Posted by on September 12, 2014  NH FA's in the 60's....SWEET! Posted by Donald Haskel on September 13, 2014  Holy Catfish Posted by Sid Vaught on September 13, 2014  Best looking cab units ever built. Posted by miningcamper on September 13, 2014  Coincidentally, I was looking for a fine shot of a New Haven FA the day before yesterday, and here it is! It's an FA-1, though, and appears to be the 0426. Posted by Rich Brown on September 14, 2014  WOW, 4 units of the SAME make & model, that's pretty AMAZING for the New Haven I remember. Posted by Ken Patton on September 15, 2014  The 0426 is one of a eight FA/FB units rebuilt by Alco to 1600 hp in 1959, all having the same paint scheme. Airbrake and MU changes allowed these, plus four other FBs, to be pooled with a group of rebuilt RS-3s, plus the 60 ( GP-9, RS-11 and H-1644) road switchers of 1956. This did not favor "pure" hook-ups. The original FA/ FBs only MUed with each other. Most were traded in toward the Alco C-425s and U-25Bs . Beginning in 1966 and into Penn Central (1969) matching sets of "Four Hundreds" proved well suited to trains BL-1/ LB-2; heavy tonnages, secondary track speeds and no switching on line.

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