SCP A-1722

Item #: SCP A-1722

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP A-1722, when not used in daily operation, is to be stored at site-45's locomotive terminal with its Throttle removed from the cab, and placed in a padlock safe in Lieutenant (REDACTED) office. At no point in time are any personal aside from its normal operational crew, Doctor (REDACTED), or repair crews allowed on-board SCP A-1722 due to its anomalous nature. Any un-authorized personal found to have violated the Special Containment Procedures are to be detained by Site Security, and reprimanded by Supervisor (REDACTED BY ORDER OF 05).

Description: SCP A-1722 is a locomotive resembling an Electro Motive Division SD40-2 painted in the Union Pacific Railroad Company's standard yellow paint scheme with the number 3982 on both sides of its control cabin. Interesting, records show The Union Pacific Railroad Company never rostered a SD40-2 with said number. Rather, the only 3982 was a 4-6-6-4 "Challenger" Steam locomotive. Which was scrapped in 1956. Aside from its number, SCP A-1722 is fully cognitive, capable of speech and independent locomotion without the need of a operator, speaking in a accent similar to someone from the North-Western region of the United States Of America. SCP A-1722 has shown understanding of modern history, as well as a brief history of Railroading in the United States. On questioning (See Audio Log A-1722) SCP A-1722 has "memory's" of its time on the Union Pacific Railroad Company. As well as the now defunct Missouri Pacific Railway Company.

SCP A-1722 was first discovered at a railcar storage facility in (REDACTED) Colorado, after several complaints to security where made regarding a possible trespasser at the facility. After a brief encounter where SCP-A1722 spoke to a Security Guard. The foundation was alerted, and SCP A-1722 was brought to site-45, the only site in the mainland united states with railway access, under the guise of a "Shortline" Railroad Company. SCP A-1722 is primarily used on the 130 miles from site-45 to the Railway transfer near (REDACTED) Illinois.

Audio Log from A-1722:

Interviewer: Doctor Red
Interviewed: SCP A-1722

<Begin Log>

Dr. Red: "Hello SCP A-1722. We have a couple of questions for you regarding your previous history before you where brought here."

SCP A-1722: [SCP A-1722's front headlight shined on dim] "Do you mean back on the Mopac and Union Pacific?"

Dr. Red: "Yes, We couldn't find any records of you on either railways, As far as we're aware. Your a ghost in the system."

SCP A-1722: "Interesting, you sure you lads didn't check the wrong records? It ain't like I was the only SD40-2 built for UP."

Dr. Red: "That is a possibility, but we're getting off topic, what do you remember from the.. Mopac? And The Union Pacific Corporation?"

SCP A-1722: "It was about.. 1977, and I was in a batch of 30 SD40-2's built for the Missouri Pacific. I mostly operated in eastern Missouri until 82, when the Union Pacific bought out the Mopac, and I was repainted in my current paint job. I mostly switched around L.A until 2006, when I was dumped off at that storage site, and well. You lot took me here."

Dr. Red: "Interesting.. When did you first discover you where capable of speech, and where there any others like you?"

SCP A-1722: "I first figured out how to talk a few months after I was built. I usually used it to scare the crap out of any Crew I didn't like. And yeah, there was a few other's who could talk, mostly the older GP locomotives from the mid 40s and 50s. But there was one or two modern engines who could talk."

Dr. Red: "I see, I believe that's all the questions we had, I understand you have a assignment. Good day SCP A-1722." [Dr. Red gets up from his folding chair and leaves the engine terminal]

SCP A-1722: "Yikes.. What a jackass." [SCP A-1722's horn blasts three times, reversing out of the engine terminal. Tape runs out here.]