LIRR F Units

I plan to upload photos of all the different F Units one day when I have time. I thought it would be nice to have them all together in an album somewhere. I have roster photos of all the ones that were rebuilt in the 1981-1983 period. I have heritage information for all the F units, as seen below. If any of you guys know where particular engines went, can you post it here? I' know where they came from, but have some holes on where they went. I eventually will do it for the GP38-2's, the MP15's and the SW1001's, but figured I'd start with the F's as my "LIRR 3100" thread seemed to spark a lot of interest in the F units.

Thanks a lot guys, I'll post the link to the F Unit album in the next few weeks when I get them all online. Any information on any of the units would be greatly appreciated, expecially where they are now.

F-Units:
FA2:
600- Penn Central #1302, New York Central 1102
601- Louisville & Nashville #317
602- L&N #309
603- L&N 315
604- L&N 314
605- L&N 310 - lasted to the late 90's
606- L&N 231 - lasted to the late 90's
607- Western Maryland #303 - lated to the late 90's
608- WM #304 - face chopped off and became LIRR #3100 to run as power car with the GP38's on Bi-level test train on the Port Jefferson line during the 90's.
609- Western Maryland #301
610- WM #302

FA1:
611- Burlington Northern #4102, ex SP&S 857 - lasted to the late 90's
612- BN #4100, ex SP&S #856
613- BN 4120, ex SP&S 866
614- BN 4104, ex SP&S 858 - lasted to the late 90's
615- BN 4116, ex SP&S 864 - lasted to the late 90's
616- BN 4108, ex SP&S 860 - lasted to the late 90's
617- Penn Central 1333, ex New Haven 0428 - lasted to late 90's
618- Penn Central 1330, ex NH 0401

F9A:
619- Milwaukee Road #126A - lasted into the late 90's

F7A:
620- Baltimore & Ohio 4599 - lasted into the late 90's
621- B&O 4524 - lasted into the late 90's
622- B&O 4524 - lasted into the late 90's
623- B&O 4535 - held at Morris Park, never rebuilt for the LIRR tracks

All the ones that "lasted into the late 90's" were rebuilt in 1981-1983.

GP38, Contact me or "PM" me and I can send them to you.
Tim

GP38- I sent 2 "PM"'s to you, the second has the dispos.

what unit was an F-3 620 or 621?

BEDT16 RMLI:

Unit #s 620 thru 623 inclusive were F7am models.



GP38:

Here's some more data in case you don't have it:

#608 was rebuilt into power car #3100 in May, 1991

#612 was damaged by fire and withdrawn from service in January, 1988

#s 605, 607, 609, 611, 613 thru 622, inclusive, were all removed from LIRR property on December 15, 1998.

#605, 607, and 609 weighed 183,300#

#s 611, 613 thru 617, inclusive, weighed 208,000#

#s 619 thru 622, inclusive, weighed 162,600#

The following data is from John Scala’s "Diesels of the Sunrise Trail"

# 600 Built Alco/GE - 10/51
#s 601 thru 606, inclusive, Built Alco – 6/56
#s 607 thru 610, inclusive, Built Alco/GE – 1/51
#s 611, 612 Built Alco/GE – 2/49
# 613 Built Alco/GE – 6/50
#s 614 thru 616, inclusive built Alco/GE – 2/49
# 617 Built Alco/GE – 10/47
# 618 Built Alco/GE – 5/47
# 619 Built EMD – 1/54
# 620 Built EMD – 12/50
# 621 Built EMD – 8/52
# 622 Built EMD – 11/50
# 623 Built EMD – 12/50

#600 acquired 3/6/74
#601 acquired 5/6/71
#602 acquired 6/30/71
#603 acquired 8/4/71
#604 acquired 9/7/71
#605 acquired 11/1/71
#606 acquired 1/3/72
#607 acquired 5/2/72
#608 acquired 6/19/72
#609 acquired 9/23/72
#610 acquired 10/20/72
#611 acquired 8/7/72
#612 acquired 11/27/72
#613 acquired 2/14/73
#614 acquired 3/7/73
#615 acquired 4/18/73
#616 acquired 7/29/73
#617 acquired 4/29/74
#618 acquired 6/17/74


Hope this additional data is informative!

Dave Keller

Actually, the 619 was an F9A, and the 615 was ex-GN 442A before going to the SP&S.

610, ex-Western Maryland 302 presently sits in the former D&H yards at Colonie, NY. The unit was owned by the Mohawk & Hudson chapter NRHS but was sold several years ago to the Western Maryland Railway Historical Society. WMRHS has been trying to bring the unit back to Maryland but they can't seem to raise the money to do it. 610 was originally kept indoors but when CP took over, they evicted M&H and all their equipment is now outdoors. Because of this 610 is in pretty poor shape. Also on an adjacent track is an ex LIRR S-1 which supposedly has been abandoned by it's owner who cannot be located. Check out the 2 links below:
http://moosevalley.org/wmrhs/project302/project302.htm
http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm

Regarding the #619:

GP38 did list it as an F9A.

I mentioned that #620 thru #623 were F7am models.

Dave Keller

Were the FA series locomotives delivered to the Long Island Railroad in the late 1940s to the early 1950's?

Frank, i think the FA's were delivered in the '70's along with the geeps and MP15's

The LIRR was not an original purchaser of FA's from Alco. If you scroll up to Mr. Keller's post you will notice that they were all purchased between 1971 and 1974.

Guys . . . .

Please read my post above. It lists the LIRR's acquisition dates of the units.

Dave Keller

WM303

Don't know if the e-mail went through. Having trouble with my e-mail provided this evening.

Here's the data again and for everyone else interested just in case:

Sorry I missed the acquisition dates on the EMD units when I posted all the other info above.

#s 619 and 620 were purchased: 3/78
#s 621, 622, 623 were purchased: 10/80

Dave Keller

There's a LIRR FA unit at the Illinois Railway Museum. Somewhere I have a picture of it and if I can find it, I'll post it.

The FA at IRM is 604, ex Louisville & Nashville 314. If I remember correctly this unit still has its 244 prime mover.