I’m not talking about the BEEP either. At first sight this road switcher is a GP9. But when you look at the frame and short hood, it looks something non-EMD. The photo description says this loco was originally a Baldwin AS16. This former-Baldwin was MKT/KATY, and C&NW in the late 70s.
http://www.locophotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=101137
.
I've seen other pictures of this engine I believe. Apparently the Baldwin hood didn't accomodate the EMD engine too well so had to be rebuilt to do so.
If you have a copy of the DIESEL SPOTTER"S GUIDE (the older first and second editions) there are pictures and a table detailing major repowering projects from the fifties and sixties.
MKT sent quite a few first generation locomotives to EMD to be rebuilt and repowered.16 AS-16s were rebuilt between 1958 and 1960 with 1500 HP 567-16 egines. MKT also had repowered BLW/BLH S12's and DS4-4-10's as well as ALCO FA's and RS3's....
"I Often Dream of Trains"-From the Album of the Same Name by Robyn Hitchcock
The C&NW Historical Society had a very large cover story recently on repowered Baldwins. Basically the Baldwins were either re-powered or re-tired by about 1970. Many of those that were repowered went on for many more years of service.
http://www.cnwhs.org/shopping/product_info.php?products_id=388&osCsid=09dde9c179f60eb3e74a81aa0d1903a7
I recently saw one of the repowered Baldwins (a VO44-1000m with an EMD engine) still working at a grain facility in Mooresville, NC.
Re-powered Baldwins were not that uncommon, with MKT and C&NW probably having the largest fleets of such cross-breeds. Most, but not all of them wound up with EMD hoods replacing the original Baldwin sheetmetal. EJ&E's repowered centercabs are an interesting example of the bodywork needed to fit an EMD switcher hood to a Baldwin locomotive.
Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.