Southern Railway GP 9

[Vlad]

Here is one of my southern models that's nearing completion. All that's left to do is to add couplers, coupler levers, and cutting out the side skirts per prototype. Eventualy it will receive a tsunami sound decoder.

[oldrail]

MU receptacles?

Dick Haave

[jr59]

Wow, that's cool! Can the Door be opened and closed? Great work!

[spud7378]

Nice job and great weathering

[icghogger]

Nice Work, Vlad!!

[hotshot3305]

Excellent work!! I love those old green units.

[liengineerbob]

WOW....that looks great.......excellent work all around.

[Packer]

Nice work. I always though the Southern's Geeps were all black. When were southerns Geeps green?

[Vlad]

Thanks everyone. I made a mistake  I said it was a GP 7. Its Actually a GP 9   I built this GP 9 because as far as I know no one has come out with a Southern green one. I believe that most of Southern diesels were painted green before 1958. With the purchase of SD24's in the black and white tuxedo scheme, Southern repainted all their units black and white. At least thats what I read. I could be wrong.

[dale]

I believe early switchers & road switchers were solid black with a silver pinstripe & f units (ft's) were black in the tuxedo scheme we all know, maybe green was first used on E units then F2's & 3's I think they had F2's, everything stayed green till the black showed back up in the late 50's

[Vlad]

Here is the photo of the original Southern #6899. I'm aslo working on a Southern FM H16-44 like the trailing unit in the photo.
Photo used with permission from Tom Daspit
southern.railfan.net/images/archive/southern/gp9/sou6899a559.html

[sd45longhoodfoward]

what can i say but Southern Perfection at its best!!

[CP_8530]

There's a lot of nice Southern stuff popping up here!