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SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY ISSUE •
16 EXTRA PAGES!
ClassicTrains
Spring 2015
T H E G O L D E N Y E A R S O F R A I L R OA D I N G
15
YEARS
2000-2015
Santa Fe FTs speed
a freight out of
Chicago, 1946
F-unit
75-year tribute to the
diesel that revolutionized
railroading
p. 20
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Evolution of a classic, FT to FL9
On the road with F3 demonstrators
p. 48
No respect: the underappreciated FP7
p. 56
Boston & Maine’s FTs
p. 42
• F-unit photo gallery
p. 68
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F
Another double
anniversary issue
ive years ago, when Classic Trains reached age 10, we devoted our Spring
2010 anniversary issue to the commemoration of an even more significant
event: the end of steam on North America’s major railroads, which occurred
When 1940 began, the first of the F series, FT No. 103, had just embarked on its
50 years before. In this, our 15th anniversary issue, we salute the locomotive that,
more than any other, was responsible for vanquishing steam: Electro-Motive’s F unit.
11-month demonstration tour; by year’s end, a large and growing portion of railroad-
ing was convinced that the future lay in diesels. On the 75th anniversary of No. 103’s
big year, we’ve filled this issue with material on the FT and the F models it spawned.
As we did in our Summer 2012 issue when the E unit turned 75, we’ve engaged
diesel authority Preston Cook to explain the evolution of the series, from FT to FL9
[page 20], and to show, in a cutaway drawing, an F unit’s internal components [54].
Preston also wrote pieces covering FT marketing [36] and construction [39]. Jim
Shaughnessy recalls the final years of Boston & Maine’s FTs [42].
Next we present an EMD man’s memories of designing and road-testing F3s [48].
In “Ingles Color Classics,” our Senior Editor gives the oft-overlooked FP7 its due [56],
while “What’s in a Photograph?” analyzes a scene of Union Pacific F3s [66]. Begin-
ning on page 68, “Photo Section” features the F units of 14 railroads. The story of the
New Haven FL9’s troubled birth and long career starts on page 78. Finally, a senior
Chicago & North Western officer remembers his road’s business-train F7s [84].
We hope you enjoy this expanded issue on F units. Without you, our readers, it
would not exist. THANK YOU!
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75 years
Editor
One of FT No. 103’s cab units was restored, along with an FT booster, in 1989 for the model’s
50th birthday celebration at EMD’s La Grange plant. More than 7,600 F units followed No. 103.
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T H E G O L D E N Y E A R S O F R A I L R OA D I N G
Spring 2015
Volume 16 Number 1
15
YEARS
2000-2015
75 years
20
SP&S F3A 802, plus the road’s only E7, wait at the Spokane, Wash., depot in 1965 for the Portland cars off GN’s
Empire Builder.
Ron Sloan photo.
SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
20
F Units, T to 9
• Preston Cook
42
A chronology of dieseldom’s most famous family . . . with a few surprises
EMD’s support services and promotion efforts assured success
“The Diesel That Did It” was also the diesel that EMD learned from
Boston & Maine’s FTs, miracle machines in 1943, were tired horses by the late ’50s
Boston & Maine’s old FTs earned their keep
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36
Marketing and Delivering the FT
• Preston Cook
39
Re-Engineering the FT
• Preston Cook
42
New England’s Only FTs
• Jim Shaughnessy
An EMD electrical engineer helps create the F3
21
10
48
Early Days at La Grange
• Milo M. Schalla, as told to Robert Schalla
54
Inside an F Unit
• Illustration by Preston Cook
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A cutaway illustration of an F3 shows what was under that streamlined
25
skin
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This Bulldog Gets No Respect
• J. David Ingles
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20
The dual-service FP7 often was misidentified and operated in virtual anonymity
3
9
13
66
What’s in a Photo? UP ‘Mountain Type F3s’
• Jerry A. Pinkepank
The
Butte Special
at Butte, Mont., on August 3, 1961
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Photo Section
F units in action, on 16 railroads in 9 states from Maine to California
19
78
Playing With Fire: The Saga of the FL9
• J. W. Swanberg
EMD had a tiger by the tail with the New Haven’s dual-power unit
F3 innards, and “phases,” explained
© 2015, Kalmbach Publishing Co., CLASSIC TRAINS, Preston Cook a
84
North Western’s Executive F7s
• Chris Burger
IN EVERY ISSUE
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These revived 1950s haulers became C&NW’s roving ambassadors for a decade
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Welcome
Another double anniversary issue
Contributors
Meet this issue’s crew
Head End
Items from railroad history, then and now
Fast Mail
Letters from our readers
True Color
No F units here — IC stuck with the likes of 4-8-2 2604
Fallen Flags Remembered
St. Louis Southwestern, a.k.a. Cotton Belt
Classics Today
Reading’s FP7s: Queens of Diamonds
The Way It Was
Tales from railfans and railroaders
Car Stop
Dodging trolleys in Brooklyn
Ready Track
Brief reviews of new products
Bumping Post
Virginian steam: Afternoon at Norfolk Terminal
The FP7 was
not
just an F7 used on varnish!
78
On the cover:
Santa Fe FT No. 101, in its original blue-and-yellow paint scheme, leads a west-
bound freight at Willow Springs, Ill., in November 1946, in a photo by C. H. Kerrigan (see page 20).
Classic Trains is published quarterly in January (Spring), April (Summer), July (Fall), and October (Winter), (ISSN 1527-0718,
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