Is that a sliding patio door on the fireman's side of that ADM unit Jeff posted?
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Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Yes. In Vernon Tx there are two Geeps that switch a couple of grain elevators. They are a GP7 and GP10 in one of the best railroad paint schemes I have ever seen. Also they are both named, which is something you don’t very see often.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/LocoPicture.aspx?id=81256
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?id=BCQ
The only one that I can think of is Penn Central RS3 #9950. It's short hood was removed when the loco was rebuilt and EMD powered.
Chuck - Modeling in HO scale and anything narrow gauge
I cannot speak for every EMD unit, but I am fairly certain that removing the short hood from a GP7 or GP9 would require a tremendous amount ot rework. There is equipment up there.
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I had a tiny bit of experience with old GP9s on the Seminole Gulf Railway in the early 1990s... TINY BIT.
During a major repower/overhaul/conversion/rebuild it could happen, but it is not simply a matter of Fred the Engineer saying "I can't see well", and then Bill the Welder shows up with a cutting torch and says "I will fix that for you".
-Kevin
Living the dream.
What I am asking is units that have had their entire short hood removed for better visibility.
Like that adm unit.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Every so often I go to Google maps and look for train yards. When I find one, I find the closest road and go to street view and I get to look at the yard. Some have good views and some don't. A couple of weeks ago, I was looking at a NS locomotive facility in Pennsylvania (can't remember where) and it had some Geeps at the facility with the noses removed. I thought that was kind of odd.
The D&RGW had an SD9 that got a chopped nose IIRC due to an accident and it was used as a yard switcher in Grande Junction Colorado for a number of years.
http://www.drgw.net/gallery/v/DRGWDieselContainer/SD9s/DRGW5305/drgw_5305_grandjunction_co_26_apr_1973_000.jpg.html
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
I think he's talking about the entire nose being removed. I think most such modifications were done by new industrial owners after they were sold off by the railroads. ADM has some GP7/9 models where the entire nose is gone.
www.railpictures.net/photo/563087?id=563087&showexif=1
To me, the GP30 models that have been converted to gensets look funny with the long hood cut down and modified.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/locoslides/25219042524
Jeff
I do believe tjat unit belonged to an upper midwest road.
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
Lots of GP and SD9s were chopped.
Do a Google search for chop nosed emd gp9 and take a look.
https://tinyurl.com/yap8oya5
some SD9s too:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2749812
There's plenty more but these immediately come to mind.
Google will help.
Ed
I saw a picture a while ago of a Alco RS or RSD that had its short hood removed for better visibility in yard service, it was a PC unit, anyways I mentioned it to guy at the club a while back and I said how it'd be cool to see something like that on a EMD unit, he said that such a unit did exist I don't recall the model or railroad, he didn't have a picture of it, I've tried a few Google searches and no luck.
Anybody out there heard of a EMD locomotive that had its short hood removed for switcher service?
(Disclaimer: this is not another one of my "new flavor of the week" questions, I'm just curious if such a unit existed.)