GP35m

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Although this is an upcoming project, it is a distant upcoming project. Or maybe it will take the place of the Ferromex Wednesday night project.

Anyway, I have two GP35's I need to build into CSR 35m's. One is going to be an ex SP/SSW phase II unit, but the other I want to be this one. This is the ONOLY photo I can find of it.

www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3116591

It has so much coolness going on with it. But there is something that puzzles me. It does not have a blower shut. Is this possible? can it still operate without a blower shut or is the blower still there, just a different configuration?

Since I do not have a photo of the other side, I am going to have to figure the louvers are on the same doors on the other side. This unit also has a jumbo anti-climber on it. I think it is an ex SP or SSW unit, but not sure about that

I know this is a really oddball unit, but I just have to have it. Looks like to much fun to build to now have it. The other GP35m will be a basic run of the mill looking phase II unit with the PAF box added.

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Founds its lineage.

GM&O 612
ICG 2511
VMV 3516
Paducah & Louisville 3516
Peoria & Pekin Union RR 2001
Tazwell & Peoria RR 2001
Scrapped in 2012

This makes this unit 100% open for CSR to have it. :-). Now to see if I can dig up photos of it on these other railroads.

[deez]

That is a good one Brian! Nice find. No blower hump & looks to have its radiator fans spaced weirdly. May more like a GP28. I like it, I'm diggin the funky Louvors too. . It looks to have a full size PAF box too. No custom box to build. I'm going to check those other numbers too.

[deez]

Brian look up Tazewell & Peoria RR 2001. There's more pics of it.

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Yes, I found many photos now. I posted my update in the Copper State Railway Update section.

[deez]

I think it's got the louvers because it was rebuilt again with a caterpillar motor. Too bad it doesn't have it's Alco FA trucks. It has that shorter fuel tank from the use of Alco trucks still.

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Yes, thank you for reminding me of the shorter fuel tank. By chance would you happen to know the length of the shorter fuel tank? I cannot remember.

[lajmdlr]

Brian
If that's really a GP35, it's missing the small radiator fan between the 2 large ones top rear. Is it really a GP38/39?

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No, it is a GP35 or rather a GP35m. The dead give away is the fuel tanbk and air piping running along it. Basically rebuilt to GP38-2 specs.

[bdhicks]

The Caterpillar engine would explain the lack of middle fan and the missing blower housing. It looks like when the middle fan was removed the fan hatch was also changed to put the fans closer together. (If you look at TZPR 2000, which appears to be a similar rebuild, the middle fan was also removed but the spacing remained the same.) The sill and the air intakes look like GP35 parts to me and the spacing between the dynamic blister and the radiator grilles looks too short to be a GP38. Compared to the other changes it's been through, having fans removed and shifted around is a pretty minor thing.

Also, it looks like the louvers came sometime after the rebuild, since it doesn't have any in the pictures when it was still TZPR 2001.

[deez]

No it's lineage shows that it's a GP35. You can tell by certain other details that it's a GP35, for instance the the door arrangement for the radiator and the radiator grills are a dead give away. This unit used to have Alco FA trucks and the fuel tank contours also show that it is a 35. I just love how they spaced the fans like a gp28.

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Now that it is for certain what my two GP35's are going to be, I have moved this over to my Copper State Railway update posts.

dieseldetailer.proboards.com/thread/13108/copper-state-railway-update?page=9#scrollTo=93135