Just for the record, we never had a track/train dynamics derailment of an SDP40F on Santa Fe, and we ran them long distances, fast. We even bought a group of them from Amtrak and re-fitted them for freight service. No problems at all. And I did not get this information from reading railfan magazines. I was there.
It sounds to me like Metra is going to be getting a good deal on good locomotives.