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EMD F40PH
The EMD F40PH is a four-axle B-B diesel-electric locomotive, built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in several variants from 1975 to 1992 and used by Amtrak and commuter railroads on passenger trains. F40PH variants were also built by MK Rail and MotivePower Industries from 1991 to 2000.〔
==History==
The F40PH was originally intended to haul short- to medium-length trains on Amtrak's shorter routes. Soon after entering service it also began to replace the long-distance EMD SDP40F (Amtrak's first new locomotive model), which had a troubled reputation after reports of rough riding and several derailments blamed on its C-C trucks (which differed from EMD's freight C-C locomotives). The F40 was based on the EMD GP40-series freight locomotives, with a two-axle truck. (The term "F40" by itself can lead to confusion; the first locomotive with that designation was the F40C, a passenger C-C locomotive derived from the SD40-2, similar to the SDP40F but with an HEP generator.)
Hundreds of F40PH units were built, and many can be found in use on passenger, tourist and freight railroads today, such as CSX (on business trains), the Grand Canyon Railway, the Panama Canal Railway, and the Algoma Central Railway. The F40PH was purchased by commuter railroads such as Metra, MBTA, Tri-Rail, Caltrain, NJ Transit and GO Transit; all but GO Transit still use these locomotives. After years of service, Amtrak's large F40PH fleet has been retired; the locomotives were stored, scrapped, sold or converted into non-powered control units after the purchase of new GE Genesis passenger locomotives during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The largest fleet of these locomotives now operates in the Chicago metropolitan area on the Metra system, totaling 117 units. Included in this fleet is the last F40PH built by EMD (as an F40PHM-2) in 1992, Metra #214. After Metra, Via Rail Canada has the second-largest fleet of F40PH-2s (54 units). The MBTA in Boston had 18 original-model "screamer" F40PHs numbered 1000-1012(built 1978) and 1013-1017(built 1980), which have all been retired. The MBTA still has several F40PH-2C and F40PHM-2C locomotives in service, built by EMD in 1987–88 numbered in the 1050-1075 series and MK in 1991 and 1993 numbered 1025-1036.
Commuter agency Metrolink purchased four F40PHs from Amtrak to repower with prime movers from second-hand EMD SD60s bought from UP. Only one was completed, as SCAX #800. A handful were bought by various other railroads and lessors after retirement from Amtrak.
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