American bulldog nose locomotive classes built

Class	Year-of-build	Engine	Locomotive quantity
E A	1937-1938	201 A	6
E B	1937-1938	201 A	6
E 1A	1937-1938	201 A	8
E 1B	1937-1938	201 A	3
E 2A	1937	201 A	2
E 2B	1937	201 A	4
E 3A	1939-1940	567 A	16
E 3B	1939	567 A	2
E 4A	1938-1939	567 A	14
E 4B	1938-1939	567 A	5
E 5A	1940-1941	567 A	11
E 5B	1940-1941	567 A	11
E 6A	1939-1942	567 A	93
E 6B	1940-1942	567 A	28
E 7A	1945-1949	567 A	428
E 7B	1945-1949	567 A	82
E 8A	1949-1953	567 B	421
E 8B	1949-1953	567 B	39
E 9A	1954-1963	567 C	100
E 9B	1954-1963	567 C	44
FTA	1939-1945	567	555
FTB	1939-1945	567	541
F 2A	1946	567 B	74
F 2B	1946	567 B	30
F 3A	1945-1949	567 B	1,111
F 3B	1945-1949	567 B	696
F 7A	1949-1953	567 B	2,366
F 7B	1949-1953	567 B	1,483
FP 7A	1949-1953	567 B	376
F 9A	1954-1956	567 C	87
F 9B	1954-1957	567 C	154
FP 9A	1954-1957	567 C	79
FL 9A	1956-1960	567 C	60

A total number of 1,323 6-axle (A1A-A1A) E Class and a total of 7,612 4-axle (Bo'Bo') F Class roundnoses were built by EMD in the period of 1937 - 1963.

Power ratings (in hp) are:

567: 1,000 (12 cyl.); 1,350 (16 cyl.)

567A: 1,000/1,200 (12 cyl.); 1,350 (16 cyl.)

567B: 1,000/1,125/1,200 (12 cyl.); 1,350/1,500 (16 cyl.)

567C: 1,125/1,200 (12 cyl.); 1,500/1,750 (16 cyl.).

Here are some pictures dating back to 1994.

Amtrak

Amtrak is the national passenger railway company in the USA. It owns some infrastructure in the Northeast.

Long Island Rail Road

Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is the busiest commuter railway company in the USA. It owns some infrastructure out of New York onto the Long Island peninsula. Some LIRR FL9's are kept as reserve units on the Long Island Railroad network.

MARC

Maryland Railroad Company (MARC) is a commuter railway company in Maryland. MARC operates commuter trains out of Washington DC.

Metro-North Railroad

The Metro-North Railroad (Metro-North) is a commuter railway company in the state of New York. Metro- North operates commuter trains out of New York. It seemed like the USA had lost their last bulldog nose scheduled commuter train services end November 2001, but the Metro-North bulldog nose locomotives are diagrammed for activity again! The six FL-9M's (2000 series) of the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CDOT) as well as two Metro-North unrebuilt FL9AC's (2041 and 2040) are still active and are used on the Waterbury - Bridgeport, Danbury - Norwalk and Wassaic passenger shuttles, supplemented by Genesis units as needed. Two of the three Metro-North FP-10's are assigned to the Wire Train out of Stamford; the remaining unit is on active reserve at Harmon with stints to Wassaic as needed. The fourth FP-10 has been removed from the roster. Seven FL9ACs are in active storage at Harmon. FL9 2006 went to the Danbury Railway Museum, FL9's 2002 and 2019 went to their new home at the Naugatuck Railroad and the FL9 2023 (in New Haven livery) was delivered to the Connecticut Eastern RR Museum in Willimantic, Connecticut.

The following roundnoses are active on Metro-North at the moment (status of 8 May 2005):

Danbury - Stamford branch: 2014 (first shuttle ex-Danbury), 2016 (second shuttle ex-Danbury);

Danbury - S. Norwalk branch: 2016 (after the second shuttle ex-Danbury to Stamford);

Wassaic - Brewster North branch: 2011;

Waterbury - Bridgeport branch: 2027.
Please beware that the roundnoses can be replaced by Genesis locomotives on Sundays.

Shore Line East

Shore Line East is financed by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (Conndot). It owns some infrastructure in the state of Connecticut.

Preserved operational American bulldog nose locomotives

In the state of Arizona:

The Verde Canyon Railroad operates tourist trains between Clarkdale and Perkinsville with its FP7's 1510 and 1512 through an awesome canyon where eagles nest.

The Grand Canyon Railway operates tourist trains out of Williams to the awesome Grand Canyon with amongst other locomotives its MLW FPA4's 6773 and 6793.

In the state of California:

The Carrizo Gorge Railway operates freight trains between Plaster City in California to Tijuana in Mexico with amongst others a set of F7 A-B-A which is currently not operational put aside at their maintenance facility at Jacumba Hot Springs, California. They will be repaired when time and funds permit.

The Fillmore & Western Railway Co. operates excursion and movie trains out of Fillmore with its F7A 100 and F7A 101 roundnoses.

The Napa Valley Wine Train operates gourmet, dining and excursion trains year-round between Napa and St. Helena. The traction is formed with two out of four owned Alco FA4's numbered 71 and 72.

In the state of Colorado:

The Royal Gorge Route Railroad operates tourist trains out of Canon City with its F7's 402 and 403.

In the state of Florida:

The Seminole Gulf Railway operates daytime excursion and evening dinner trains out of Fort Myers (Colonial Station). Moslty a GP9 is used as traction. The engineless 502 (ex-LIRR 621) is used as control cab on the other end of the trains. What the status is of the previous used GM roundnose 501 (ex-LIRR 619) is unknown.

In the state of Idaho:

The Thunder Mountain Line operates excursion trains between Bend and Montour with its FP10 1106 and FP10 1112 locomotives.

In the state of Illinois:

The Illinois Railway Museum made ex-C&NW F7A 411 operational again in 2006.

In the state of Kansas:

The Midland Railway Historical Association operates excursion trains. Amongst the possible traction is E-8 652. Regretably E-6 630 is out of service. These two units are currently for sale (see the news section of this website.

In the state of Kentucky:

The R.J. Corman Railroad operates dinner trains ('My Old Kentucky Dinner Train') between Paintsville and Evanston through Bardstown (starting point). The roundnoses FP7A 1940 and F7A 1941 (former Southern Railway 6141 and 6138) are used as traction.

In the state of Maryland:

In 2000 Ken Bitten, the owner of the Northern Central Railway, bought eight former Cape Cod Central F10's from MBTA, Boston. The locomotives were used for the Blue Heron Dinner Train, which ceased to run in 2001. Although unconfirmed, these locomotives could still earn their upkeep for freight trains operating from Indian Head, MD to White Plains, MD. There is the possibility of transporting coal to the Indian Head Naval Base power plant. This traffic would be interchanged with CSX at White Plains, MD.

In the state of Michigan:

The rail freight company Coe Railroad operates lunchtime and dinner trains between Wixom and Bloomfield. The F9 roundnose 725 is used as traction.

In the state of Minnesota:

Cliffs-Erie reopened Taconite Harbor for a limited shipment of pellet chips and fines that are located in the pellet stockpile area at Hoyt Lakes. On Friday 10 September 2004 a test train ran consisting of a reactivated F9A and F9B along with twenty loaded pellet cars to the dock and back. In addition, they used the LSRM museum's former EMCO F9A 4211, which arrived in Hinsdale on 13 September 2004. In October 2004 several trains per week were operated. Cliffs-Erie are doing this because the price of pellets is very high right now and they feel they have a decent amount of product on the ground that could be sold and shipped as soon as they can get it loaded. Cliffs-Erie still owns ex-LTV (Erie Mining) three sets of A-B-A locomotives which are stored in Minnesota and are kept in a good condition. The last F-unit run was made on 6 June 2006 when an A-B set and a leased ex-Erie R811 made a roundtrip from Hoyt Lakes to Taconite Harbor to pick up eight mill shells being sold to a company in India. The F9B 4222 was also donated to the LSRM museum.

The North Shore Scenic Railroad operates Lake Superior Railroad Museum roundnose FP-7 2500 over 28 miles of scenic rail line between Duluth and Two Harbors along the shore of Lake Superior. LSRM EMD F-7B Milwaukee Road No. 71B, built in 1950 by Electro-Motive, was used as a rotary snowplow power car. It was donated to the museum by SOO Line in 1988, who had renumbered it X980001. It is in Storage at Rice's Point. LSRM also owns F9A 4211 (ex-LTV Mining Company).

The Minnesota Zephyr Railroad operates excursion and dinner trains out of Stillwater with its F7A 787 and F7A 788.

In the state of Missouri:

The St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway operates tourist trains from Gordonville. They own E-8A 5898.

In the state of New Hampshire:

The Conway Scenic Railroad operates tourist trains from North Conway to Crawford Depot, Fabyan Station, Bartlett and Glen. Al least roundnoses 4268, 6505, 6516 are in service.

In the state of New Jersey:

The Southern Railroad Company of New Jersey operates freight trains out of Wilslow to Vineland and to Pleasantville with amongst others F7A 727 and F7A 728 (both ex-B&LE) roundnoses. They are not used for any passenger train workings.

The Cape May Seashore Lines organization runs excursion trains with amongst other locomotives the roundnoses F7A 576 (ex-NJ Transit 417) and F7A 578 (ex-NJ Transit 420) which are owned by the United Railroad Historical Society of Jersey. The locomotives wear a Lehigh Valley RR red with black stripes livery. Excursion trains operate between Richland (NJ) and Tuckahoe, NJ, the location of the South Jersey Railroad Museum).

In the state of New York:

The Adirondack Scenic Railroad operates tourist trains between Utica and Thendara as well as between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid with its F7A (numbered 1500 and 1508) and F10A locomotives (numbered 1502, a rebuilt F3). The Adirondack Scenic Railroad also owns four ex-New Haven FL9s acquired from Metro-North, but these locomotives are not in regular service.

The New York, Susquehanna & Western (NYS&W) uses two E9As for use as trailing units in its freight trains between Chenango Forks and Utica. One locomotive is numbered 2402.

The Medina Railway Museum uses two ex-New York Central E8s (4068 and 4080) for excursion passenger trains over the Genessee Vally Transportation short line railroad between Medina (museum location) and Lockport (locomotive depot). They are painted in the classic "lightning stripe" New York Central livery.

The New York & Greenwood Lake Railway has purchased former Erie E8 833 (currently painted as Conrail 4022) from Bennett and Eric Levin's Juniata Terminal. The unit will return to New Jersey early 2007 to be restored into its as-delivered Erie two-tone green. It is the only surviving Erie E-unit. Conrail used the locomotive in business train service until the Conrail break up in 1999, when it was sold to Juniata Terminal, which also bought CR's two other E8s and restored them to their original Pennsylvania Railroad appearance. No. 833 still has its original steam generator and original louvers. The New York & Greenwood Lake Railway operates a 1.8-mile spur between Garfield and Passaic, N.J. to serve Atlantic Coast Fibers. Some excursions with the locomotive will be planned in 2007.

In the state of North Carolina:

Three F7A-units (ACWR 4500, ACWR 4501 and VLIX 82) and two F9B-units (VLIX 817 and ACWR 1004) operate for the Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway. This company operates in south-central North Carolina from Aberdeen westward to Charlotte and eastward to Gulf, serving businesses in Montgomery, Moore, Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Chatham, and Stanly counties.

A F7AU (9163, red and white) and a F9BU (6622, Canadian National red and white colors) are used by the Carolina Southern Railroad Co. for its freight trains mostly in between other locomotives. Click here for a picture of such a working. Freight trains run between Mullins (SC) and Whiteville (NC), between Chadbourn (NC) and Conway (SC) and on the Wacamaw Coast Line between Conway (SC) and Myrtle Beach (SC). Five other roundnoses are out of service/stored or in disrepair: F7A 48, F7A 88, F7AU 9158 (red and white), E8A 520 and E8A 4257.

In the state of Ohio:

The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad operates tourist trains between Cleveland and Akron with amongst other locomotives its four MLW FPA4's 800, 6767, 6771 and 6777.

In the state of Oklahoma:

An Oklahoma group bought the Grand Traverse Dinner Train that operated out of Traverse City, Michigan, from Great Lakes Central. As from 2007 this train will be used for excursion trips in Oklahoma.

In the state of Washington:

The Spirit of Washington Dinner Train operates dinner trains from Tacoma to Eatonville with GM roundnoses 82 and 84 as from 3 August 2007. The train will run its old route — to the Columbia Winery — for the last time 31 July 2007. The Dinner Train was forced to look for a new route because BNSF Railway, owner of the current route, is selling its line and has agreed to let the state Department of Transportation tear down the existing rail bridge across Interstate 405 at the Wilburton Tunnel in order to widen the freeway. The Dinner Train's new 3 ½-hour round trip will start just south of the Freighthouse Square Station platform in Tacoma, heading south to Lake Kapowsin in Eatonville and returning to Tacoma.

In the state of West Virginia:

The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad operates the socalled "New Tygart Flyer's" tourist train between Elkins and Belington with its FP7 67 and booster F7B 415, Alco FA2 303 and the BL2 82. The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad even runs freight trains with its roundnoses as the "West Virginia Central Division" serving industries in the area of Belington, Elkins, Dailey and Bowden.

In the state of Wisconsin:

On 21 August 2002 the Middleton Community Development Authority (CDA) suspended the special trains of the Middleton & Southern Wisconsin Excursion Railroad out of Middleton (near Madison) to Greenway Station's (a large shopping mall in Middleton) as well as the football trains to the University of Wisconsin stadium. The Wisconsin Southern Railroad bulldog nose locomotives E9A 10A and E9A 10C are now once in a while being used for Wisconsin Southern Railroad freight trains. The depot is located at Horicon. Early 2005 the Escanaba & Lake Superior purchased FP7 71A from Wisconsin Southern Railroad.

Throughout the USA:

For a complete list of all surviving F-units you have to visit the website of John Komanesky.