GP-30 high hood loco

[Anonymous]

I'm building one using a PK2 geep shell and a one piece high hood kit , does anyone have info on where i may obtain photo's of this type of loco , i know western and maeyland used them .

[kenneo]

Do a GOOGLE search on Western Maryland and GP30. I've seen pictures of them somewhere in the past, but it was magazines.

[CShaveRR]

Western Maryland didn't have any GP30s; it was the Norfolk & Western, and the Southern, that used high-hood GP30s (UP had some cabless versions with high short hoods, but I doubt that that would be of interest).

[Anonymous]

You arecorrect , i don't know what I was thinking about when I said western and maryland except the RS-3 hammerhead I am building out of a stewart kit and I was working on this at the same time I was working on the GP-30 high hood for norfolk , I did find what I was looking for once I realized the mixup .

QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR

Western Maryland didn't have any GP30s; it was the Norfolk & Western, and the Southern, that used high-hood GP30s (UP had some cabless versions with high short hoods, but I doubt that that would be of interest).

[SSW9389]

Western Pacific had high hood GP30s on order, but they were so late in the production cycle of the GP30s that the order was changed to GP35s.

[Anonymous]

Check the following site for mountains of piccies of the High hood GP30: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nw/nw-loco.html or http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sout/sout-eng.html

And another: http://nwry.railfan.net/rosterpix.html

[Anonymous]

briggs2012-

Your tagline catches my eye. I was dismayed that there is no email address in your profile, so hopefully you'll read this. I'm an avid N&W N-scale modeler as well! I have been spending a lot of time recently, adding high noses to SD-45's and GP-30's, scratchbuilding bell mountings for the noses of my Geep-9's and -18's, and mixing my own blue paint since I model 1971, when the big black & white NW was just coming into being. For the GP-30's I was lucky enough to get a couple of JnJ shell castings several years back, which offered up the cab and nose to go onto a better-crafted Atlas Classic body. I don't know how it would be done today (at least in N-scale); my guess is it would have to be partially scratchbuilt.

[Allen Jenkins]

Front Range produced the single piece kit mentioned, however I don't know if that is available at this time. I've contemplated the 35 line Cannon cab modified, but the 30 had a tapered cab and windshield, like the century Alco. Many mag articles exist, in fact do your research and model from a picture. Take pictures in progress [don't just talk about it DO IT]! Write about it as you go along and these mags will pay you by the page, and extra for diagrams and photos. Might as well make the engine pay for itself. And by the way, if you wait long enough, the model will be produced, in your favorite road, by number, re-released, at leased once, with un-numbered versions in plastic! But no Western Maryland had no GP30 hi hoods! Enjoy your hobby!