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Post by spud7378 on Apr 21, 2010 16:16:28 GMT -5
ok im almost 100% sure that this doesnt exsist but is there such a thing as a wide cab gp 9 ? im looking to do a free lanced loco and i have a gp 9 sitting around, so im trying to find someing different to do with it, i was thinking a wide cab? any one else have any ideas?
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Post by danraitz on Apr 21, 2010 22:02:00 GMT -5
I remember seeing a photo of a railroad in Mexico that rebuilt a GP with an F unit nose,  of course this was YEARS ago. Does anybody else recall this beast?  |
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Post by Indy-City on Apr 21, 2010 23:09:49 GMT -5
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Post by spud7378 on Apr 22, 2010 15:46:19 GMT -5
well there it is i think im going to do a gp 9 with a canadian wide cab, thanks for the help guys!
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Post by MONONC420 on Apr 22, 2010 18:01:52 GMT -5
A CP9??? =D
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Post by spud7378 on Apr 22, 2010 20:19:28 GMT -5
could this be a gp9-2w? LOL
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Post by spike on Apr 26, 2010 23:39:44 GMT -5
That GP7 ended up in Connecticut Shore Line East commuter service. It got painted to the New Haven's Mc Ginnis colors. I don't know where it is now.
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Post by danraitz on Apr 30, 2010 22:30:54 GMT -5
I remember seeing a photo of a railroad in Mexico that rebuilt a GP with an F unit nose, of course this was YEARS ago. Does anybody else recall this beast? Knew that I wasn't suffering from Old-Timers yet! ;D ;D I found a couple of pictures of that Mexican unit. Only it wasn't a rebuilt of a GP. Randy, are you ready for this?  It was a rebuilt of an AlCo RS11.Here are some photos of it. I scaned them from a modeling article in the May 1979 issue of RMC, the photos and model were by Don Wallworth.   |
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Post by Indy-City on May 1, 2010 3:21:55 GMT -5
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Post by spud7378 on May 1, 2010 8:41:22 GMT -5
just goes to show, that anything is possible, im still not sure on the gp 9 wide cab, but im still giving it some thought
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Post by kcs1967 on May 1, 2010 11:26:31 GMT -5
HAHA High nose, no low nose, no high, nose, no low nose, hmmm lets go somewhere in the middle. I like the look those, they can't all be beauties, some have to be beasts. |
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Post by cargostar on May 2, 2010 16:32:27 GMT -5
Those are proof that doing drugs kills brain cells.....
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Post by icghogger on May 3, 2010 9:41:19 GMT -5
Those are some mugly others, but you gotta like 'em, because they're Diesels!!!
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Post by manny on Mar 23, 2011 4:33:30 GMT -5
Dang!! That is one Mugly Fother Ucker!!! I wonder what other kind of beasts were prowling the mexican railroads along with this one?
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Post by johnnetzlof on Mar 23, 2011 11:18:10 GMT -5
The MEC 471 is now owned by a Historical Society in Ohio, and its painted Blue and Yellow, but still has that home build cab.
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Post by Randy Earle on Mar 23, 2011 13:48:46 GMT -5
U=U G L Y! Yikes!
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Post by poweredby251 on Mar 25, 2011 12:04:01 GMT -5
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Post by Packer on Mar 25, 2011 17:01:10 GMT -5
Those things don't really look half bad. They look kind of like shortened alco centuries. |
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of course this was YEARS ago. Does anybody else recall this beast? 
