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[quote user="CMStPnP"]Also, why they bought FP-45's for locomotives as they continued the railroad philosophy that they could be used for freight upon Amtraks failure (thats why Santa Fe and Milwaukee Road bought them as well prior to Amtrak, they knew in a matter of years they would be freight only units).[/quote] Perhaps I misunderstand you but Amtrak never owned FP45s. Only ATSF (9) and Milwaukee Road (5) ordered them. ATSF bought them in 1967 for their premier passenger trains as they didn't like the SDP45's road switcher appearance. After Amtrak took over ATSF was able to use the FP45 as freight locomotive as it was a redesigned SD45 freight locomotive Amtrak bought EMD SDP40F locomotives which were redesigned from the SD40-2.  As others had good experiences with freight locomotive redesigns (SDP40, SDP45, FP45 etc.) as passenger locomotives went the same way. The locomotive was prepared for change to electrical HEP. Thus the steam generator was placed on a scid and easily removale. I doubt that one can take the SDP40F's easy convertability for freight service as indicator for planning for Amtrak's failure. [quote user="CMStPnP"]I believe SP bought SDP-45's with steam generators for the same reason, if you look at the SDP-45's closely, they were designed more for freight service than passenger service.[/quote] The SDP45 was redesigned from the SD45 so it was originally designed for freight service. It was the only way for a manufacturer to build a small series (52) of passenger locomotives at reasonable costs through saving the high costs for a completely new design.  Regards, Volker
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