UNION, Ill. — One of Santa Fe’s last locomotives to haul the Super Chief is now running again at the Illinois Railway Museum. In a Tuesday news release, museum officials say they’ve restored and successfully tested Santa Fe FP45 No. 92. Offic…
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/06/05-illinois-railway-museum-restores-santa-fe-no-92
Happy they preserved a FP-45 it was designed as a transitional locomotive, in my view.
Orange Empire Railway Museum, California is also working in gettingt their '45 ready to run.
The FP45 was hardly a transitional design, it was an SDP45 placed in a full-width carbody to satisfy Santa Fe’s proclivities about appearance and accomplish unit reduction on passenger trains.