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For the rest of the story, click here.OLD LOCOMOTIVE GETS NEW LOOK AND LIFERare restoration of an engine that powered people across the nation
WASHINGTON — It’s full steam ahead for plans to restore and display one of the F-40PH diesel locomotives instrumental to Amtrak’s survival through the 1980s and early 1990s. At the direction of Amtrak’s president and CEO David L. Gunn and the company’s Board of Directors, the State of North Carolina has received a retired F-40PH for its Transportation Museum in Spencer.
As part of the donation, CSX and Norfolk Southern moved locomotive #307 free of charge from Amtrak’s Beech Grove, Ind. maintenance facility to the museum’s Back Shop Hall, where it will be restored and eventually put on display.
Its good to know that we have several of these preserved, as we're preserving a key piece in Amtrak history. Too bad more couldn't have been done for the E-60's.