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Here are some photos of my Sunset/3rd Rail New Haven Railroad FL-9 #2043. As far as I know, Sunset is the only manufacturer to have made an O gauge/scale model of an FL-9.

Sixty EMD FL-9s were delivered to the New Haven Railroad, 30 in 1956 and 30 more in 1960 (Classes EDER-5 and EDER-5a). They were a dual-mode locomotive designed to operate on the New York Central's 660-Volt DC third-rail electric power from Woodlawn, New York 12 miles into Grand Central Terminal and as a conventional diesel-electric elsewhere on the New Haven Railroad. The rear truck had three axles, two of which were powered, to better distribute the locomotive weight on the Park Avenue Viaduct leading into GCT. The New Haven Railroad did not own any EMD F-series four-axle diesel-electric locomotives such as EMD F-3s. The first 30 FL-9s were ordered during the administration of Patrick McGinnis when the New Haven was anticipating the elimination of electric motors (such as EP-2s and EP-3s) on passenger trains into GCT.

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