CN GP38-2s

[Boomer Red]

        At around what time did CN start adding snowplows to the long hood ends of some of it's GP38-2s? I have seen some like this in my area and would like to build an HO model of one .I model the period 1993-1996 and wonder if they would be out of place.

[THayman]

I think that should fit the period..when CN started ordering Dash 9's in '93/94, they came with the rear plows. I believe other locomotives were being retrofitted around this time or earlier, including the GP38's. Couldn't say for absolute sure, but you should be safe modelling it.

[Anonymous]

hello, I'm doing the same era as you I think they added them around 1988 when they renumbered the units I'm actually working on 4726 and 4732

[Boomer Red]

        I will probanly leave them off for now as they are easy to add later on. I just wish I had a digital camera so I could post some pictures of my other locomotives as well as the GP38's when there done!