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EMD F3 Expansion: Great Northern F3A and F3B Skin Pack

The EMD F3 is a 1,500-horsepower (1,100 kW) B-B freight- and passenger-hauling carbody diesel locomotive produced between July 1945 and February 1949 by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division. Final assembly was at GM-EMD's La Grange, Illinois plant. A total of 1,111 cab-equipped lead A units and 696 cabless booster B units were built.

The F3 was the third model in GM-EMD's highly successful F-unit series of cab unit diesel locomotives, and it was the second most produced of the series. The F3 essentially differed from the EMD F2 in that it used the “new” D12 generator to produce more power and from the later EMD F7 in electrical equipment.
Some late-model F3's had the same D27 traction motors, along with the heavier-duty electrical cables, used in the F7, and were referred to as model F5 by EMD's Engineering Department.

Here, we have Great Northern Freight EMD F3's.

• I know in real life at the point when the F3's were around the Freight Black Scheme had long since been retired but something about the scheme looks cool on it.
  
• Great Northern F3A 264 A & B in Great Northern's Old Freight Black Scheme *(1948 - 1954)
  
• Great Northern F3A 265 A & B in Great Northern's Old Freight Black Scheme *(1948 - 1954)
  
• Great Northern F3A 470 A & D in Great Northern's Old Freight Black Scheme *(1948 - 1954)
  
• Great Northern F3A 472 A & D in Great Northern's Old Freight Black Scheme *(1948 - 1954)
  
• Great Northern F3A 306 A & C in Empire Builder Scheme *(1948 - 1954)
  
• Great Northern F3A 430 A & D in Empire Builder Scheme *(430A: 1948 - 1967), *(430D: 1948 - 1966)
  
• Great Northern F3A 432 A & D in Empire Builder Scheme *(432A: 1948 - 1966), *(432D: 1948 - 1959 rebuilt as a GP9 in real life)
  
• Great Northern F3A 434 A in Empire Builder Scheme until 1953 then switches over to the Simplified Empire Builder Scheme *(1948 - 1966)
  
• Great Northern F3A 434 D in Empire Builder Scheme *(1948 - 1967)
  
• Great Northern F3A 436 A & D in Empire Builder Scheme until 1954 then switches over to the Simplified Empire Builder Scheme *(436A: 1948 - 1967), *(436D: 1948 - 1968 "Sold for scrap to EMD 9/15/1968 - Sold in error by CB&Q.")
  
• Great Northern F3A 438 A & D in Empire Builder Scheme until 1955 then switches over to the Simplified Empire Builder Scheme *(438A: 1948 - 1968), *(438D: 1948 - 1969)
  
• Great Northern F3A 458 A & D in Empire Builder Scheme (started life as 306 A & C renumbered in 1952) *(458A: 1952 - 1970), *(458D: 1952 - 1970)
  
• Great Northern F3A 470 A & D in Old Freight Black Scheme (started life as 264 A & B renumbered in 1954) *(470A: 1954 - 1967), (470D: 1954 - 1970)
  
• Great Northern F3A 472 A & D in Old Freight Black Scheme (started life as 264 A & B renumbered in 1954) *(472A: 1954 - 1964), (472D: 1954 - 1968)
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• Great Northern F3B 306 B in Empire Builder Scheme *(1948 - 1952)
  
• Great Northern F3B 458 B in Simplified Empire Builder Scheme *(1952 - 1967)
  
• Great Northern F3B 430 B & C in Empire Builder Scheme *(1948 - 1966)
  
• Great Northern F3B 432 B & C in Empire Builder Scheme *(432B: 1948 - 1966), *(432C: 1948 - 1959 rebuilt as a GP9 in real life)
  
• Great Northern F3B 434 B in Empire Builder Scheme *(1948 - 1966)
  
• Great Northern F3B 434 C in Empire Builder Scheme until 1953 then switches over to the Simplified Empire Builder Scheme *(1948 - 1966)
  
• Great Northern F3B 436 B & C in Empire Builder Scheme *(1948 - 1967)
  
• Great Northern F3B 438 B in Empire Builder Scheme until 1955 then switches over to the Simplified Empire Builder Scheme *(1948 - 1967)
  
• Great Northern F3B 438 C in Empire Builder Scheme *(1948 - 1967)
  
  
• *the years in brackets are the available years.

You will need the starter pack to make this work.

• A-B-A & A-B-B-A setup
  
• Group listed
  
• 4k Textures
  
• Custom light emissions
  
• Custom sounds by Mr. Cheesecake
  
• ModelCitizen couplers
  
• MSTS Trucks (see starter pack for details)
  
• Original mod by DNE, these use his fans
  
• Different skins for each unit (different numbered units)
  
• Reverse units are unmanned, lack an emission light and have different marking numbers, as well as no horn or bell.

• Top speed of 65mph for freight.
  
• Weight = 234,000 lb (106,000 kg)
  
• Tractive effort = 55,000 lb/f
  
• Power = 1500HP