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Only thing I can see wrong with the picture is that the train has an F-40 engine & I believe there isn't more than a couple of them left. I believe working out of Albany, N.Y. Or possibly you're referring to it just being a lousy picture? Reggie Posts: 462 | From: Bakersfield Ca., 93312 | Registered: Jul 2000
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Reggie...your first impulse was on target. It is the F40. The pages for the other trains use Genesis or F59 images. ------------------ Ken V. Posts: 149 | From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Mar 2002
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Well...an F-40 with Phase III paint...imagine if they put a pic of an E-8 in Phase II, or a GP-40-2 in Phase III instead...? If Amtrak had done that, believe me, I wouldn't have been surprised.
Plenty of F-40 shells surviving as "cabbages", though...but the Texas Eagle is definitely not a cabbage-using train...
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It's a nicely altered photo of a good-looking engine. Too bad they don't use them anymore. Plus it doesn't have ditch lights, so that makes the photo even older. I think if you have a nice photo of a P42, you should send it to them and say, "Here, use this instead." I have come to believe the P42s look fairly bland compared to the rugged F40 shell.
------------------ F40PH #757099-8 March 29, 1976-November 18, 2001 P42DC #53063 November 18, 2001-???
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