Spring 2015

A chronology of dieseldom’s most famous family, from the FT to the FL9, plus some units that were planned but never built

Watch clips from F Units in Action, a VHS program released in 2000 by Kalmbach Publishing Co.

EMD’s support services and promotion efforts assured success for a quality product

“The Diesel That Did It” was also the diesel that EMD learned from

Miracle machines in 1943, B&M’s FTs were tired old horses by the late 1950s

An EMD electrical engineer helps create the F3

EMD built more than 1,100 F3As; here’s what was under their steamlined skin

EMD’s dual-service FP7 — misidentified and misunderstood by many — often operated in virtual anonymity

See a list of FP7s displayed, and active at museums or tourist lines.

The Butte Special at Butte, Mont., August 3, 1961

F units in action, on 14 railroads in 10 states from New Jersey to California

EMD may have been the dominant  locomotive builder in the mid-1950s, but it had a tiger by the tail with the New Haven’s dual-power cab unit

See a list of all known surviving FL9 units.

As railroading changed, these revived 1950s haulers became roving C&NW ambassadors for a decade