A note from Ken Lanovich: EMD 462 was scrapped at Midwest Metalics (Pielet Bros) in 1998. They held it for some time, offers were made to buy it, but no group ever came up with the cash. The last offer was to buy the cab for a restaurant in downtown Chicago but that fell through. I remember pieces of it went to Larry's T.E. when the property was being cleaned up. Anybody need an F unit pilot? The 462's pilot and a brand new one from EMD went to LTEX when Midwest shut down.

The unit is clearly under test, there are cables coming out of the cab window and wrapped around the safety railings along the long hood, and there is a gentleman concerned about something behind the engineer's door. According to the January 1993 issue of Trains Magazine (page 54), in a six year production run, 1255 units were built for USA customers. No SD45's were built new for Canada or Mexico, however, EMD built three more demonstrators, #'s 4352-4354, which were sold to the D&H, were swapped to the E-L for GE power, went back to the D&H, and ended up in Mexico. The first production SD45 was sold to the GN for $276,000.00, numbered 400 and given the name "Hustle Muscle", a name carried over when it was repainted BN green and renumbered to 6430, recently restored to GN paint and number.