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Canada, United States. The EMD F59PH is a four-axle 3,000 hp (2 MW) B-B diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division from 1988 to 1994. A variant, the F59PHI, was produced from 1994 to 2001. The F59PH was originally built for GO Transit commuter operation in the Toronto region. Metrolink in Southern California also ...
The vast majority of GO Transit's active locomotive fleet consists of MP40PH-3C diesel-electric locomotives manufactured by MotivePower in Boise, Idaho. These replaced most of the older EMD F59PH over a 4-year transition program from 2008 to 2011. The new MP40 locomotives are significantly more powerful with 4000 bhp vs the F59's 3000 bhp, and ...
By 1994, GO Transit's locomotive fleet consisted of only the F59PH, which allowed easier maintenance. [42] Despite the fact that the F59PH was designed to last 30 years, the locomotives were less reliable than hoped. In 2009, when the MPI MP40PH-3C series locomotives became available, GO Transit began retiring the F59PH series. [42]
GO Transit (originally short for Government of Ontario Transit) is a regional public transit system serving the Greater Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada.With its hub at Union Station in Toronto, GO Transit's green-and-white trains and buses serve a population of more than seven million across an area over 11,000 square kilometres (4,200 sq mi) stretching from Kitchener in the west to ...
EMD F59PH IV (1994) There are seven EMD F59PH IV locomotives that were acquired from GO Transit. The original numbers for these were #525, #527–528 and #565–568. These were overhauled in late 2010 by the Norfolk Southern Railway and RELCO Locomotive to meet EPA standards and renumbered 120–126. [13] EMD F59PHI (2001)
The line also operates ex-GO Transit EMD F59PH locomotives. The fleet is pooled with the fleets for the North Central Service and the Milwaukee District North Line. As of 2016, three of these locomotives are in operation. Coaches, or passenger railcars, consist mostly of Nippon Sharyo railcars built in the early 2000s.
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[10] [11] These locomotives would later be joined by ex-GO Transit GMD F59PH locomotives. [12] [13] The Tren Interoceánico also purchased 12 passenger coaches from the Railway Excursion Management Company (Railexco), including a dome car named the Stampede Pass, three ex-Amtrak Amfleet coaches, [14] and 5 Budd SPV-2000 coaches. [15]