My GEXR Roster

[OSR_182]

Hi All,

My little photo diorama is nearing completion, so I thought I'd post a photo of some of my engines on it.

The photo shows three of the units belonging to RailAmerica shortline Goderich-Exeter, which runs from Goderich to Georgetown Ontario (with trackage rights on CN to Toronto, and branches to Exeter and London). The first is GEXR 3835, an ex-GM&O GP38AC, custom painted (though it needs a bit of work at the moment). The second is an Intermountain ex-CN FP9; currently, both of their F's are stored bad order in Goderich with draft gear problems (they've actually been sold to Sterling Rail). The last one is a P2K GP38-2, custom painted for LLPX 2210, one of two yellow and grey GP38-2's on lease to the railroad. They seem to operate primarily out of Kitchener/Guelph.

The FP9 dates this consist to about 2005 or so, before it was stored. I only saw it once, but it was parked that day, not running. The 3835 was subsequently moved to another RailAmerica shortline, Southern Ontario Rail, in Hamilton/Hagersville, and then to Ottawa Valley Railink, after they had a washout and wrecked a couple of units. One of the guys that I know who works for RA said the 3835 "had trouble pulling itself"! The 2210 is still on GEXR, one of five four-axle engines remaining in operation.

In addition to these, I'm also working on GEXR 3821 (similar to 3835), RLK 2211 (an ex-CP GP35), and RLK 4096 (an ex-CN GP40). I'll post photos of these when I have more time.

Anyway, hope you like the photos:





Thanks for looking,
Cheers,

Peter.

[icghogger]

They look nice, Peter, tell us what you did to them.

[spud7378]

as from being from southern ontario, i have seen all these units! great job peter!

[OSR_182]

Thanks for your interest, Robert, Kevin.

The 3835 started out as an Atlas Master Line Undec that I bought from a LHS just before they closed down, a couple of years ago. I painted the red, then used the bottom of the radiator grills as a guide to mask off for the grey. I love paint schemes with simple separation between the colours! The decals were a mixed bag, with some dry transfers included as well (for the road numbers on the cab sides - I needed something with a heavier font than anything else I could find). After that, it was pretty straight foward to put together. The engine was in Hamilton for a short time, so I was able to get some prototype photos of the real thing; at the time, it have a yellow snowplow, so that's why mine is yellow. It has since been painted black, so I might do that too.

The P2K GP38-2 was pretty easy as well. First the yellow (Tamiya colours for both units), and then the grey. This one stated out as a BNSF engine that I stripped and primered. Interestingly, the unit has no rear number boards in prototype, so decalling was pretty easy (Highball Graphics set used). The main thing on this one was that I didn't have the right size fuel tank, so I sliced and diced the original and shortened it to the right size.

The FP9 was the easiest - just walk into the hobby store, pay and bring it home... I do plan to weather it a bit one of these days though.

On another note, I finished up the decalling on GEXR 3821, (similar to 3835), so I'll post some photos shortly of it.

Thanks for looking,
Cheers,

Peter.

[Randy Earle]

One of these days I'm gonna get a diorama. Good luck on that, so far it looks cool.

[tamaman]

Very cool!

[hlcx4300]

Great Work, Glad to see another modeler of the GEXR! I have modeled a few units off of their roster, HLCX SD40-2CLC #6091 & HLCX SD40M-3 #6522. I had a few of the red n grey GP units to but I sold them on ebay...

[mgwsy]

Eventually I plan to model the GEXR 3843 the way it looked like when we got it on the NECR.

mgwsy.smugmug.com/Trains/NECR/GEXR-3843

[Canadian Atlantic Railway]

Nice to see some GEXR power. I did the 4022 when the "New" Atlas GP40 first came out.