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 Post subject: Re: Early E and F series Locomotive Question
PostPosted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 7:21 pm 
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Hi....For a time frame i'd say from the early 1960's until the mid 1980's. There were a lot of former E's from class one's that went into commuter service and a a lot of short line freight roads used former class one F's for freight when the class one's got newer power during the 60's. In the mid 70's a lot of former Amtrak E's which had come from the Class one's when Amtrak took over were either sold off or scrapped when Amtrak started to get the SDP40F's and F40PH locomotives.


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 Post subject: Re: Early E and F series Locomotive Question
PostPosted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 9:53 pm 

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B&M traded some of its FT's to EMD around 1957. I've seen photos of the retired B&M diesels being moved dead through Altoona where PRR was still using steam.

RDG retired its FT's in 1962, F-3's in 1963-64 and F-7's in 1965-1966. Three FP-7's remained to flow into ConRail in 1977 and on to SEPTA. All 3 are preserved. For the freight units it was the minimum time for 15-year equipment trusts to be fulfilled. All were traded on new EMD units.

Other Class 1 roads used old F-units until the 1980's.

Any time between 1957 and 1980 seems to work. Check what your prototype(s) selling the units did. It's a model railroad! The legendary John Allen's Gorre and Daphetid had a dinosaur to move loads on and off flatcars.

Phil Mulligan


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