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| Author: | ge44tonner [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
The Oklahoma Railway Museum (ORM) at Oklahoma City has a F9A currently painted as SLSF 814, although it was never owned by the Frisco. It is ex BN 814, exx NP 7003-D, EMD #19741 (9/54). It's in operable condition, and served as motive power for DOWT events in October. http://www.oklahomarailwaymuseum.org/HT ... F%209.html If your definition of "F Unit rollcall" includes FP45, then the ORM also has former ATSF #90 on display. |
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| Author: | Schuylkill Valley [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
Here in Pennsylvania we have a set of FP7's Reading Company No.900,902 and 903 Here are pictures of the two units. All theses picture were copied off Railfan.net and not of my collection. I do have picture of theses units but don't know how to post them. this is at Pennsburg, PA.  East Greenville, PA.  Old Zionsville, PA.  Old Zionsville,PA. taken in the 1960's  Len. |
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| Author: | m3ohwell [ Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:48 pm ] | ||
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Don't forget the CNJ units at Jim Thorpe. Ed K. cp Laurel Run
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| Author: | Howard P. [ Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
At RMNE-- FL9s CDOT-NH 2002 CDOT-NH 2019 MNCR 2033 (NH 2059, last F-unit built, 11/60) F7s CDOT 6690 (ex-PATrain, ex-WA&G, orig. SP) CDOT 6691 (ex-PATrain, ex-WA&G, orig. SP) (6690-91 are really "F38s" under the skin after their 1979 rebuild; one was a T&NO unit originally) |
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| Author: | Howard P. [ Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
Shoes and shoe beams are gone, as Metro-North had taken the third rail capability away once the dual-mode GEs arrived in the mid-90s. The other internal electrical junk for the third rail is still there, I'm pretty sure. Howard P. Rake-Off-Blocks, NY |
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| Author: | David Farlow [ Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
The Indiana Transportation Museum in Noblesville, Indiana has: FP7 Milwaukee 96C (Painted as Monon 96C) F7A Milwaukee 83C (Stored) F7A Milwaukee 83A (Painted as Monon 83A) F7B Milwaukee 68B (Stored) F3B 432B Great Northern (converted by GN into steam heat car) Since the arrival of the road switchers, the F's don't seemed to have received the attention they did in the past. I think that one (either the 96 or 83) is operational at this point. David Farlow Whitewater Valley Railroad |
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| Author: | scottychaos [ Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:54 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
41 New Haven FL9's still exist: http://gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychao ... /index.htm out of 60 built. these are among the youngest F-units still in existance, and the longest operating class of F-units. Several are still working in commuter service even now, almost 50 years of service. One of the surviving FL9's is the last F-unit ever built! Metro North 2033 - ex PC 5059 - nee NH 2059 - EMD FL9 at RR Museum of New England - as MN 2033 - - the LAST F-unit built! built 1960. Scot |
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| Author: | NH1402 [ Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
Unfortunatly that FL9 info is old and many units went to scrap in the last 2 years. http://home.comcast.net/~shadyjay/FL9s.htm I believe only 26 left now, still an impressive number with many preserved. Randy |
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| Author: | pennsy3750 [ Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
New England has a pile of them. Aside from the RMNE collection that Howie mentioned, the CERM group in Willimantic has one. It is reported to be in such a condition as to be made operable without too much effort. Though CERM has other prioroties for the time being, they say eventually they will get it fired up again. It still has the extra electrical gear, but I'm not if the third-rail shoes are still there. Danbury (CT) Railroad Museum has some as well. There are at least two FL9s there, one in NYC colors. If we count Alco units, they have an FPA4/FPB4 in NYC colors. There's also a UP E9 masquerading in faded NYC colors. RMNE also has a New Haven FA-1 that they're slowly restoring. The Conway Scenic in New Hampshire has four. Two FP9s in a CN-inspirted scheme, and two F7s in (authentic) B&M colors. The FP9s run as a matched set most of the time, but one of the F7s is now only a shell. The other sees occasional service. Montreal Maine & Atlantic still has their ex-BAR F3 up in Maine, though its been OOS for years. Also reported to be in decent condition, and could run with minimal work if MMA were so inclined. Metro-North/ConnDOT still have a few FL9s and FP10s on the roster, though their time on the high iron is almost certainly over with the recent arrival of those hideous BL-whatevers being built by Brookville. And of course, NS has their Altoona-based A-B-B-A set. Beautiful engines, particularly when pulling a matching 16-car train. |
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| Author: | Alexander D. Mitchell IV [ Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
Western Maryland F7A 236 at the B&O Railroad Museum. The brokers that bought a bunch of ex-Metro-North coaches also bought a bunch of ex-MBTA rebuilt "F10" locos; I think one is stored and occasionally fired up as back-up loco at a power plant down near Morgantown, Md. Let's have someone add in the pair on the Gettysburg Railway Pioneer Lines operation and at least one on the Southern Railway of New Jersey out of Salem, NJ, the latter not to be confused with the URHS "LV" replica pair last in storage at Tuckahoe, NJ a few weeks ago. |
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| Author: | Howard P. [ Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
CDOT-NH FL9 2019 outside the RMNE Thomaston Shop, 10:22 pm, October 11, 2008. 15 seconds at f/4, 640 ISO, exposure by full moonlight! Attachment: FL9 2019 moonlight.jpg [ 98.05 KiB | Viewed 3582 times ] |
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| Author: | Ron Goldfeder [ Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
The Museum of Transportation in St. Louis has GM #103, one of the original 1939 FTA demonstrators that David Morgan called "The Diesel That Did It," proving that diesels could haul freight trains in competition with steam. There is also an ex-Southern Ry FTB unit that was converted to a steam heater car in the collection. |
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| Author: | Kevin Gillespie [ Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: F unit rollcall |
Western Maryland F7A #236 is at the B&O Museum. She is in excellent cosmetic condition, and may or may not be operable. |
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