Text will follow -- eventually, don't hold your breath, the F units are more complicated than the GP9 history... A very quick mention of paint schemes. All F3's were delivered in Black Widow paint, those surviving after 1958 'may' have been painted in 'Blood Nose' paint.

More F7 units arrived starting in December 1949 and continuing thru to July 1953. These were numbered in the new singular unit series, and delivered to SP, SSW and T&NO. Southern Pacific originally numbered F units in sets of four, with one number and an alpha suffix.

The EMD F7 is a model of 1,500-horsepower (1,100 kW) diesel-electric locomotive produced between February 1949 and December 1953 by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors (EMD) and General Motors Diesel (GMD).

The All-American F7 defined railroading during the 1950s; nearly every notable Class 1 operated at least one and many rostered dozens, or even hundreds, of these locomotives. When one pictures Electro-Motive's classic streamlined diesels, the F7 most often comes to mind.

This weather-beaten Southern Pacific EMD F7A awaits restoration at Brightside Yard (located along the Niles Canyon Railway).

1972 SP Motive Power Annual by Joe Strapac, pages 1-21 - F unit history and photo's data etc.

Aside from its steam generator components, the FP7 was nearly identical to the F7. It featured EMD's 16-cylinder, model 567B prime mover - that could produce 1,500 horsepower - and carried the company's D27C traction motors, which offered as …

2021年5月4日 · As an illustration, the photo below (Morris Abowitz photo, Bill Sheehan collection) shows two F7-B units in 1962. As was standard, the only readable lettering is the unit number. Road names were not applied to B units. Both these units have a diamond stenciled above the unit number, indicating the presence of cyclone-type spark arrestors.

2006年7月6日 · More than 75 North American railroads, from Alaska through Canada into Mexico, wound up with them, and 50 roads bought F7’s new. The largest F7 fleets were Southern Pacific’s (530) and Santa Fe’s (472), although the latter was in a sense two fleets, the Warbonnet red/silver passenger or dual-service units and the blue/yellow freight fleet.

Former Southern Pacific f-7's 6378 and 6380 were finally delivered to the Golden Gate Railroad Museum in San Francisco, Ca on May 5th, 2000. More info on where they've been for the last 30 years can be found here. The purpose of this page is simply to display some detail images of the units as they arrived at the museum.