EMD F40PH
EMD F40PH / F40PHR | |
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Morrison-Knudsen (MK) (MPI)MotivePower | |
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Specifications | |
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Configuration: | |
• EMD 645E3 | |
Engine type | V16 Diesel |
Alternator | AR10/D14 |
Traction motors | D77 |
Cylinders | 16 |
Performance figures | |
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Maximum speed | 103–110 mph (166–177 km/h) |
Power output | 3,000–3,200 hp (2.2–2.4 MW) |
The EMD F40PH is a four-axle 3,000–3,200 hp (2.2–2.4 MW)
Amtrak retired its fleet of F40PHs in the early-2000s in favor of the
Background
Amtrak inherited an aging and mechanically incompatible fleet of diesel locomotives from various private railroads on its startup in 1971. The most modern locomotives remained in private hands for freight service, or to operate the various commuter services which, by law, did not pass to Amtrak.[3] To replace these Amtrak ordered 150 EMD SDP40F locomotives, which began entering service in 1973. These were supplemented by 25 GE P30CHs which entered service in 1975. The SDP40F was a troubled design; problems with weight distribution led to a series of derailments in the mid-1970s.[4] Meanwhile, the poor truck design of the P30CH (and the electric GE E60CP) curtailed further orders of that unit when Amtrak found itself needing more short- and medium-distance power in the spring of 1975.[5]
Design
The design of the F40PH was based on the
For passenger service the F40PH has another electrical alternator, the
In the initial design the battery box and
The designation "F40PH" stood for the following: "F" for the full-width cowl carbody, "40" as the locomotive is part of EMD's 40-series (based on the GP40-2 freight locomotive), "P" for passenger service, and "H" for head-end power.[14]
History
Amtrak ordered its first 30 EMD F40PHs on May 8, 1975. The first of the new locomotives entered service on April 9, 1976. Amtrak intended the locomotives for short routes such as the San Diegan in California and Northeast Corridor services in the then non-electrified route portion between New Haven, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts.[5]
The long-distance routes were protected by the then-new
In the spring of 1977 Amtrak traded 40 EMD SDP40Fs back to EMD. Components including the prime mover were installed into an EMD F40PH frame. The 40 rebuilt locomotives, designated F40PHR, were identical to new-build EMD F40PHs, incorporating the larger fuel tank and more powerful HEP generator which had become standard.[16]
Amtrak ultimately acquired 132 F40PHRs in this manner — which combined with new orders between 1975 and 1988 and with the purchase of six GMD F40PHs from GO Transit in 1990 — led to a fleet of 216 locomotives, the country's largest fleet.[17][note 1]
The first commuter rail operator to order F40PHs was Chicago's
The F40PH performed well for Amtrak: at the start of the 1990s only four had been retired due to wrecks. The locomotive was at the center of Amtrak's advertising.[20] Trains magazine estimated that on average, each F40PH traveled as many as 175,000 miles (282,000 km) a year.[21]
Amtrak began replacing the F40PH with the
The EMD F40PH has continued to serve VIA Rail into the 21st century: between 2007 and 2012 VIA refurbished its entire fleet for
Three ex-Amtrak F40PHs have been preserved: No. 231 is owned by Dynamic Rail Preservation and located at the Nevada Southern Railway,[29] No. 281 is at the California State Railroad Museum, and No. 307 is at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.[30] Coaster donated two of its F40PHM-2C locomotives that were retired on February 8, 2021; 2103 was donated to the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum, and 2105 to the Southern California Railway Museum.[31]
Variants
The longevity of the F40PH has led to numerous conversions, rebuildings, and remanufacturings. In some instances new locomotives were assembled using EMD components. Several transit agencies lengthened their locomotives to include a separate HEP generator. These were designated F40PH-2C and F40PH-CAT where
As Amtrak's F40PH fleet was replaced by newer
Some F40PHs found their way into freight service, after suitable modifications. The F40M-2F, which runs on the
Original owners
Electro-Motive Division manufactured 475 F40PHs of all types between 1975 and 1992. The orders for GO Transit and VIA Rail Canada were built by General Motors Diesel (GMD), the company's Canadian subsidiary. Morrison-Knudsen (M-K) and its successor MotivePower (MPI) remanufactured another 31 locomotives between 1988 and 1998.[17]
Railroad | Model | Quantity | Road numbers |
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Altamont Corridor Express | MPI F40PH-3C | 6 | 3101–3106 |
Amtrak | EMD F40PH | 78 | 200–229; 270–279; 300–309; 332–359 |
EMD F40PHR | 132 | 230–269; 280–299; 310–331; 360–400; 401–409 | |
Caltrain | EMD F40PH-2 | 20 | 900–919 |
MPI F40PH-2C | 3 | 920–922 | |
Coaster | M-K F40PHM-2C | 5 | 2101–2105 |
GO Transit | GMD F40PH | 6 | 510–515 |
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority | EMD F40PH | 18 | 1000–1017 |
EMD F40PH-2C | 26 | 1050–1075 | |
M-K F40PHM-2C | 12 | 1025–1036 | |
Metra | EMD F40PH-2 | 11 | 174–184 |
EMD F40PHM-2 | 30 | 185–214 | |
NJ Transit | EMD F40PH | 17 | 4113–4129 |
Regional Transportation Authority | EMD F40PH | 74 | 100–173 |
Speno | EMD F40PH-2M | 4 | S1–S4 |
Tri-Rail | M-K F40PHL-2 | 5 | 801–805 |
M-K F40PH-2C | 3 | 807–809 | |
VIA Rail |
GMD F40PH-2 | 59 | 6400–6458 |
Total | 509 |
See also
- List of GM-EMD locomotives
- List of GMD Locomotives
Notes
Footnotes
- ^ a b c McDonnell 2015, p. 202
- ^ a b Simon & Warner 2011, p. 42
- ^ Holland 2009, p. 57
- ^ Holland 2009, p. 58
- ^ a b Holland 2009, p. 59
- ^ Holland 2009, p. 60
- ^ Solomon 2016, p. 33
- ^ a b c Graham-White & Weil 1999, p. 56
- ^ McDonnell 2002, p. 183
- ^ Pinkepank & Marre 1979, p. 76
- ^ McDonnell 2002, p. 184
- ^ McDonnell 2002, p. 182
- ^ Solomon 2016, p. 34
- ^ Ingles 1975, p. 25
- ^ Ingles 1975, p. 24
- ^ Holland 2009, p. 61
- ^ a b c d Graham-White & Weil 1999, p. 59
- ^ Cook 1991, p. 50
- ^ Simon & Warner 2011, pp. 27–30
- ^ a b c Holland 2009, p. 62
- ^ Graham-White & Weil 1999, p. 58
- ^ Graham-White & Weil 1999, p. 60
- ^ Lustig 2002, p. 24
- ^ Johnston 2002, pp. 45–46
- ^ "VIA Rail Canada and CAD Railway Industries Ltd. Sign $100 Million, 5-year Contract to Rebuild 53 F-40 Locomotives" (PDF). Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ^ "Backgrounder: The locomotive rebuild program" (PDF). Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ^ "More plastic for your wallet: A look at Canada's new polymer bills". CBC News. November 7, 2013. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
- ^ "Locomotives – F40PH-2". VIA Rail. 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2018.
- ^ Mitchell, Alexander D. IV (January 6, 2019). "Historic Diesels relocated from Utah to Nevada". Trains News Wire. Archived from the original on August 30, 2020. Retrieved January 7, 2019.
- ^ "Amtrak F40s: Where Are They Now?". On Track On Line. June 1, 2017. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
- ^ "Coaster F40 Bound for Southern California Railway Museum". July 20, 2022.
- ^ a b c Graham-White & Weil 1999, p. 57
- ^ Wilson 2009, p. 76
- ^ "Rebuilt Metra locomotive returns to Chicago". Railway Gazette International. September 8, 2016. Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
- ^ Solomon 2012, p. 156: "12 [MBTA F40PH] were built in 1992 and 1993 by Boise-based MK Rail using EMD primary components"
- ^ Solomon 2016, p. 34: "In the 1990s, MK Rail/Motive Power Industries' Boise Locomotives constructed F40PH-3Cs [...] These use most of the same fundamental components of the EMD-built locomotives"
- ^ Holland 2009, p. 63
- ^ "Exhibit Train Equipment History". Amtrak. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
- ^ "Rail World Locomotive Leasing EMD F40M-2F Freight Locomotive" (PDF). Rail World. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2016. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
- ^ "Western Maryland Scenic acquires F40 to bolster diesel fleet | Trains Magazine". Archived from the original on March 7, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
References
- Cook, Preston (February 1991). "The SDP40F: From Varnish to Vanquished (Part 2)". Railfan & Railroad. 10 (2): 42–50.
- Graham-White, Sean; Weil, Lester (December 1999). "The little locomotive that did". Trains. 59 (12): 52–61.
- Ingles, J. David (December 1975). "The power behind the pointless arrow". Trains. 36 (2): 22–29.
- Johnston, Bob (September 2002). "Our railroad in Panama". Trains. 62 (9): 43–49.
- Lustig, David (March 2002). "Amtrak's F40 era has all but ended". Trains. 62 (3). – via EBSCO's MasterFILE Complete (subscription required)
- McDonnell, Greg (2002). Field Guide to Modern Diesel Locomotives. Waukesha, Wisconsin: ISBN 0-89024-607-6.
- McDonnell, Greg (2015). Locomotives: The Modern Diesel and Electric Reference (2nd ed.). Richmond Hill, Ontario: Boston Mills Press. ISBN 978-1-77085-609-7.
- Holland, Kevin J. (Spring–Summer 2009). "Amtrak's F40PH: From dark clouds, a silver lining". Railroad History (200): 56–65.
- Pinkepank, Jerry A.; Marre, Louis A. (1979). Diesel Spotter's Guide Update. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: ISBN 0-89024-029-9.
- Simon, Elbert; Warner, David C. (2011). Holland, Kevin J. (ed.). Amtrak by the Numbers: A Comprehensive Passenger Car and Motive Power Roster – 1971–2011. Kansas City, Missouri: White River Productions. ISBN 978-1-932804-12-6.
- Solomon, Brian (2012). North American Locomotives: A Railroad-by-Railroad Photohistory. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Voyageur Press. ISBN 978-0-7603-4370-8.
- Solomon, Brian (2016). Field Guide to Trains: Locomotives and Rolling Stock. Minneapolis, Minnesota: ISBN 978-0-7603-4997-7.
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