CLMW F7A

CLMW F7A

Produced between February 1949 and December 1953, the Electro-Motive Division F7 is a 1,500 horsepower diesel-electric road locomotive. With over 3,800 units sold, it was the most popular of EMD's F-series. First purchased in 1949 by the Cleveland, Lorain and Midwestern, the EMD cab units would serve as primary road power for the line. The locomotives would serve well, and the CLMW would eventually roster sixty of the classic EMDs alongside their SW7 switchers and FA-1 passenger power. When the CLMW order of SD40-2s was delayed to 1978, from their initial order in 1974, the Cleveland, Lorain and Midwestern began the Locomotive Life Expectancy Addition Program, or LEAP, on all of their 567 engine-equipped units. LEAP gutted the 16-567 of the F7A, replacing it with the at the time modern 12-645E producing the same horsepower. In essence, it makes the CLMW F7As prime mover equivalent to that of a GP15-1. The sixty F-units would continue to be the road's main power until the SD40-2s arrived, which took over the railroad's heaviest trains. Despite these new units, the F7s would not be retired and continue to serve today on many trains on the CLMW network.

CLMW F7A
• config.txt 3.65KB
f7_chessie_alpha_numbers
alphanumber_0.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_1.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_2.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_3.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_4.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_5.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_6.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_7.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_8.tga 4.04KB
alphanumber_9.tga 4.04KB
f7_chessie_art
f7_chessie_art_512.texture.txt 85 bytes
f7_chessie_art_512.tga 1.00MB
f7_chessie_art_icon.texture.txt 87 bytes
f7_chessie_art_icon.tga 32.04KB
f7_chessie_body
chessie_sidegrill-chessie_sidegrill_opacity.texture.txt 77 bytes
chessie_sidegrill.tga 16.41KB
chessie_sidegrill_opacity.bmp 9.05KB
cupla.texture.txt 28 bytes
cupla.tga 768.04KB
digit_1.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_1.tga 1.04KB
digit_2.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_2.tga 1.04KB
digit_3.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_3.tga 1.04KB
digit_4.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_4.tga 1.04KB
digit_5.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_5.tga 1.04KB
digit_6.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_6.tga 1.04KB
env_glass.bmp 12.05KB
env_glass.texture.txt 32 bytes
env_metal.bmp 12.05KB
env_metal.texture.txt 32 bytes
f7_bno_b.texture.txt 31 bytes
f7_bno_b.tga 207.07KB
f7_chessie_a.texture.txt 35 bytes
f7_chessie_a.tga 60.29KB
f7_chessie_b.texture.txt 35 bytes
f7_chessie_b.tga 207.07KB
f7_chessie_body.im 417.00KB
f7_chessie_c.texture.txt 35 bytes
f7_chessie_c.tga 10.27KB
light.texture.txt 28 bytes
light.tga 3.04KB
light_o.bmp 2.05KB
f7_chessie_shadow
black.texture.txt 28 bytes
black.tga 812 bytes
f7_chessie_shadow.im 5.17KB
• icon_2.texture.txt 86 bytes
• icon_2.tga 32.02KB
• thumbnail_0.jpg 10.36KB