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the SDP-40F Locomotives #575-609

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When Amtrak started, almost everything it inherited was old and tired. One of the first new equipment purchased were new, state of the art locomotives. After all. if failed, locomotives would be sold, but what would you do with new passenger cars if Amtrak failed. A three thousand horsepower locomotive, based on the popular SD-40 was built new for Amtrak by EMD in 1973-74. Unfortunately these new locomotives were plagued by derailments most were traded in. Many parts were reused on the FP-40PHR. Eighteen were sold to the Santa Fe and after changing the trucks, used them for many years

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	SDP	Location & Information	DATE	PHOTO CREDIT
	577	Seattle WA	June 21, 1974	R.R. Harmen
	578	Seattle WA	Sept 1978	Vic F Reyna
	579	Minneapolis MN	Nov 1975	Tom Baldner
no photo yet	580
	581	Denver CO	October 31, 1976	John Tudek
no photo yet	582
no photo yet	583
	584	Portland OR with train 11	undated 1974?	Cliff West
no photo yet	585
	586	Denver CO	March 6, 1976	John Tudek
	586	Taylor Yard CA	May 27, 1974
	586	Portland OR train 14	July 1974	Cliff West
	587	unknown	unknown	E D Motis
no photo yet	588
no photo yet	589
	590	Elyria OH 590 on Lake Shore Limited	Dec 1976	Gary Morris
	590	Unknown Location	June 1977	JF Garcia
	591	Chicago IL	May 28, 1977	Glenn Monhart
	591	Chicago IL	July 1, 1977	Paul Hunnell
	592	Minneapolis MN	May 1977	Jim Shepard
	593	St Louis MO	August 3, 1975	G.L.Semon
	595	Wellesley Farms MA	Dec 23, 1975	Dick Leonhardt
	595	Wilbraham MA	November 1975	from the collection of Albert Phleep
	596		unknown	from the collection of Clint Chamberlin
	599	Chicago IL	Sept 1973	Joseph Testagrose
	599	Harrisburg PA	October 1976	Bill Hakkarinen

	600	Denver CO	Sept 25, 1977	John Tudek
	601		Oct 1974	Joseph Testagrose
	601	Tampa FL	Aug 1979	Dick Leonhardt
	602	Auburndale FL on the southbound train #83	Aug 15, 1974
no photo yet	603
	604	Auburndale FL leading the northbound train #84	Aug 15, 1974
	604	Washington DC	August 1977	Dick Leonhardt
	605	Nashville TN	October 1974	from the collection of Jim Hebner
no photo yet	606
	607	Washington DC Ivy City Terminal	Summer 1977	GR Harper
	607	Washington DC Ivy City Terminal	April 1977	from the collection of Albert Phleep
	608	Washington DC	July 27, 1974	M Rudinsky
	609	Auburndale FL leading train #91 west	August 15, 1974
	609	Miami FL	Nov 25, 1975
	609	Potomac Yard Arlington VA delivered June 19, 1974 Sold/traded in to EMD became EMD 169	February 1978	Dick Leonhardt
	169	former Amtrak 609 now EMD 169 used as a test bed for EMD projects		from the collection of Jim Hebner
	169	Homewood IL	July 31, 1987	Paul Hunnell

In 1984, 18 were sold/swapped to the AT&SF for SBB1200s and CF-7s
BNSF retired them and stripped them for parts in 2002