Talk:EMD F7

message: I'm guessing that this feature was only seen in those locomotives intended for operating in mountainous regiouns?  Or were all of the Phase Is equipped with dynamic brakes? --Badger151 17:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This was only if dynamic brakes were fitted.  Mountain railroads, as a rule, always fitted dynamic brakes (though there are exceptions).  Some flatland railroads did so too, because they might still have grades on which dynamic braking was useful Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 17:53, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  36" dynamic brake fans 

message: This article is currently at Good Article Review. LuciferMorgan 18:17, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Good Article Review

message: This article has been delisted per consensus discussion at Good Article Review.  The archived results of the discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Good article review/Archive 18. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 05:39, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Delisted as a Good Article

message: During production of the F7 locomotive EMD began to offer rebuild services for wrecked units at its LaGrange Plant. A number of the units rostered on the main F7 page are products of this rebuild program. These rebuilt F units were built from FTs, F3s and F7s. See http://community-2.webtv.net/ajkristopans/REPAIRJOBS/index.html for a listing of these units. The rebuild units include ACL 317, D&RGW 5481, KCS 78C, 32A, 59D, CGW 104B, UP 1464, 1464B, 1464C, 1465, 1466, 1466B, 1466C, GN 350A, 350B, 360A, 360B, 460C, 460D and NYC 2446.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by SSW9389 (talk • contribs) 17:06, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: F7 Rebuild Units

message: Back a couple of years Railfan & Railroad magazine had an article about the "visible F's" ,- B units used by EMD for training/promotional purposes. Article did not go into much specifics, just that there were apparently 2 F3B's and 1 F7B. Further research has show that the following three are almost certainly the ones in question:
serial 5194 - Monon 64C 2nd
serial 8618 - Santa Fe 32A 2nd
serial 6631 - built as Santa Fe 32A 1st, returned to EMD (engine failure? fire?) rebuilt as F7B, years later sold to Santa Fe as 48A. This is apparently the mysterious B-unit shown in the publicity photos of F7 display units 1950A,B
Anybody care to comment on this??
Andre76.223.76.83 (talk) 00:14, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Visible F's 

message: has C&NWRy drawings and spec sheets for their loco’s, that’s where added stuff (not all that much) comes from. Some existing stuff rearranged. I tried to fix up the refs, but couldn't make this work :  Sammy D III (talk) 13:52, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  infobox, ref 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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message: Contrary to the Diesel Spotter's Guide the first F7 units may have been built in November 1948 for the Denver & Rio Grande Western. These were the D&RGW #5561-5564 ABBA set of F units. The EMD Product Data 
for January 1, 1959 shows these units as F7s built in November 1948. Railroad historian Don Strack has a page on these units, see http://utahrails.net/drgw/rg-f5.php and gives multiple details on the construction of these units by EMD. At this point the D&RGW 5561-5564 are listed on the F3 Wikipedia page. There is a 1953 photo showing the 5561 four unit set on George Elwood's Fallen Flags here http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/drgw/drgw5561ads.jpg The photo shows units that lack an external dynamic brake fans, and appears to be F3s. --SSW9389 18:13, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  First F7s 

message: This test unit was built in March 1949 for the EMD Engineering Department. It was used for high altitude testing on Rio Grande's Soldier Summit line in Utah. After testing it was returned to EMD and repainted as a Burlington passenger F unit for display at the Chicago Railroad Fair. After the fair it was returned to EMD for refurbishment and painting before sale to the B&M in October 1949. The October 1949 date most sources cite as the build date is actually the sale date to B&M. See https://archives.nauer.org/archives/BRHSLIST/2012-11/msg00136.html . SSW9389 (talk) 11:54, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  EMD Test Unit 930