Passenger Trains > Whence Caltrain's diesels & etc.?

I haven't heard anything of the fate of Calltrain's pre-electric equipment for some time now. Would somebody kindly supply an update?

I took this photo of Caltrain #901 facing the soon-to-be victors at CMOF last August, shortly before the electrics took over.

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Can't guarantee absolute accuracy but I've come up with these totals:

∙49 galleries on the NWP in Schellville
∙37 galleries in San Jose(Newhall Yard/Santa Clara Drill/CEMOF)
∙7 galleries in San Francisco
∙41 Bombardiers with only 12 needed on weekdays for Gilroy trains
∙9 active diesels(920-928) with 4 needed for Gilroy trains
∙All 20 F40PH's stored in San Francisco EDIT: see below!

Sale and move to Lima, Peru for the galleries and F40's still pending.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/11/25 14:12 by milepost20.

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Good coverage! I always prefer diesel power to electric, but I guess that's the way the wind is blowin' these days.

Tom Loftus
Omaha, NE

There are a couple of videos posted in the last day or two in the Everything Caltrain group on FB showing at least one move of multiple diesels from SF.

The Santa Clara camera captured the move, too.

I think there were two bunches, but it might have been one that I saw twice. I wasn’t paying that close attention to say for sure.

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walstib Wrote:
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> There are a couple of videos posted in the last
> day or two in the Everything Caltrain group on FB
> showing at least one move of multiple diesels from
> SF.
>
> The Santa Clara camera captured the move, too.
>
> I think there were two bunches, but it might have
> been one that I saw twice. I wasn’t paying that
> close attention to say for sure.
>
> Posted from iPhone

Thanks for posting about those. I saw the videos, too. The videographer said by his count there had been 18 taken down the peninsula. 

Thanks for the illumination!

So, once taken down the Peninsula, where did the F40's wind up? Was my beloved #901 among them?

It was indeed 18 of the 20 F40's that moved out of San Francisco earlier
this week.  The 910 and wreck damaged 919 remain.  The repainted AEM-7 938 
has also left the City.

Equipment has been shuffled around and as of today the 910 is on the south 
end of a cut on track 25 made up of the two holiday train galleries, the two 
holiday train flatcars and the two bay window cabooses  By all appearances 
they look to be the next equipment move south(attached photo taken today from
a passing train).

If that turns out to be the case the only equipment left in San Francisco will
be the 919, the grungy AEM-7 929 and five galleries that I believe have been 
bad order for a very long period.  They may all be scrap material.

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At least they seem to be holding on to enoigh engines amd bomb's for service to salinas and/or backup service to SFO if the electric line goes down.

pdt Wrote:
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> At least they seem to be holding on to enoigh
> engines amd bomb's for service to salinas and/or
> backup service to SFO if the electric line goes
> down.

Service to Salinas? Ha!

When pigs fly!

Highspeed Wrote:
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> pdt Wrote:
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> > At least they seem to be holding on to enoigh
> > engines amd bomb's for service to salinas
> and/or
> > backup service to SFO if the electric line goes
> > down.
>
> Service to Salinas? Ha!
>
> When pigs fly!

no, wait!!    The salinas service is coming right after the dumbarton bridge service starts.     They're going to use a temporal distortion to go back in time and change Jerry Brown's decision to start the dumb CAHSR thing, so there will be money for sensible rail expansion projects that have been talked about for the last 50+  years...

At least one entity has been in discussions to lease Bombardier Coaches.

I wonder if the tariff situation will have an effect with the sale to Peru?