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Just finished up a couple new Train MOC’s this week and figured I’d share with
the community. First up is my take on the EMD GP-9. The EMD GP9 is a 4-axle
diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between
January 1954 and August 1963. Power was provided by an EMD 567C 16-cylinder
engine which generated 1,750 horsepower. This locomotive type was offered both
with and without control cabs; locomotives built without control cabs were
called GP9B locomotives. The GP9B locomotives were built between February 1954
and December 1959.
3,436 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads, 646
were built for Canadian railroads and 10 were built for Mexican railroads. Five
units were built for a railroad in Brazil. Of the GP9B, 165 examples were built
for American railroads.
Many rebuilt GP9s remain in service today with shortline railroads and
industrial operators. Some remain in rebuilt form on some major Class I
railroads, or as switcher locomotives. Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian
National Railway still have many in their fleets in 2007 as switcher
locomotives.
Not to toot my own horn here, but I’m actually particularly proud of the way I
managed to put a drop-out at the steps at each end. I like this better than the
way the official BNSF GP-38 was done.
More of the GP-9 pictures can be found
here.
Also, I received my Bricklink order last week and finished up my truss bridge
for Brickworld 2008. The bridge is 136-studs long and is self-supporting. You
can read the original bridge thread here.
More Bridge Pictures
That’s all I have for now. I’ve got a couple more MOC’s in the works I need to
get done before the La Crosse Model Train Show on March 8-9. And then it’s a
mad dash to get ready for Brickworld in June. Should be fun!
-Dave
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| (...) ::snip:: Nice work, Dave! That's one big bridge... And the loco looks quite faithful to a GP9 - was it built from parts in the Hobby Train Box? It has the look of that same color scheme. -Jordan Schwarz (17 years ago, 7-Feb-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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