The EMD GP40-based passenger locomotives were derivatives of the General Motors EMD GP40 diesel-electric locomotive. For passenger service, the locomotives required extra components for providing steam or head-end power (HEP) for heating, lighting and electricity in passenger cars.
Read more about EMD GP40-based Passenger Locomotives: GP40TC, GP40P, GP40-2H, GP40PH-2, GP40PH-2A, GP40PH-2B, GP40FH-2, GP40WH-2, GP40-2W, GP39H-2, GP40MC
Famous quotes containing the words passenger and/or locomotives:
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:—”
—Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)