#GP60M

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Day 14: EMD GP60M

An EMD GP60 is a 4-axle (B-B) road switcher diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between 1985 and 1994. The GP60 was EMD's first engine that was classified as a "third-generation" locomotive. Hidden behind the electrical cabinet doors on the rear wall of the cab, the GP60 concealed a trio of microprocessors that monitored and managed a host of engine, cooling system and control functions. The engine's on-board microprocessors replaced hundreds of wiring circuits, dozens of relays and all but one module card, making it an improvement among EMD's engines.

Power was provided by a 16-cylinder 710G3A diesel engine, which could produce 3,800 horsepower (2,800 kW). This locomotive was 59 feet 9 inches long and featured a 3,700-US-gallon (14,000 L) fuel tank. The GP60 series shared the same frame as the GP59. Cabless 'B' units of this locomotive model were also built; they were known as GP60B models, purchased exclusively by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Units built with a North American Safety Cab were designated GP60M and all purchased by the Santa Fe. A total of 294 GP60, 23 GP60B and 63 GP60M units were built by EMD. Due to the mainstream focus of railroads on powerful six-axle units, and strict emissions standards, aside from the collaborations with Motive Power Incorporated, the GP60 is the last new EMD "Geep".

Santa Fe followed its 40 standard-cab GP60s with an order for 63 custom GP60Ms. The GP60M featured North American Safety cabs, and was the only 60 Series B-B locomotive with this feature. The nose has a headlight that is slightly offset to the right to accommodate the front door. The first new units delivered in the road's revived "Super Fleet" Warbonnet Paint Scheme. Santa Fe GP60Ms 100–162 were delivered between May and September 1990

models and Route by: Jointed Rail, Auran, and Download Station

[eltristan]

It was a Santa Fe GP60M sandwich 🥪

Santa Fe GP60M #144 Pushes The Maersk Train Up Cajon Pass by emd

[20th-century-railroading]

Saturday Santa Fe

A trio of "warbonnets" move Santa Fe "hot" intermodal traffic Westbound. Power up front are three Santa Fe exclusives: GE B40-8W, EMD GP60M & another B40-8W.

Winona, Arizona February 1995

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Dozing the line por Chris Guss Por Flickr: BNSF dispatched a Snow Dozer from Superior to Kelly Lake using two GP60Ms for power following a decent dump of snow in the area. It made quite the sight coming under the Highway 23 overpass at Wrenshall, MN

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Sprinting through Joliet by Mike Danneman Via Flickr: Santa Fe’s 165 train speeds through Joliet Union Station led by a fairly new EMD GP60M No. 151 at Joliet, Illinois, on September 2, 1990.

Photo by Mike Danneman

[eltristan]

ATSF GP60M wide-cab and Booster pairs on the hot 🔥 transcon intermodal. One of the nicest freight locomotive sets ever.

AT&SF GP60M 121 at North Bay, CA – 7 Photos by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: North Bay is what the Santa Fe called the UPS facility in Richmond, CA. I caught the 199 Train working the facility in the late afternoon of August 11, 1991. I’m sure you will find the power consist quite interesting: ATSF 121 (GP60M), 340 (GP60B), 339 (GP60B), 105 (GP60M), and 4006 (GP60).

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Classic EMD's and a Hawk by lennycarl08 Via Flickr: Rodeo California

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Fresh Paint by lennycarl08 Via Flickr: The last time I saw these units, they were still Warbonnets. Today they were on Sunday local duty out of Richmond yard switching the carbon plant at Rodeo.

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origami EMD GP60M.

Dang i've never done an origami paper train before... dunno if I can pull that exact model... hmmm

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Superfleet Veterans by Robby Gragg Via Flickr: BNSF GP60M-3 125 rests in Superior, WI.

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Day 2: EMD FP45

Info from Wikipedia

The EMD FP45 is a cowl unit type of C-C diesel locomotive produced in the United States by General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD). It was produced beginning in 1967 at the request of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, which did not want its prestigious Super Chief/El Capitan and other passenger trains pulled by freight style hood unit locomotives, which have external walkways. The EMD SDP45 was a good passenger locomotive, but to the Santa Fe Railway it did not look the part. EMD therefore designed a lightweight "cowl" body to cover the locomotive, though it did not, as in earlier cab units, provide any structural strength, which remained in the frame. The cowl provided sleeker looks, better aerodynamics at speed, and allowed the crew to enter the engine compartment en route for diagnostics and maintenance. Final drive gear ratio for passenger service was 57:20. Santa Fe purchased nine of the locomotives (road numbers 100 through 108), and the Milwaukee Road bought five for its passenger service (road numbers 1 through 5). The Milwaukee Road units were delivered without Dynamic Braking. Reportedly, Illinois Central Railroad was considering an order for five FP45s as well (EMD order #5742, serial #s 34952-34956), but canceled it. Such low production was feasible and profitable for EMD since the locomotive was fundamentally just a re-clothed SDP45. Power, as in the SDP45, was from a V20 645E3 engine (or prime mover) developing 3,600 hp (2,680 kW). The locomotives were delivered painted in the Santa Fe's famous Warbonnet colors, in exactly the same style as the railroad's F units and GE U30CG. When Amtrak took over passenger service, the FP45s were reassigned to fast freight service, particularly Santa Fe's Super C high-speed intermodal run. Seven units were repainted from their original red and silver Warbonnet scheme to the standard blue and yellow freight scheme, while two units were painted into the blue and yellow warbonnet. Their steam generators were removed. Gearing was changed from 57:20 passenger gearing to 59:18 for freight service and they were permanently assigned to the freight pool. All Santa Fe FP45s except for #5995 were repainted in the Southern Pacific Santa Fe (SPSF) merger paint and then repainted in the blue and yellow warbonnet scheme after the merger denial. In June 1989, two of the units, #5992 and #5998, were repainted once more in a modified version of the Warbonnet scheme (this time, displaying Santa Fe in large, red letters "billboard"-style across the side, a livery previously worn by the GE U28CG) and re-designated as #101 and #102. The units reentered service on July 4 as part of the new "Super Fleet" — the first Santa Fe units to be so decorated for freight service. The six remaining units were thereafter similarly repainted and renumbered to 100-107. In 1990 with the purchase of the EMD GP60Ms the units were renumbered back in to the 5990s and were then renumbered again to 90-93 and 95-98 and remained in the Warbonnet scheme until their retirement in the late 1990s, after some 30 years of service. The units purchased by the Milwaukee Road were painted to the Milwaukee's orange and black scheme after Amtrak took over passenger service. A freight-only derivative, the EMD F45, was sold in greater numbers (86) to Santa Fe, the Great Northern Railway, and the Burlington Northern Railroad. Amtrak bought a similar passenger locomotive based on the 3,000 hp (2,240 kW) SD40-2, the SDP40F. The last three F45's in service were on the Montana Rail Link and the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway in the northern and northeastern United States. These units were taken out of service in 2006 for the MRL and 2010 for the NYSW. Between April 1980 and December 1982, Santa Fe's San Bernardino shops rebuilt eight FP45s 5940-5943, 5945-5948. They emerged as 5990-5993, 5995-5998, and were redesignated SDFP45s. The 5944 was wreck retired in September 1981 on account of a wreck at Toland, Texas. Electrically they were upgraded to SD45-2 standards. Mechanically, they were re-geared from 59:18 to 60:17, reducing their top speed from 89 to 83 mph (143 to 134 km/h). In the mid 1980s Santa Fe again re-geared them - this time to 62:15 for 71 mph (114 km/h). Milwaukee Road's FP45s were all sold for scrap in 1981 and 1984. One of Santa Fe's SDFP45 No. 96 was wrecked in 1994 on Cajon Pass. While No. 91 was sold to the Wisconsin Central in January 1995, becoming their #6652 and the rest stayed in service right up until the BNSF merger in 1996, and were retired shortly after the merger.

Those that were not wrecked in service, or sold to other railroads, are on display in museums:

Santa Fe 90: was donated to the Oklahoma Railway Museum in Oklahoma City in a non-operational state. #90 was the last FP45 donated by the Santa Fe and had resided on a RIP track for two years before being delivered to the museum.

Santa Fe 92: was donated to the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. In 2010, volunteers restored 92's control stand so that it could control other locomotives via MU. The locomotive was moved to National Railway Equipment in Silvis, IL during July 2017, where a replacement 20-645E3 engine, AR10 alternator, and a WBO air compressor (all purchased by the museum) were installed. This made the locomotive fully operational for the first time since at least 1997.

Santa Fe 93: preserved at the Great Plains Transportation Museum in Wichita, Kansas.

Santa Fe 95: preserved at the Western America Railroad Museum in Barstow, California.

Santa Fe 97: preserved at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas.

Santa Fe 108: was donated in operating condition minus the cab's air conditioner to the Southern California Railway Museum at Perris, California. This locomotive has the distinction of being the last passenger locomotive ever purchased by Santa Fe. Its restoration was completed in October, 2018 and it is now in operating condition for the first time since 2012.

Models and Route by: The Terminal, Auran, and Download Station

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Maersk GP60M #146 Pulling Away In Cajon by emd

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Santa Fe GP60M No. 135 & GP50 No. 3824 At Barstow by emd

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Alliance bound by Steve Grabman Via Flickr: A northbound Santa Fe intermodal freight (most likely a QLAAL) rolls onto the newly constructed main leading to the recently opened Alliance Yard in Haslet, Texas. Power on this summer morning in 1995 is a GP60M and an SD45R.

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Dozing the line por Chris Guss Por Flickr: BNSF dispatched a Snow Dozer from Superior to Kelly Lake using two GP60Ms for power following a decent dump of snow in the area. It made quite the sight coming under the Highway 23 overpass at Wrenshall, MN

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BNSF City of Hope Christmas specials in Duarte, CA shortly after the merger - with freshly repainted GP60M's and BN executive green passenger cars. Location is the old ATSF Butler siding - between Duarte and Irwindale. December, 1996