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Past Additions -- 1999

15 October 1999

Recent photos of Metro locomotives and a C&NW GeeP, most taken at the Chicago Passenger Terminal. Restoration work in the Norwood Park station.

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Harold Kept many of his photos on sites which no longer exist.

Metra 140 GM EMD F40PH-2 diesel-electric locomotive "City of Mc Henry" pulls its midday outbound scoot from the Norwood Park station.

METX 140, METX, GM EMD F40PH-2, Metra locomotives, Locomotives, photographed on 13 October 1999 at Norwood Park station by Harold A. Driscoll using a Sony Mavica MVC-FD88 digital camera [railfan/1999/10/99a13552.jpg] NEW 15 October 1999

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Metra 140 was built between 1977 and 1980. It is rated at 3,200 horsepower.

Metra numbers 128-149 were built by General Motors Electromotive Division for EMD order number 786293 in 1979-80, EMD model F40PH-2. Metra assigned them to the Union Pacific lines. [Courtesy of Metra Railfan Page]

METX 140, model F40PH-2, built December 1979, builder number 786293-13, named "City of McHenry," assigned to Metra/Union Pacific lines. [courtesy of Metra Locomotive Information, by Mike Azen, February 2000]

METX 140 is a 3,200 horsepower model F40PH-2, built between 1970 and 1989 by General Motors Electro Motive Division. [courtesy of The Official Locomotive Rosters & News, James W. Kerr, 2000 edition, ISBN 0-919295-32-0, August 1999]

Equipment characteristics of METX 140: AAR car type D215 (locomotive), plate type E, external dimensions (length 56' 2", width 10' 8", height 15' 8"). [courtesy of BNSF Equiptment Characteristics, October 1999]

Chicago Rail Photographs collection updated 7 August 2024 at 15:01. Photographs and text copyright © 1998-2000 Harold A. Driscoll, All Rights Reserved. Email address is provided exclusively for personal contact, but emphatically not for use for SPAM net.abuse.