With Caltrain electrification infrastructure and trainsets fully in effect and now all of the JPBX F40's permanently sidelined, what does the future hold for those units? Are Niles Canyon Railway/Pacific …

The 1985-87 batch will be 37~39 years old in 2024. They last received major overhaul at 2000, and deferred another overhaul as it would be too close to the start of electrify service. So it is likely if no …

NJ TRANSIT has just two EMD F40 locomotives remaining in active service (from an order of 17 delivered in 1981). These units have been primarily used in back-to-back fashion in work train …

Bachmann Author: BNATSFMarkus I have 2 Walthers F40 in Amtrak Phase III paint and yes,the paint,especially the stripes,are a bit thick, but detailing is easy done and they run great. My pull a …

On Monday, August 19, I took a quick trip to San Francisco and back to shoot some of the Caltrain F40PH locomotives that as discussed here are entering their final month of service as planned all …

The ACE F40's are F40PH-3C's that have a stretched frame to accomadate the seperate HEP genset at the rear of the carbody. They're not the "thunder boxes" the Amtrak F40PH's were.

They were new built by MPI in the late 1990's with longer frames and separate HEP gensets, after EMD had ceased production of regular F40's. Both ACE F40PH-3C #3103 and Caltrain F40PH-2C #922 …

> F40's - was there a legal loophole ? Another article on the transfer says they got a waiver, so they could ship them without destroying the prime movers. "To send the trains to Lima for further use, …

This is also the same reason that an F40 won't run at 904 rpm in run 8 when not producing HEP, 904 rpm and 893 rpm would require more train wires, etc. This lower top end engine speed could also …

[ Reply To This Message ] [ Quote ] Date: 07/21/10 19:47 Re: Amtrak F40 In Surfliner Colors???? Author: Evan_Werkema F40PHR231 Wrote: > Yup, Amtrak painted 381, 383, 399, and 415 in > …