Does anyone have the story behind BN # 2211, once a GP30? Please post pics if you have em'. I would like to model this one and was looking for info. on it. Thanks!, Chuck
Chuck, BN #2211, a EMD GP30, was built in May of 1963 as Great Northern #3011. In February 1985 she was retired and sold to General Metals presumably for scrap. For photos have you tried www.rr-fallenflags.org and http://archive.trainpix.com/BN/INDEX.HTM Dan
Odd, but right now on Epay there's a really nice slide of #2211 that ends today in 10 hours! She lives on in pic's!
Isn't this the one that had its cab rebuilt after a wreck and then was quite hard on the eyes? That is, it was really ugly.
Pictures of ugliness... http://archive.trainpix.com/BN/EMDORIG/GP30/2211.HTM http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bn/bn2211bdb.jpg
Hmmm, quite an interesting locomotive, some of the GP39's look like that but without the extra cab windows. Kevin
Whoa! That is interesting... I bet they rebuilt it in their home shops... I remember that the Southern had a couple of GP30's that were wrecked and sent back to EMD for repair... they were returned in full GP35 bodies! Harold
I'm going to play thread necromancer to ask a question. Does anyone have an overhead shot of this loco? I happen to have an undecorated phase Id GP30 that is not suitable for the project I intended, and would work well for this (I'd have to rectify the rear sand filler, but that'd be about it.)
Two of the photos of BN2211 on www.Trainpix.com are from my collection of colour slides. One photo was taken here in Rainier on "A"Street and the "before" photo was taken from a moving car on St Helens Road at Willbridge
