Can someone explain what a GP-30C is? I saw one on the Twin Cities and Western and it looks nothing like a GP-30. On researching the loco number, I found that it is a rebuilt ex- soo unit. What, if anything, is left of the GP-30 it began life as.
The GP30C's were originally UP GP30's that were sold to SOO by way of NRE and rebuilt by Generation II locomotives with Caterpillar engines as GP30C's in 1990.
Much of the original GP30 carbody was reconfigured during the rebuild and this is why these units do not have the humpback appearance of a normal GP30. Probably the largest single part of the original GP30 is the frame that the locomotive is built on. The same company which rebuilt these GP30's as GP30C's also converted several GP9's into model GP15C's and GP20's into GP20C's.
Bryan Jones
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