In the mid-1960s EMD constructed new passenger power for a handful of railroads. These units were modified freight power - SD35s, SD40s and SD45s with steam generators included. Here we see one of them, SDP40 Burlington Northern 6398 (originally Great Northern 324), on the point of an eastbound freight at Baring, on Washington's Stevens Pass, on September 20, 1979. It won't be long now until this area is covered under a thick blanket of snow...
