Talk:EMD F7
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36" dynamic brake fans
I'm guessing that this feature was only seen in those locomotives intended for operating in mountainous regiouns? Or were all of the Phase Is equipped with dynamic brakes? --Badger151 17:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- This was only if dynamic brakes were fitted. Mountain railroads, as a rule, always fitted dynamic brakes (though there are exceptions). Some flatland railroads did so too, because they might still have grades on which dynamic braking was useful Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 17:53, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Good Article Review
This article is currently at Good Article Review. LuciferMorgan 18:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Delisted as a Good Article
This article has been delisted per consensus discussion at Good Article Review. The archived results of the discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Good article review/Archive 18. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 05:39, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
F7 Rebuild Units
During production of the F7 locomotive EMD began to offer rebuild services for wrecked units at its LaGrange Plant. A number of the units rostered on the main F7 page are products of this rebuild program. These rebuilt F units were built from FTs, F3s and F7s. See http://community-2.webtv.net/ajkristopans/REPAIRJOBS/index.html for a listing of these units. The rebuild units include ACL 317, D&RGW 5481, KCS 78C, 32A, 59D, CGW 104B, UP 1464, 1464B, 1464C, 1465, 1466, 1466B, 1466C, GN 350A, 350B, 360A, 360B, 460C, 460D and NYC 2446. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SSW9389 (talk • contribs) 17:06, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
Visible F's
Back a couple of years Railfan & Railroad magazine had an article about the "visible F's" ,- B units used by EMD for training/promotional purposes. Article did not go into much specifics, just that there were apparently 2 F3B's and 1 F7B. Further research has show that the following three are almost certainly the ones in question:
serial 5194 - Monon 64C 2nd
serial 8618 - Santa Fe 32A 2nd
serial 6631 - built as Santa Fe 32A 1st, returned to EMD (engine failure? fire?) rebuilt as F7B, years later sold to Santa Fe as 48A. This is apparently the mysterious B-unit shown in the publicity photos of F7 display units 1950A,B
Anybody care to comment on this??