GP40 pictorial

I have been getting around to scanning and posting some of my old photos. I thought I would start with the GP40's, since they are basically extinct on CSX now.

Here's the lowest number GP40 (in the last numbering scheme) that I caught:


It looks like the previous lettering is showing through; I definately see an "O" (B&O or C&O)

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The former Chessie System units were the lowest number units; here is an early repaint:


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Here's another Chessie System unit, this time in Hamlet yard and mated to a yard slug:


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Another early repaint:


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Here's a Chessie unit in the Raleigh yard... mp 156


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This was a treat.... a B&O unit, again at the yard in Raleigh:


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Here's another B&O unit, this time paired up with another "extinct" unit, a GP16:


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A much better shot of a Chessie unit:


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A different angle and Chessie unit.... CSX has been removing the classification lights, but still no ditch lights:


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Those are very nice photos! I didn't realize that Chessie paint lasted into the 90's (albeit renumbered and with the B&O/C&O/WM painted out).

 

If memory serves, 6565 remained in Chessie paint it's whole life, as was one of the locomotives that was used to remove cars from the Baltimore tunnel fire a few years ago.

As of the sixth of march, 6565 is now RCPHE4 #9120 in Wyoming Yard, Grand Rapids, Michigan. One of only 3 or so engines in the roster still in Chessie paint.

[ April 24, 2005, 10:52 PM: Message edited by: CP&E 3207 ]

 

Pat,
I just read the same thing about # 6565! Whatever happened to the great "converted flatcars" that CSX was using for remote control.. did they fall from favor for the "dummy" loco concept?

Harold

 

i knew they had those weird looking flat cars, The only time I've seen one was in South Charleston, WV with an MP15 doing yard switching. I assumed it was required for some special moves, as they had headlights and ditchlights on the one I saw. Maybe the MP's and SW's sisn't have room for RC stuff?

Thjose cars are equpped with standard roller bearing wheel sets, so they aren't powered as slugs (they'd be way too light to be effective anyhow)

 

Matching paint wasn't a priority:


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Blue and grey was nice:


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In the early days of Blue and Grey, they used to be sublettered for the railroads:


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Here's an ex-Chessie unit mated to a "stealth" SD40:


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I really like all of these pictures! I see a B&O (pre Chessie) unit peeking in to one of the pictures. That one was taken in 1994? Wow, I would have thought B&O paint was long gone by then. I'm beginning to think I can run quite a collage of paint schemes and have no trouble calling the whole thing CSX!

 

I recall an unrebuilt GP30 in B&O Sunburst paint working the switching job here in Buckhannon as late as Summer of 1997. It even had brandnew ditchlights.

I wish I had enough knowledge and sense to grab a picture of it, as it was likely in it's last weeks of operation before retirement.

 

Glad you like the photos... I might could be convinced to post a "few" more

Harold