The Revelstoke Railway Museum of British Columbia is raising money to restore the very first SD40 locomotive built in Canada. Locomotive 5500 was built by General Motors Diesel, the Canadian subsidiary of Electro-Motive Diesel, in 1966 for Canadian Pacific. The locomotive was the first hundreds of SD40s owned by CP, some of which continue to earn their keep on CPKC. 

CP 5500 has been at the Revelstoke museum for over a decade and is now in need of a fresh coat of paint. The museum plans on restoring it to CP’s iconic action red colors. The museum needs to raise $250,000 to complete the restoration and build a structure around the locomotive to protect it. For more information, visit revelstokerailwaymuseum.org.