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Reply to "Now comes the F3 from 3rd Rail"

The GN Man posted:

Is it correct that the WP only had the passenger version F3's?  I will be in for a WP F3B unit to run with my FP7. 

Yes, you are correct.  WP bought A-B-B F3's for passenger service only. 

However, the Sacramento Northern, WP's former interurban subsidiary, bought three F3A's from the New York, Ontario & Western when the NYO&W went bankrupt in 1957.  One of those was transferred to WP and renumbered 801-D, a passenger unit.  The other pair of F3A's worked in freight service on Sacramento Northern, wearing WP colors and SN lettering.  SN, like other dieselized interurbans, was not a fast freight railroad.

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