Passenger Trains > Dirt road to an Amtrak F40 graveyard

Just a few updated photos of the remains of several former Amtrak F40's still at LTEX near Youngstown, Ohio this past Saturday. They have been there a while now, but as always it's a sad sight to see, and it seems that piece by piece they are disappearing.

Somewhere down the road someone will probably stand- much as I did with these remains- and shed a tear in a field for the last remaining GEVO units.

One of the lines of partially cut up units.
Cab section of #351 sits in the weeds.
Both the cab and the rear of #322 are now facing east!

RAD

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Two somewhat intact units, #369 and #388.
What's left of the 590. Not an F40, but still gone.

RAD

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Good stuff there. Do you have shots of the SP units in the background?

Where went the bells and horns?!!

Awesome shots...thanks for sharing!

Horrors, now if someone has a big wallet they could probably get the units that are mostly intact for a really cheap price and then spend a lot of money to put new engines in these things. Question is: where would you run it and what purpose would you use it for?

Say what you may, but these soldiers have outlived their usefulness. Thank you for serving but you only were freight-looking passenger engines.

-john

Boy do I feel old.

I remember my first look at an F40 back in 1976 when they started working the San Diegans. Wow, 35 years ago.

Sad photos but thanks for posting.

JMW

Eye popping and sad photos. Thanks for sharing.

jcaestecker Wrote:
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> Say what you may, but these soldiers have outlived
> their usefulness. Thank you for serving but you
> only were freight-looking passenger engines.

Then how come others find it cost-effective to rebuild them? I'm thinking of Via in particular.

Ray

rrman6 Wrote:
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> Where went the bells and horns?!!

eBAy. ; > )

Cheers,
Jack

Amtrak shouldn't have dumped them so soon in favor of those junk P40s and P42s. Could've rebuilt those F40s with 710s and made em more fuel efficient... just thinking out loud.

-Mike

Good riddance to the rolling torture chambers. You haven't lived until you've spent 12 hours on one of those jalopies while it was providing H.E.P. They didn't ride that well and they weren't that reliable either. Spent a fair amount of time on SFE's F/FP-45s and AMTK's P-40/42s and preferred any of them to F-40s. The fans denigrate the excellent SW-1500s as cruds but revere F-40s - too bad.

They served Amtrak well......and did a good job.......I remember I saw my first one at South Station, Boston....Boy time flies.......

Oh, lost youth! They did their job, but it's interesting that they were so disliked by so many employees. They were certainly LOUD, and I can well imagine the fatigue that racket induced. RIP! Kurt.

The retrofit of double doors that was done on a few of them helped with the noise...but not enough.

A BIG advantage of the Genesis engines is survivability for the engineer(s) in a wreck. Several of them
who survived wrecks in Genesis units would probably have been killed in an F40PH.

Is this place easy to get in to? I'm in Ohio in a couple of weeks and I'd love to look round.

Rugby
UK

rugbytown Wrote:
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> Is this place easy to get in to? I'm in Ohio in a
> couple of weeks and I'd love to look round.
> Rugby
> UK

Due to theft, both metal and railfan, you really should get permission to visit LTEX instead of just wandering around the property. We had prior permission arranged, but were approached within minutes of being out of our car with someone making sure we had an OK to be there. The local police also watch the area pretty close. Drop me a PM if you can Rugby.

RAD

Amtrak784 Wrote:
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> Horrors, now if someone has a big wallet they
> could probably get the units that are mostly
> intact for a really cheap price and then spend a
> lot of money to put new engines in these things.
> Question is: where would you run it and what
> purpose would you use it for?

Trainorders own, F40PHR231 has his own F40 ... perhaps he can answer this question?

Regards,
Burlington John

0307 Wrote:
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> You haven't lived until you've spent 12 hours on
> one of those jalopies while it was providing
> H.E.P.

I did about two hours in an F40 providing HEP one day and that was enough for me.