FOURTH QUARTER 2021: Diesel Era, now published quarterly by White River Productions, presents a variety of motive power to wrap up 2021. Delivered in the late 1980s, VIA Rail Canada modernized its diesel fleet with F40PH-2Ds. You’ll see the first two orders covered in this edition. All this and more in the Fourth Quarter 2021 issue of Diesel Era!

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Fourth Quarter 2021

Vol. 31, No. 4

Features

Battery Era? Wabtec’s FLXdrive

by Dan Cupper

Almost Pennsy: Penn Central’s C-636 and U33C

by Diesel Era Staff

VIA’s F40PH-2D Part One: 6400–6429

by Manny Jacob and Diesel Era Staff

Cimarron Valley’s Santa Fe-Inspired Dash 8s

by Tony Cook

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October 6, 2021

Santa Fe Bicentennial SD45-2 Donated to Southern California Railway Museum

BNSF Railway will donate a restored and repainted Santa Fe Bicentennial unit to the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris.

August 20, 2021

Former EJ&E SD-M donated to Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum

Chesapeake & Indiana Railroad has donated former Elgin, Joliet & Eastern SD-M 818 to the Hoosier Valley Railroad in North Judson, Indiana.

August 19, 2021

Tennesee Valley Railroad Museum receives rare Fairbanks-Morse Diesel

The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum announced the donation of Fairbanks-Morse “Baby Trainmaster” H-16-66 no. F3060 from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

May 25, 2021

Kentucky Steam Heritage Adds L&N C30-7 to Collection

Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation accepted a donation of a former Louisville & Nashville diesel locomotive, former CSX 7067, a C30-7 type engine built by General Electric in 1980.