An Amtrak F40PH, or at least what remains of it, has been donated to the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City, south of Las Vegas. Amtrak 315 was donated by its previous owner, Western Rail near Spokane, Wash., to the museum in March. The locomotive, which no longer has a prime mover, will be moved to Nevada in the coming months. 

The timing of the donation is good: March marks the 50th anniversary of the first F40PH locomotive being delivered to Amtrak. The engines were essentially a passenger version of EMD’s popular GP40 freight locomotive, and became synonymous with passenger railroading in North America during the final decades of the 20th century. 

The museum said it plans on putting the locomotive on display and using the interior as a display space for an exhibit about the F40PHs and Amtrak in Nevada. 

—Justin Franz