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Yet another F40PH I would see here. 807 was the first of three MK F40PH-2Cs built new for Tri-Rail in 1992, eventually later on rebuilt into the F40PH-3C it is today. This unit is known best mainly for one thing, and that's it being the only one of the Tri-Rail F40PHs to have a K5LA rather than a P5 (it did have a P5 for a while, but it sounded really awkward, and then got replaced with the K5LA it has now, believed to have been taken from a GP49H-3). This K5LA was weak and frail at first, but with time, it's just kept getting stronger and stronger, and it's seemingly reached its peak power now, if you saw the clip I took of it pulling in, where it was nearly as powerful as one of the Old Cab Cars.

I have a lot of experience with 807, mainly with me having seen it back in 2015 when it was still Unrebuilt as an F40PH-2C barely before it was "retired", which I actually thought it already had been. And I had always liked it a lot for its old K5LA from those days, which also sounded very distinct. It was unique and distinct then, and it's even more unique and distinct now. As cool as the P5s on all the other F40s are, 807 still stands as my #1 Favorite Tri-Rail F40PH. And with GP49 817 now retired, that means 807 has also now taken the title of my #1 Favorite Active Tri-Rail Locomotive as a whole. Now hopefully once Cab Car 507 returns to service again in the New Scheme, it and 807 will be paired up so we can once again unite the Duo of my Favorites, just like how it was long ago whenever 507 and 817 were paired up. But now, it'll be "'07 and '07".