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The New Haven RR itself rebuilt two units at their Lamberton Street Shop, numbers #542 & 543. These units kept their steam generators and single-bulb headlights but were not upgraded to nose-mounted Multiple Unit capability. Repainted in the black cab/orange hood paint scheme. The remaining 21 New Haven RS-3's were never rebuilt. [12]
In 1969, the New Haven FL9 fleet passed to Penn Central upon the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad, as the ICC required the newly formed company to assume control of the bankrupt New Haven. Some were repainted in Penn Central schemes, while others remained in their former New Haven paint.
Amtrak GE P42DC locomotive #145, which is painted in Amtrak's Phase III scheme, and is one of 16 Amtrak heritage units. A heritage unit or commemorative locomotive is a railroad locomotive painted in an honorary paint scheme; usually the paint scheme is that of a now-defunct railroad that merged with or was acquired by the locomotive's owner.
Introduced in 1972, Phase I was the first paint scheme to be implemented system-wide on Amtrak's trains. [6] It was the first new paint for most equipment under Amtrak, for a small number of locomotives that had been painted into experimental and promotional paint schemes. [6]
Stored in South Haven, Kansas: Nevada Northern 204 February 1956 SD9E Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SP) BHP Nevada Railroad (BHP) September 18, 1995 Undergoing a repaint job to a new paint scheme by the Nevada Northern Railway Museum in Ely, Nevada [6] Southern Pacific 5472 March 1956 SD9E Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SP)
From 1940 through 1953, GE participated in a design, production, and marketing consortium for diesel-electric locomotives with the American Locomotive Company. In 1956 the GE Universal Series of diesel locomotives was founded for the export market. The U25B was the first attempt at the domestic market since its termination of the consortium ...
In December 2020, the Metro-North board approved a Federal Transit Administration funded $334.9 million contract for Siemens to manufacture and test 19 dual-mode locomotives with an option for an additional eight more. 19 of the 27 dual-mode Locomotives ordered have already been fully approved for $231.6 million with the other eight at a cost of $82.1 million.
Amtrak operates a fleet of 2,142 railway cars and 425 locomotives for revenue runs and service, collectively called rolling stock.Notable examples include the GE Genesis and Siemens Charger diesel locomotives, the Siemens ACS-64 electric locomotive, the Amfleet series of single-level passenger cars, the Superliner series of double-decker passenger cars, and 20 Acela Express high-speed trainsets.