Taken December of 1982....this ATSF train is heading westbound...after is just traversed the loop...and is now at Woodford
None are in service; the last were retired by the BNSF in 1999 (IIRC). Six have been preserved at various museums; 90 (Oklahoma City RR Museum) 92 (IRM) 93 (Great Plains Trans. Museum, Wichita, KS) 95 (Western American Railway Museum, Barstow, Ca.) 97 (Age of Steam Museum, Dallas, Tx.) 98 (Orange Empire RR Museum, Perris, Ca.) This site has plenty of other details and pics on the FPs - http://members.aol.com/JFuhrtrain/FP45data.htm They're some of my favorite ATSF units; I recently was in Barstow, and had a chance to swing by the depot where WARM is located, and look over #95. The old girl still looks good.
Here are a few pics 100 Ash Fork, AZ 1990 102 Phoenix, AZ 1990 105 Phoenix, AZ 1990 90 Tulsa, OK 1993 91 Afton,OK 1992
There is a person in Portland, OR that has saved the old Amtrak/Santa Fe/Maersk repainted one and also an Operation Lifesaver F40PH. I think the site is www.f40ph.com ?
No, maybe this! www.f40phr231.org. That was it, but it has expired! Anyhow the SF unit is #644 and it is still painted in the Maersk paint scheme that was a one-off deal for promo's.
The young man in Portland, who works with the Friends of the 4449 and has saved the F40 and F45, is Chris Fussell. Here's the Maersk unit along with Doyle's Great Northern EMD F unit at the roundhouse last month. It's not evident from this photo, but the unit retains the warbonnet scheme, just in different colors. 644 is the number the unit carried when in Amtrak service. Oh, and it's operational, too.
I saw all 3 of those 2 weekends ago when I was up for a wedding. The mersk unit was hidden behind the F40 though. They also had one of the stall doors open I assume with the SP&S engine in it. I just caught the tender. Also, one of the PAs was there in rather sad shape with a primer colored nose. I assume it was the one I saw in Albany Or a few years ago and not the NKP unit.
YoHo, if you saw a PA there in primer, it sure wasn't Doyle's NKP 190. I hadn't heard anything about moving the other one from Albany to Brooklyn and haven't seen anything on the P&W site about it either. Any chance it was the FA?
That might be the one for the Smithoanion back east. (did I spell that right? ) I wonder if that's gonna be painted back into Amtrack colors? An F40PH and a SDFP40 together! Sweet!
