Feather River GP40s is designed for optimum viewing using a screen resolution of 800x600 with color set to 16-bit or higher. Minimum requirements are a screen resolution of 640x480 using 256 colors, however, since the article design uses frames, at 640x480 not all photos will displayed will fit in the main window frame. This means you may need to use the horizontal scroll bar occasionally to view and read all the text.
 

INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTICLE

When the manuscript for "Feather River GP40s" was first submitted to Pacific RailNews (PRN) back in the Fall of 1992, it was scheduled for publication by early the next summer. Due to changes in the editorial staff at PRN and the purchase of Interurban Press by Pentrex, the article was bumped back to the spring of 1996, and was published in April of that year
without my knowledge..

I point this out because I had changes to be applied to the article before PRN published it. Instead, the article hit the streets with not quite everything right (though no glaring errors). With web page development came the opportunity to right a wrong.by posting the corrected manuscript as an online article.
 

The Roster

I like Rosters! but due to space considerions the final version of "Feather River GP40s" was published by PRN without the roster summary included with the manuscript. So for you "number crunchers" I have included not only the roster summary but also a disposition roster originally published in the second volume of The Feather River Route Vol II.

About The Photos

The photos used to illustrate this article are often in black & white, and many have been previously published in the Feather River Route books. To fill in some holes in my coverage I have borrowed images from Frank Brehm's excellent My Western Pacific Home Page. I will eventaully purchase a scanner which will allow me more flexibility in photo usage in general.

Feather River Route, Volume I
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