by Pensyfan19
Hello everyone;
I am once again asking for your help for an important episode of my locomotive documentary series, Remarkable Engines. This episode will be focusing on Amtrak F40PHR 241, which later became Ferromex 241 and then Iowa Northern 678. Based on what I gathered so far, the F40 was transported to the Alaska Railroad in 2002, was then purchased by the American Orient Express along with a few other F40s, and was given Ferromex stencils/logo while on the American Orient Express and while being transported in (I believe) a UP freight northward, possibly to the Northwest (Seattle based on this photo) in 2005, before being given to IANR and repainted.
Is there any additional information about this locomotive that would help this case? Why was 241 in Alaska? Why did it receive Ferromex logos/stencils? Was this only for AOE operations in Mexico? Thanks.
I am once again asking for your help for an important episode of my locomotive documentary series, Remarkable Engines. This episode will be focusing on Amtrak F40PHR 241, which later became Ferromex 241 and then Iowa Northern 678. Based on what I gathered so far, the F40 was transported to the Alaska Railroad in 2002, was then purchased by the American Orient Express along with a few other F40s, and was given Ferromex stencils/logo while on the American Orient Express and while being transported in (I believe) a UP freight northward, possibly to the Northwest (Seattle based on this photo) in 2005, before being given to IANR and repainted.
Is there any additional information about this locomotive that would help this case? Why was 241 in Alaska? Why did it receive Ferromex logos/stencils? Was this only for AOE operations in Mexico? Thanks.
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