On March 15, Caltrain posted the following blog looking back on F40s' history and their impending retirement later this year: https:&#47

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 …

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 …

August of 2006 (is that really almost 20 years ago?). We're at Rocky, CO watching the return trip of whatever it was that they called the summertime version of the ski train.

The electronics on the Genny are more sophisticated, yes. An "F40PH-3", with Dash Three modules and total rewiring (there are a lot of IC SD40's out there built in the mid-SIXTIES with this arrangement), …

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 …

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.

The Unique F40PHL-2; Tri-Rail / Burlington Northern rebuild information courtesy of Sean Graham-White. Morrison-Knudson (now Motive Power Inc. of Boise Idaho) built five F40PHL-2s especially for …

Within a class of look-alike, cookie-cutter locomotives, there tend to be a few that somehow manage to stand out and grab your attention for one reason or another. Back when Amtrak's western long …

Help me recall the make and model of air horns on the Amtrak F40… Posted from iPhone