![Silver and black diesel locomotive with red nose outside brick building](https://www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/20210929.jpg)
Passenger pioneer
Amtrak No. 583 is a 3,000-hp, six-axle EMD SDP40F. The model was the first new diesel locomotive purchased by Amtrak in the 1970s. It has a different side panel arrangement and lacks the front platform of the earlier FP45. Jim Hediger photo
a shame more weren’t saved…