 241 pulls to a stop in front of Dunn paving on Windsor east end.
Photo Date:  3/2/2011  Upload Date: 3/2/2011 8:14:24 PM
Location:  Windsor, ON
Author:  myles roach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2) NREX 7931(SD40-2) ICE 6413(SD40-2)
Views:  960   Comments: 2
Short westbound manifest
Title:  Short westbound manifest
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/19/2011  Upload Date: 12/21/2011 2:19:44 PM
Location:  Hastings, MN
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  611   Comments: 0
CP 5956
Title:  CP 5956
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/24/2011  Upload Date: 12/25/2011 12:00:59 AM
Location:  Franklin Park, IL
Author:  Jamie Joyce
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
CP 5988
Title:  CP 5988
Description:  Grand view overlooking Duffin's Creek, just east of the City of Toronto border.
Photo Date:  2/6/2012  Upload Date: 3/7/2012 7:48:58 PM
Location:  Pickering, ON
Author:  Neil Barratt
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CP 5988(SD40-2) CP 5956(SD40-2)
Views:  774   Comments: 0

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