EMD F7 - Preservation

Preservation

• The Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad (as of October 2011) operates an FP7A (#600) in main line freight service. The unit is the former Milwaukee Road #96A, frame number 3073-A1 built January 1951. This unit was owned previously by Glenn Monhart and was leased and used in both freight and passenger service by Wisconsin & Calumet (WICT) in the Illinois Central passenger paint scheme.
• The Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, CA rosters two former Western Pacific Railroad F7As: WP 917-D and 921-D. These engines are part of the museum's popular "Run a locomotive" program. Their roster also includes an FP7 passenger version, WP 805-A.
• The California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, CA has the former Western Pacific F7A 913. This engine is currently listed as serviceable. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe No. 347C GM-EMD 1949 F-7A was given as a gift to the museum by the AT&SF Ry in March 1986 and is repainted Super Chief warbonnet colors. This engine is currently listed as operable. Southern Pacific No. 6402 GM-EMD 1952 F-7A given as gift by the Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railroad and Historical Society in June 1978. This engine is currently listed as operable.
• The Grafton and Upton Railroad in Grafton, Massachusetts operates one F7A as a daily switcher, #1501.
• The Fillmore and Western Railway in Fillmore, CA has two F7As that are operational.
• The Monticello Railway Museum in Monticello, IL allows guests to operate their Wabash Railroad F7A #1189 for a donation through the "Throttle Time" program.
• The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, Baltimore, MD, has former Western Maryland Railway F7A 236 in operating condition.
• The Boston & Maine Railroad had 4 F7A's with accompanying B units, numbered 4265-4268 (A & B). #4267A was demolished in a derailment. #4266 survives at this writing, at the Conway Scenic RR in North Conway NH, where it is rostered as a spare unit and operated frequently. It is owned by the 470 RR Club of Portland ME and operated under a lease agreement with CSRR. #4268 is also owned by the 470 Club, and is on static display (exterior only) at CSRR. The prime mover has been removed. #4265 is on static display at the Gorham Historical Society at the former Grand Trunk RR depot in Gorham, NH. It is also inoperable but is being converted into a movie theater/picture gallery with access to the cab.
• The Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, MN owns a Milwaukee Road F7 Booster unit, 71B. It was used to power a snow plow.
• The Don Rhodes Mining and Transport Museum at Port Hedland, Western Australia, has a former Western Pacific Railroad F7A: 923A. This was sold to Mt. Newman Mining and operated as lococmotive 5451 before being transferred to the Shire of Port Hedland. It is now a static display, with the prime mover removed.
• The Minnesota Transportation Museum owns Great Northern Railway F7A 454-A, which is painted in Northern Pacific Railway colors, unrestored, and lacking its internal machinery. They also have steam heat car 16, which the Great Northern constructed from F7B 458-B, originally 306-B.
• The Galveston Railroad Museum owns Texas Limited #100 (ex-Entertainment Trains, Inc., exx-Louisiana & North West, exxx-Southern Pacific #6379) and #200 (ex-Entertainment Trains, Inc., exx-Louisiana & North West, exxx-Wellsville, Addison & Galeton, exxxx-Pinsley shortline, exxxxx-Southern Pacific #6309) are both F7A (with cabs) units built by General Motors' Electro-motive Division. #100 bears builder's number 3112B2F and #200 bears number 3039A14. This duo heads the Texas Limited passenger train which made runs to and from Houston until track speed restrictions and liability insurance costs ended operations. The engines are back to back, allowing the engines to run around the consist when a destination is reached and have a cab end facing forward for the return trip. The engines can also be separated and operate in a push-pull mode, with one engine on each end of the train. There is an odd history about #100. The frame number (stamped in the metal below the air hoses on the back end of each unit), #3112B2F, is supposed to have been Chicago & Northwestern F7B (without cab) #4092, built in July 1952, not a Southern Pacific A unit. It is speculated that the frames were mixed up at the factory before assembly. CNW 4092B was scrapped in 1976. Both F7A units were scrapped in 2011, after extensive damage resulting from being submerged in saltwater after Hurricane Ike.
• The Indiana Transportation Museum owns two former Milwaukee Road F7A's #83 & #72, one F7B #68 & one FP7 #96. #83 & #96 operated in the Monon Railroad passenger livery at the ITM. #83C (#72A) is being restored to Monon freight colors. B-Unit #68 will be restored to match #72.
• The United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey owns two former C&NW F7As that were acquired from New Jersey Transit upon their retirement in 1991. The Units were leased to the Metro North Commuter Railroad on the condition that they would be returned at the end of their lease in operating condition. Both units are operable and currently painted for Lehigh Valley (#578 and #576). #578 is equipped with Head End Power while #576 does not appear to be Passenger Equipped. Both units are operated by the Cape May Seashore Lines and stored in Tuckahoe, NJ.