• Any older power still on VRE?

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Discussion related to DC area passenger rail services from Northern Virginia to Baltimore, MD. Includes Light Rail and Baltimore Subway.

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  by train2
 
What is the status of VRE power these days? Have all the older units been sold off? Is the operation 100 percent MP36s?
  by cobra30689
 
All MP36's now. The last 2 GP40's left the property months ago.
  by 4400Washboard
 
Dang, that's a shame. I would've loved to see one of their EMD F40PH-2 locos. or an EMD RP39-2C in service with those 1956 gallery cars... :(
  by jt42cwr
 
cobra30689 wrote:All MP36's now. The last 2 GP40's left the property months ago.
And all the F40's have also gone?
  by chucksc
 
tjensen wrote:Dang, that's a shame. I would've loved to see one of their EMD F40PH-2 locos. or an EMD RP39-2C in service with those 1956 gallery cars... :(
Not if you had to ride in them every day!

Ask Cobra, but i don't think they were much fun to operate either