GO Transit

Government of Ontario

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Cab control coach 244 interior. Oakville May 22/2006

Bi-level coach 2312. Oshawa. 12/22/2003

GP40TC

600 in original GO paint scheme. Likely at GMD London. GMD A2125 10/1966
This was a special Canada-only model (8 units) especially designed for GO. TC standing for Toronto Commuter.
Equipped with diesel genset 600 KW GM 12V-149 for HEP. Extended frame for HEP. 3000 hp 132 tons. 83 mph

GP40TC CN 603 one of seven units (except 600) leased 11/1966 by CN waiting startup of GO trains.

602 getting serviced.

Passing freight shed just west of Union Station.

603 repainted and in service on GO. November 1967 Dave Burroughs

Eastbound past Bathurst Street approaching Union Station.

Shows extended frame and Head End Power (HEP) auxiliary engine compartment on GP40TC model.

9801 (ex 601) Series renumbered 12/1969-1/1970 GMD GP40TC 3000 hp GMD A2126 10/1966 Re# 501

Note destination sign once displayed.

501 ex 9801 (above) nee 601. Willowbrook. 9/08/1976 Ed.McKernan/Joseph Testagrose Collection

500 ex 9800 nee 600. Willowbrook 10/11/1976

503 Willowbrook 9/06/1976

506 Willowbrook 9/04/1978

507 at Willowbrook shop 9/11/1977. Last GP40TC (ex 9807 nee 607) GMD A2132 11/1966

NOTE: 500-507 Sold 10/1988 Amtrak 193 (192-199) Later Amtrak upgraded all eight to GP38H-3. Re# 520-527

F40PH 510-515

511 GMD A3496 5/1978 Looking retired in Toronto February 18, 1990

Note: 510-515 sold 1990 (shipped 4/1990) Amtrak 410-415
Scroll down to subsequent owners for more photos.

513 GMD A3498 5/1978 8/25/1984

F59PH 520-568

520-535 (16 units) 12-710G3 3000 HP
536-547 (12 units) 12-710G3A 3300 HP
548-561 (14 units) 12-710G3A 3300 HP
562-568 (7 units) 12-710G3A 3300 HP

All units equipped with 530 KW HEP

527 Note the addition of the word Transit below a slanted GO. North Bathurst Yard, Toronto 5/10/1999
Hughes Bonin/Joseph Testagrose Collection

539 GMD A4878 1/1990

559 GMD A4925 10/1990 Bathurst Street 10/13/2019

MP40PH-3C Built by MPI with GM 16-710G3B-T2 4000 HP prime mover. 575 volt 750 KW HEP. 93 mph

Note: Second use of 600 number series.

600 first of 27 unit order 600-626. MPI 2405-01 1/2007 Toronto Union 4/02/2017

601 MPI 2405-02 1/2007 Willowbrook 6/14/2007. Joseph Testagrose Collection

623 Bathurst Street 9/29/2019

627-656 (30) Note: 647 is new twin engine model. See below.

640 Bathurst Street 9/29/2019

646 arriving Toronto with train 1960 from Niagara Falls. Note different paint schemes. Sunday, 1/05/2020

657-666 (10)

666 "Devil" diesel! New two shades green paint restyled scheme. Toronto Union 3/08/2020

MPI MP40PHT-T4 93 mph
2 Cummins QSK60 = 5400 HP
575V 750KW w/separate engine.

647 plus 667-682 (1 + 16)

670 (pushing Lakeshore West Line train) Bathurst Street. Sunday, January 5, 2020. MPI 2573-04 11/2018
Note the somewhat controversial two-tone green paint scheme.

674_670 it became a standard practice to assign two units to weekend Lakeshore trains to protect against enroute delays
due to unforseen causes and the lengthy time to crew and dispatch replacement power. Sunday, October 13/2019

677 Toronto Union 3/08/2020

GP40-2

708 Mimico 7/09/1979

709 second to last GP40-2 (DD-GM A3308 9/1975) at Mimico 9/11/1977 John Lameck/Sam Beck Collection

Sold 1991 CN 9676 (9668-9677 except 703 sold 1991 Tri-Rail Miami, Florida)

723 acq. 1982 (ex RI 3001/377) one of 7 GP40M-2 (720-726) 12-710G3 3300 HP EMD 7942-16 1/1967.

724 (ex RI 3006/379)

NOTE: Seven units rebuilt from a GP40. The last two of these upgraded units were trapped in the bankruptcy of the famous Rock Island road. Chrome Crankshaft acquired the Rock Island's Silvis shops along with these seven units and finished them. GO bought all seven units numbering them 700-726 ex RI 3000-3006 not in order. All Traded-In to EMD (LLPX) 1993-94 on GO 562-568 F59PH.

Auxiliary Power Units

GMD 12 cyl. turbo 600 kw 575 volts

800 one of three B units converted 1983 to power car.

ex BN 717 nee NP 6009B EMD 10924 2/1950

Note: 801 in 1994 to ONR re# 205

802 (nee NP 6015B) at Bathurst Street. 8/13/1990

Auxiliary Power Control Units

900 HP V16-149 600 kw 575 volt converted from ONR FP7A units
to provide electric power to trains as well as a cab for operation in opposite direction.

9861 (ex ONR 1512 2/1974) GMD A-383 6/1952 Toronto July 1974 R.E.Minnis

APCU 900 (ex 9858 rebuilt 6/1974 nee ONR 1503 GMD A177 4/1951) first of five. November 1981.

Subsequent owners

Roster with footnotes for subsequent owners:

Canadian Trackside Guide 2019
Bytown Railway Society

See also: AMT

726 became GMTX 201 lease unit after being overhauled and modified by Precision National Corp. equipped with dynamic braking, larger fuel tanks and 65 mph gearing. It became LLPX (Locomotive Leasing Partners) 3204 and all were leased 2002 to St. Lawrence & Atlantic. 3204 went off lease April 2004 and returned as LLPX 3204

Note: EMD and GATX owned LLP 50/50 from start in 1995 until GATX Rail acquired 100% in 12/2004.
This brought GATX Rail's lease fleet to 750 units including LLP's 486 units.

St.Lawrence & Atlantic 3204 and 3002 switching in yard Richmond, Quebec. 4/26/2003
This shortline operated the former CN Sherbrooke Subdivision beginning November 1998.

TRWX 124 acq. 3/1997 (ex GO 566) returning from wreck repair at CAD.

Note: One of four units (565-568) sold 3/1997 and three units (525, 527, 528) sold 3/2009.

PNWR (Portland & Western) 3004 (ex SLA 3004, ex EMDX 201 ex GO 726, ex RI 3000, nee RI 381). GP40 EMD 7942-20 1/1967.
Linnton, OR October 11, 2016.

EMDX 201 on CSX in Plant City, FL c.2/1996

Note: GO 700-726 traded in to GMD 1993. 725, 726 became EMDX 200, 201
after PNC o/h, regear 65 mph, add DB and larger fuel tanks.
See GO 724 above for details of upgrading GP40-2 710 3300HP and history.

Amtrak 197 acq. 10/1988 ex GO 506/9806 nee 606 GP40TC GMD A2130 11/1966
CN Niagara Falls, Ontario December 12, 1993

AMTK 199 (ex GO 607) in service on CN at Niagara Falls, ON. March 28, 1992. See below.

AMTK 199 enroute to Amtrak at CN Fort Erie October 15, 1988

AMTK 411 acq. 1990 (ex GO 511) part of entire 510-515 FP40PH order. Paoli, PA 11/30/1992

Note: 411 sold xxxx Iowa Pacific) Saratoga North Creek 319_411 North Creek, NY 8/10/2015
Re-sold xxxx LTEX 411 Lordstown, OH 3/25/2018

ACWR 703 acq, 6/2000 ex TBRX 703 (Taylor Machine) ex NS lease and previously leased Tri-Rail 703 11/01/1991
ex GO 703 nee 9811 GP40-2 GMD A2941 12/1973 Candor, NC June 1, 2014 Ben Helsel

ACWR 704 acq. 6/2009 Look-alike 704 is actually a slug for 703 acq. as shell from LTE ex CN 9423 A3001 4/1974
Candor, NC June 1, 2014 Ben Helsel

AMXX 1344 ex GO 549 one of ten F59PH 3200 HP units acquired 8/2011. GMD A4915 7/1990
New AMT simplified paint scheme. CPR St.Luc roundhouse 12/16/2012

North Carolina DOT Piedmont Service

The Piedmont is a twice-daily passenger train operated by Amtrak and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) between Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina. Operation began in May 1995.
North Carolina owns the rolling stock used on the Piedmont, unlike the Carolinian which uses Amtrak rolling stock.

NCDOT 1984 (nee GO 552) Piedmont train #76 departing Salisbury, NC 4/07/2021

RNCX 101 CCU (ex 18536 nee GO 536). Raleigh, NC 1/19/2019

RNCX 105 CCU (ex 18521 nee GO 521) F59PH GMD A4746 10/1988
Raleigh,NC 4/22/2022

Five Cab Control Units (101-105) converted from ex GO 536, 541, 542, 546, 521. F59PH 9/27/2019

RNCX 18546, 18542 held waiting movement to main shops for conversion.5/15/2016

RNCX 18546 undergoing conversion to 104 a CCU (non-powered). NS Altoona shops.

RNCX 18541 Altoona, PA 3/22/2016

RNCX 1810 acq. 2009.(ex GO 529) F59PH GMD A4754 6/1988 approaching station stop in Kannapolis, NC.
April 14, 2014 Reginald T. McDowell, Sr.

RNCX 1768 City of Charlotte acq. 2011 nee GO 540 GMD A4879 Harold Hodnett

RNCX 18536 ex RBRX 18536 nee GO 536 part of seven units 536-542 sold by GO 2010 to RB Railway Group.
RBRX Rosen Beaudin Leasing (D), Montreal. Remanufactured by AMF 10/1992

METRA

Metra 99 (ex GO 532) newly overhauled. NCS 115 on CP Elgin Sub. Rivergrove, IL. March 22, 2016
One of three units, (ex GO 526, 530, 532) acquired from RB Leasing. Note: 526 previously leased to AMT.

Southern California Regional Rail Authority

RBRX 18520 (nee GO 520) 1/23/2018 El Monte, CA.

RBRX 18520 nee GO 520 sold by GO 2009 to RB Railway Group.
RBRX Rosen Beaudin Leasing (D), Montreal. Remanufactured by AMF 10/1992
Total of 12 F59PH RBRX units.

Resold 2013 RNCX 18520, 18522, 18533 resold 2016 LTEX, leased 2017 to SCAX

LTEX 18520 in Los Angeles October 16, 2018.

LTEX 18520 pushing train 608 from Oceanside, CA September 13/2018

LTEX 18533 in paint scheme of MI-Train (still-born Ann Arbor-Detroit) Michigan commuter train.
Los Angeles 12/27/2019

NOTE: Out-shopped 3/2023 as WCE 907 by Progress Rail first unit of West Coast Express 5 unit rebuld program.

GALLERY 1974