NICTD 1000 GP40M and question?

[d10ng]

Hi all

Not having found many high level photos I'm trying to find out what radiator fans the NICTD 1000 GP40M has. This loco is a deturboed GP40, with the original stacks replaced with 2 new stacks. Ive got an Atlas gp40 to modify and I need to source the right fans.

To me they look a little like Q fans can anyone confirm this?

CSS&SB - Dune Park, IN by d.w.davidson, on Flickr


And this is another ok photo.

www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3674926

Thanks all
Dave
Uk

[gevo]

Yup Q fans sorta also look like early gp pan tops

[d10ng]

Thanks.
This was her in 77 as a real GP40.
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=952007

I think I'll go for Q fans with single conduit, being a deturboed power plant.

[sgoti]

Definitely early EMD pan top fans. (I downloaded the largest size available for the image you had and zoomed in.)

Now… Finding them is another matter. To my knowledge, nobody makes these particular fans in HO scale. So, Q fans would be the next closest-looking option available.

Good luck, this looks like an interesting project!

[d10ng]

Thanks for confirming the type sgoti. I know there's a few Athearn models that sport pan tops but whether they sell them as spares I'm not sure. I'll look into it.

Regards

[gevo]

Didn't quite look right but placing your finger on it sometimes

Oh atlas makes sd24 pan tops that'll work i know because i have a set 3 per package

Either thru atlas or on the water site

[d10ng]

Thanks for Atlas tip. I've found them on their site. They're the Large fan grille, fan and base right form the 24/26?

Regards

[d10ng]

Is it just me or does anyone else think that the radiator fan spacing is more akin to a gp38-2 than a original gp38? Looking at getting a Plano rad cover as I'm doing what the prototype did and starting with a GP40.
Thanks


Edit: Then again I see this photo and think there's wider spacing more like the straight 38?!?

www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1792092

[gevo]

Early gp38 spacing but look close the look like their centered over the side grills

Maybe just the way i'm looking at it

[d10ng]

You might be right, looking at this shot they do look centralized.

www.nictd1000.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2819553

Dave

[gevo]

Yup centered over each grill

[pacbelt]

Spaced more like a GP35, without the center 36" fan??
Just throwing that out.... that would be the same fan spacing as a SD38P.