Hi everyone,
While in my local hobby shop today, I noticed an H0 Scale train set that included an F40PH in Union Pacific colors, and a few freight cars. I know this is just a children's toy, but it made me wonder. First I knew that some railway in maine rebuilt a bunch of F40's and put em in freight service. Does anyone else have any pictures, or just know of F40ph's being pressed into freight service? Besides regearing, would anything else need to be done to make the unit more appropriate for freight service(mechanically). I'm sure in a pinch you could just couple an F40 geared for 100mph to a freight train, and it would pull it, but its still basically just a GP40. I think it would be really cool to model
Frank
While in my local hobby shop today, I noticed an H0 Scale train set that included an F40PH in Union Pacific colors, and a few freight cars. I know this is just a children's toy, but it made me wonder. First I knew that some railway in maine rebuilt a bunch of F40's and put em in freight service. Does anyone else have any pictures, or just know of F40ph's being pressed into freight service? Besides regearing, would anything else need to be done to make the unit more appropriate for freight service(mechanically). I'm sure in a pinch you could just couple an F40 geared for 100mph to a freight train, and it would pull it, but its still basically just a GP40. I think it would be really cool to model
Frank