mikep758
Changes
Visiting the Caltrain station at Fourth and King Streets in San Francisco for the first time since a vacation with my parents around 1987 revealed alot of changes. Hard to believe at that time the Caltrain F40PH's were only a couple years old. I remember wandering around freely with my dad, now the entire facility and approach tracks are competely fenced off. Even the doors to the platforms at the station are locked unless a train is loading on that track. Standing on top of a guardrail in the employee parking lot I was able to get a few shots of the Saturday afternoon lineup. I also managed to find one unlocked door to a platform before finding out the rest were locked. Most of the 20 original F40PH units have been rebuilt with separate Caterpillar generators after being rebuilt by Alstom in 1999, redesignated F40PH-2CAT. They also roster 3 F40PH-2C units built by Boise in the late 90's and 6 MP36PH-3C built by MPI in the early 2000's. With electricfication of this line planned for the near future it looks like major changes are coming.
San Francisco, California
July 30, 2016
Changes
Visiting the Caltrain station at Fourth and King Streets in San Francisco for the first time since a vacation with my parents around 1987 revealed alot of changes. Hard to believe at that time the Caltrain F40PH's were only a couple years old. I remember wandering around freely with my dad, now the entire facility and approach tracks are competely fenced off. Even the doors to the platforms at the station are locked unless a train is loading on that track. Standing on top of a guardrail in the employee parking lot I was able to get a few shots of the Saturday afternoon lineup. I also managed to find one unlocked door to a platform before finding out the rest were locked. Most of the 20 original F40PH units have been rebuilt with separate Caterpillar generators after being rebuilt by Alstom in 1999, redesignated F40PH-2CAT. They also roster 3 F40PH-2C units built by Boise in the late 90's and 6 MP36PH-3C built by MPI in the early 2000's. With electricfication of this line planned for the near future it looks like major changes are coming.
San Francisco, California
July 30, 2016