EMD F40C

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EMD F40C

Specifications
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD)
Model	EMD F40C
Build date	March – May 1974
Total produced	15
Gauge	4 ft 8¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm)
Length	68 ft 10 in (20.98 m)
Prime mover	EMD 645E3B
Cylinders	16
Power output	3,200 hp (2,390 kW)
Career
Railroad(s)	Milwaukee Road, Metra
Locale	Chicago, Illinois, and its northwest suburbs
Disposition	Twelve sold to Helm Leasing in East St. Louis, Illinois; all presumed scrapped. One (#610) sent to National Railway Equipment Company in Dixmoor, Illinois. Two (#611 and #614)are currently stored in the Western Avenue Railyard.

The EMD F40C is a 6-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between March and May 1974 for commuter rail service. It is powered by a 16-cylinder EMD 645E3B, which can produce 3,200 horsepower (2,390 kW). It uses the same frame as the EMD SD40-2, giving it an overall length of 68 feet 10 inches (20.98 m). All 15 examples were ordered by a publicly funded agency to provide for upgrading of service over Milwaukee Road lines west and north from Chicago to Elgin and Fox Lake Illinois. The units later became a part of the Metra locomotive fleet when that agency came to oversee heavy-rail commuter service in Northeast Illinois. All units of the type were withdrawn from regular service with the arrival of new MP36PH locomotives in 2003-2004. Thirteen locomotives were sold to locomotive leasing corporations, although units 611 and 614 were retained and kept on the property in the Western Avenue railyard.

In the spring of 2009, units 611 and 614 were placed back into revenue service on both of Metra's ex-Milwaukee Road commuter lines. This is being done to cover schedules while the oldest units in Metra's EMD F40PH fleet are off the property being rebuilt. Along with a small fleet of HEP-equipped EMD SD70MAC locomotives operating on the Alaska Railroad, the F40Cs are the last six-axle passenger locomotives in daily service in North America.

The locomotives were ordered in two batches, EMD order numbers 73612 (13 locomotives) and 73689 (2 locomotives).^[1] They were all named in Metra service.^[2]

Serial	Build date	MILW road #	Metra road #	Name
73612-1	Apr 1974	51	611	Village of Ontarioville
73612-2	Apr 1974	52	612	State of Illinois
73612-3	Apr 1974	40	600	Village of Bartlett
73612-4	Apr 1974	41	601	City of Elgin
73612-5	Apr 1974	42	602	Village of Bensenville
73612-6	Apr 1974	43	603	Village of Schaumburg
73612-7	Apr 1974	44	604	Village of Elmwood Park
73612-8	Apr 1974	45	605	Village of Hanover Park
73612-9	Apr 1974	46	606	Village of Itasca
73612-10	Apr 1974	47	607	Village of River Grove
73612-11	Apr 1974	48	608	Village of Roselle
73612-12	May 1974	49	609	Village of Streamwood
73612-13	May 1974	50	610	City of Wood Dale
73689-1	May 1974	53	613	Village of Round Lake
73689-2	May 1974	54	614	Edward F. Brabec

References

↑ "EMD SDP40F, F40C Order Numbers". Unofficial EMD Homepage. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
↑ Logan, Brad. "Metra Locomotive Roster". Retrieved 2006-11-17.

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