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Viewing Album:  F-40 Swan Song
 
By:David Hutchinson
Dates:4/21/2014 - 12/31/2014
Album Info:40 new HSP-46's are on order, two are now on the property, and three per month are expected. The low numbered F-40's will be the first to go, 2014 will be their last stand.
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The end is near
Title:  The end is near
Description:  F-40 1016, stripped of anything useful, is the first of her class to go to the torch at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  3/29/2014  Upload Date: 2/20/2015 7:48:22 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1016(F40PH)
Views:  853   Comments: 0
First to go
Title:  First to go
Description:  1016, having been out of service for several years, has become the first of her class to go to the torch.
Photo Date:  4/21/2014  Upload Date: 5/20/2014 7:00:23 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1016(F40PH)
Views:  1381   Comments: 0
Not much left
Title:  Not much left
Description:  Dawn at Boston Engine Terminal, F-40 1016 is reduced to a frame, some trucks, and a prime mover, there will be nothing left by this afternoon.
Photo Date:  4/22/2014  Upload Date: 2/20/2015 7:48:57 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1016(F40PH)
Views:  1105   Comments: 1
Air Brake Test
Title:  Air Brake Test
Description:  The 1008 is hooked up to three former MARC GP-40's to provide air for required tests before they are set for interchange and sent back to their owner.
Photo Date:  4/29/2014  Upload Date: 6/14/2014 8:24:19 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1008(F40PH)
Views:  463   Comments: 0
Passing the torch
Title:  Passing the torch
Description:  HSP-46 2001 stands in stark contrast to war-weary F-40 1009. Inevitably, 1009 and her sisters will be disposed of as more HSP-46's arrive from the builder.
Photo Date:  5/5/2014  Upload Date: 5/5/2014 8:33:07 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 2001(MP40PH-3C) MBTA 1009(F40PH)
Views:  817   Comments: 0
Ready for the rush
Title:  Ready for the rush
Description:  1011 brings up the rear of a draft headed to Boston's North Station.
Photo Date:  5/20/2014  Upload Date: 5/20/2014 7:06:25 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1011(F40PH)
Views:  397   Comments: 0
Out on the deadline
Title:  Out on the deadline
Description:  1014 occupies the deadline out in back at Boston Engine Terminal. With a blown piston and a large hole in her block, she'll never run again.
Photo Date:  5/21/2014  Upload Date: 5/21/2014 6:26:07 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1014(F40PH)
Views:  550   Comments: 2
Resurrected
Title:  Resurrected
Description:  Down for two months with main generator problems, the 1003 should be patched up and back on the road next week.
Photo Date:  5/31/2014  Upload Date: 6/1/2014 5:50:28 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1003(F40PH)
Views:  383   Comments: 0
Headin' East
Title:  Headin' East
Description:  Train #1109 passes through Prison Point Charlestown,Mass.
Photo Date:  6/1/2014  Upload Date: 6/1/2014 5:51:12 PM
Location:  Boston, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1005(F40PH)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
Sunrise at B.E.T.
Title:  Sunrise at B.E.T.
Description:  Sunrise finds the 1001 idling outside the "Diesel House" at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  6/3/2014  Upload Date: 6/3/2014 6:24:18 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1001(F40PH)
Views:  295   Comments: 0
Sunrise at B.E.T.
Title:  Sunrise at B.E.T.
Description:  Sunrise finds the 1002 idling outside the "Diesel House" at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  6/3/2014  Upload Date: 6/3/2014 6:24:46 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1002(F40PH)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
Sunrise at B.E.T.
Title:  Sunrise at B.E.T.
Description:  F-40's lined up outside the "Diesel House" at Boston Engine Terminal, reminiscent of a 1940's publicity pose.
Photo Date:  6/3/2014  Upload Date: 6/3/2014 6:25:25 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1007(F40PH) MBTA 1002(F40PH) MBTA 1001(F40PH)
Views:  327   Comments: 0
Waiting her turn
Title:  Waiting her turn
Description:  1015 waits her turn for repairs at Boston Engine Terminal, hoping the mechanics can squeeze a few more miles out of her.
Photo Date:  6/8/2014  Upload Date: 6/8/2014 8:03:41 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1015(F40PH)
Views:  296   Comments: 0
An old girl and her replacement
Title:  An old girl and her replacement
Description:  The old and the new share space out in front of the Diesel House at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  6/8/2014  Upload Date: 6/11/2014 7:47:40 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 2002(MP40PH-3C) MBTA 1015(F40PH)
Views:  407   Comments: 0
Headin' out on the road
Title:  Headin' out on the road
Description:  Train #2309 is being readied for service in the S&I building at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  6/8/2014  Upload Date: 6/8/2014 8:05:04 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1007(F40PH)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
Ready for the road
Title:  Ready for the road
Description:  1007 is positioned in the layover yard at Boston Engine Terminal for a mid afternoon local.
Photo Date:  6/16/2014  Upload Date: 6/16/2014 7:29:56 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1007(F40PH)
Views:  227   Comments: 0
Inbound Arrival
Title:  Inbound Arrival
Description:  Train #326 from Lowell rolls across the Charles River drawbridge and into North Station.
Photo Date:  6/16/2014  Upload Date: 6/16/2014 7:33:28 PM
Location:  Boston, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1013(F40PH)
Views:  346   Comments: 0
Move Over!
Title:  Move Over!
Description:  Brand new HSP-46 2005 almost seems to be setting her sights on disabled F-40 1009 at Boston Engine Terminal. The 1009, laid up with excessive lateral motion problems, will probably never run again.
Photo Date:  6/22/2014  Upload Date: 6/23/2014 7:29:04 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1009(F40PH)
Views:  588   Comments: 0
Afternoon Rush
Title:  Afternoon Rush
Description:  The afternoon rush is in full swing at Boston Engine Terminal, as trainsets are serviced and set to the yard for movement over to North Station.
Photo Date:  6/23/2014  Upload Date: 6/23/2014 7:41:09 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1001(F40PH) MBTA 1010(F40PH)
Views:  426   Comments: 0
Another one bites the dust
Title:  Another one bites the dust
Description:  MBTA 1000, the class leader, has been shoved out in the deadline at Boston Engine Terminal, in an ever growing collection of worn out F-40's.
Photo Date:  6/28/2014  Upload Date: 6/28/2014 6:23:01 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1000(F40PH)
Views:  509   Comments: 0
Waiting for repairs
Title:  Waiting for repairs
Description:  Because of their age, the F-40's need almost daily repairs and constant attention, 1001-1012-1007 wait their turn in the repair shop at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  8/5/2014  Upload Date: 8/5/2014 6:44:29 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1001(F40PH)
Views:  345   Comments: 0
Off the deadline
Title:  Off the deadline
Description:  With the onset of major problems with the new HSP-46 fleet, many F-40's once written off, have come back inside from the deadline.
Photo Date:  12/27/2014  Upload Date: 12/27/2014 6:10:08 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1004(F40PH)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
The Dead Line Grows Longer
Title:  The Dead Line Grows Longer
Description:  An appropriately dreary winter day, finds sidelined F-40's beginning to pile up like the snow that surrounds them out in the back yard at Boston engine terminal.
Photo Date:  1/28/2015  Upload Date: 1/29/2015 9:00:04 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1009(F40PH) MBTA 1010(F40PH)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
Winter has not been kind
Title:  Winter has not been kind
Description:  Time is running out for the aging F-40 fleet, some of them 36 years old, graduates of the EMD class of 1978, wait out an uncertain fate in the back yard at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  1/28/2015  Upload Date: 1/29/2015 9:00:30 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1004(F40PH)
Views:  301   Comments: 0
Dead Storage
Title:  Dead Storage
Description:  Even the recent rebuilds are beginning fall by the wayside and now join their sisters in the dead line in the back yard at Boston Engine terminal.
Photo Date:  1/28/2015  Upload Date: 1/29/2015 9:00:52 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1005(F40PH)
Views:  493   Comments: 0
F-40 Graveyard
Title:  F-40 Graveyard
Description:  This winter has been hard on MBTA's antiquated motive power, hardest hit are the 1978 F-40's of which there are now ten of them out of service at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  3/2/2015  Upload Date: 3/3/2015 6:54:43 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1004(F40PH) MBTA 1006(F40PH) MBTA 1017(F40PH)
Views:  365   Comments: 0
F-40 Graveyard
Title:  F-40 Graveyard
Description:  This winter has been hard on MBTA's antiquated motive power, hardest hit are the 1978 F-40's of which there are now ten of them out of service at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  3/2/2015  Upload Date: 3/3/2015 6:55:13 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1006(F40PH) MBTA 1004(F40PH)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
F-40 Graveyard
Title:  F-40 Graveyard
Description:  This winter has been hard on MBTA's antiquated motive power, hardest hit are the 1978 F-40's of which there are now ten of them out of service at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  3/2/2015  Upload Date: 3/3/2015 6:55:41 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1010(F40PH)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
F-40 Graveyard
Title:  F-40 Graveyard
Description:  This winter has been hard on MBTA's antiquated motive power, hardest hit are the 1978 F-40's of which there are now ten of them out of service at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  3/2/2015  Upload Date: 3/3/2015 6:57:20 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1010(F40PH) MBTA 1017(F40PH) MBTA 1006(F40PH) MBTA 1004(F40PH)
Views:  431   Comments: 0
Going Away
Title:  Going Away
Description:  Derelict F-40's 1017-1015-1008-1005 and 1011 are being air tested and readied to be shipped out to an un-disclosed destination.
Photo Date:  5/19/2015  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 6:20:23 AM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1017(F40PH)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
The deadline grows longer
Title:  The deadline grows longer
Description:  Derelict F-40's 1006-1002-1001-1012, from MBTA's original order of 1978, await their fate at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  6/13/2015  Upload Date: 6/16/2015 9:32:10 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1006(F40PH)
Views:  430   Comments: 0
The Dead Line Grows Longer
Title:  The Dead Line Grows Longer
Description:  Derelict F-40's 1011-1008-1015-1005, from MBTA's original order of 1978, await their fate at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  6/13/2015  Upload Date: 6/16/2015 9:32:45 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1011(F40PH)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
Lucky 13
Title:  Lucky 13
Description:  F-40 1013 has the dubious distinction of being the last one standing, 330, her temporary replacement, is six years older. With the failure of the new HSP's to step up to the plate, these EMD veterens will have to soldier on.
Photo Date:  7/1/2015  Upload Date: 7/1/2015 6:54:45 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1013(F40PH) SLC 330(F40PH)
Views:  828   Comments: 0
Parts Source
Title:  Parts Source
Description:  Out of service since late February, the 1004 is living out her last days as a parts souce out behind the Diesel Shop at Boston Engine Terminal.
Photo Date:  7/1/2015  Upload Date: 7/1/2015 6:56:32 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1004(F40PH)
Views:  560   Comments: 0
Movin' Out
Title:  Movin' Out
Description:  MBTA F-40's 1009-1014-1000-1010 are being readied at Boston Engine Terminal for shipment into storage and an uncertain future.
Photo Date:  7/6/2015  Upload Date: 7/26/2015 6:12:25 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1009(F40PH)
Views:  741   Comments: 1
Class Unit
Title:  Class Unit
Description:  MBTA F-40's 1009-1014-1000-1010 are being readied at Boston Engine Terminal for shipment into storage and an uncertain future.
Photo Date:  7/6/2015  Upload Date: 7/26/2015 6:13:01 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1000(F40PH)
Views:  839   Comments: 0
Movin' Out
Title:  Movin' Out
Description:  MBTA F-40's 1009-1014-1000-1010 are being readied at Boston Engine Terminal for shipment into storage and an uncertain future.
Photo Date:  7/6/2015  Upload Date: 7/26/2015 6:13:25 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1014(F40PH)
Views:  473   Comments: 0
Movin' Out
Title:  Movin' Out
Description:  MBTA F-40's 1009-1014-1000-1010 are being readied at Boston Engine Terminal for shipment into storage and an uncertain future.
Photo Date:  7/6/2015  Upload Date: 7/26/2015 6:13:54 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1010(F40PH)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
BURP!
Title:  BURP!
Description:  Now the later model F-40,s are starting to show their age, sometime in the early morning hours, 1051's turbo decided to spit up.
Photo Date:  9/27/2015  Upload Date: 10/3/2015 6:52:57 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1051(F40PH-2C)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
Here we go again
Title:  Here we go again
Description:  The second tragic meltdown of a later model F-40 in 2 weeks, this time, the 1069 blew oil all over the place at the height of rush hour at Boston's North Station.
Photo Date:  10/3/2015  Upload Date: 10/3/2015 6:53:32 PM
Location:  Somerville, MA
Author:  David Hutchinson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MBTA 1069(F40PH-2C)
Views:  395   Comments: 0

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