page_title: Santa Fe CF7
hierarchical_section_title: Santa Fe CF7
caption_attribution_description: Locomotive #517 runs past the site of the new yard at Suffolk, Virginia after switching the BASF plant
context_page_description: The CF7 is an EMD F-unit railroad locomotive that has had its streamlined carbody removed and replaced with a custom-made, "general purpose" body in order to adapt the unit for switching duty. All of the conversions were performed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in their Cleburne, Texas workshops between February, 1970 and 1978. This was Santa Fe's most notable remanufacturing project creating a total of 132 CF7s. The program was initiated in response to a system-wide need for more than 200 additional four-axle diesel road switchers to meet projected motive power demands on branch lines and secondary main lines.
  Santa Fe's aging fleet of F7 units were approaching retirement age in 1970. These units were remanufactured into switchers and named CF7. Santa Fe used them for a decade and sold many of them to short lines around the states. Many of those were still being used as of 2003.
context_section_description: The CF7 is an EMD F-unit railroad locomotive that has had its streamlined carbody removed and replaced with a custom-made, "general purpose" body in order to adapt the unit for switching duty. All of the conversions were performed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in their Cleburne, Texas workshops between February, 1970 and 1978. This was Santa Fe's most notable remanufacturing project creating a total of 132 CF7s. The program was initiated in response to a system-wide need for more than 200 additional four-axle diesel road switchers to meet projected motive power demands on branch lines and secondary main lines.
  Santa Fe's aging fleet of F7 units were approaching retirement age in 1970. These units were remanufactured into switchers and named CF7. Santa Fe used them for a decade and sold many of them to short lines around the states. Many of those were still being used as of 2003.
caption: Locomotive #517, a CF7, is the main power on the Commonwealth Railway in Suffolk, Virginia.
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