Is this a term that applies to one make of engine, or is it a term that is used to cover a variety of engines?
Cuda Ken
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A "Geep" is what people call locos from the GP-series of EMD, i.e., GP9, GP18 and so on.
Ken,
A piece of advice to you and other newbies - Spend some of your time reading some background material on what your interested in. Check out of parts of the train.com website. There is a wealth of information available right here (and not in the forums or from its members) if you would just spend some time looking around. Indices, glossary of terms etc.
OY--just a simple question--was already dealt with.
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Midnight Railroader A "Geep" is what people call locos from the GP-series of EMD, i.e., GP9, GP18 and so on.
Which kind of begs the question why isn't an SD unit referred to as a "Sid"?
Andre
Here is the definition from the website American Rails:
"Geep: The affectionate term describing EMD's popular GP (General Purpose) series, which initially was meant for the first generation units, the GP7, GP9, and GP18 but later went on to describe all of EMD's GP models."
andrechapelon Midnight Railroader A "Geep" is what people call locos from the GP-series of EMD, i.e., GP9, GP18 and so on. Which kind of begs the question why isn't an SD unit referred to as a "Sid"? Andre
My neice kept referring to an SD as a SeeD
Now you make me wonder if Baldwin's AS-616 was called an "a##." You guys have a bad influence on me.
Mark
markpierce Now you make me wonder if Baldwin's AS-616 was called an "a##." You guys have a bad influence on me. Mark
You know, Mark, I had the same question but deleted it from my response.
Great minds and all that.
Of course, now when I think of E units, I think of Adrian Monk screeching and climbing on a table in one of the episodes. "Eeeeeeeeee"!!!!!
Yeah, I'm wonder about the F-units now...
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2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Ya "G.P." means General Purpose, "S.D." means Special Duty. FWIW I will refer to them as Geeps but not when used with the number...that is I sometimes hear someone refer to a GP-9 as a "Geep Nine". I prefer to say "G.P. Nine" in that context.
I think I read somewhere that there was a connection between all-purpose Army Jeeps and all-purpose Railroad Geeps, but I could be wrong.
Thanks for all the kind and edited answers. Far as engine I.D.'s I only know the ones that I own or would like to own.
What caused me to ask was when I asked about passenger train acceleration rates and it was stated that Geep's would accelerate faster than E units.
Thanks again, Cuda Ken
Of course Geeps and F's would accelerate faster than an E Unit, The Geeps and F's have 40" diameter Wheels versus the 36" Diameter Wheels of the E Unit. So for every revolution of the axle the Geeps and F's would go 4" further. They also had better tractive effort as they did not have an idler axle on each truck. Which is why F's were used in the mountains by the GN, NP, B&O and others.
Rick
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Silver Pilot Ken, A piece of advice to you and other newbies - Spend some of your time reading some background material on what your interested in. Check out of parts of the train.com website. There is a wealth of information available right here (and not in the forums or from its members) if you would just spend some time looking around. Indices, glossary of terms etc.
It also helps to know the difference between "your" and "you're".
Dave
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andrechapelonMidnight Railroader A "Geep" is what people call locos from the GP-series of EMD, i.e., GP9, GP18 and so on. Which kind of begs the question why isn't an SD unit referred to as a "Sid"? Andre
Well, I would have wondered why not "Sed", but then I have a heavy UNIX background...
John
I always thought a geep was one of those things I drove in the Army
lvanhen I always thought a geep was one of those things I drove in the Army
Spelling is a little off---"Jeep" as opposed to locomotive, "Geep"
Got a sparrow out back--sounds like he has a lisp--"Geep Geep Geep"---
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Not sure..... but it may be some kind of diseasally thingy from some time in the future. Of course I seem to be stuck in the year 1925 on the Seneca Lake, Ontario, & Western RR........
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
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Geep is the term for General Purpose Locomotives made by GM's EMD Division starting with the GP7 in 1949 and ending with the GP60 in the 90's.
The models of EMD's GP series are:GP7;GP9;GP18;GP20;GP28;GP30;GP35;GP38GP39;;GP40;GP50 and GP60.
In 1972,EMD put a slightly more powerful motor in the GP38;39 and 40 models and gave them the Dash 2 designation-GP38-2;GP39-2;GP40-2.
Hope that helped.
Which was replaced by the Humvee in the 80's.
>> What is a geep?
Its a four-wheel drive all T-rrr-RAIN vehicle...
TrainManTy I think I read somewhere that there was a connection between all-purpose Army Jeeps and all-purpose Railroad Geeps, but I could be wrong.
Since the GP-7 demonstrators first came out in 1949, only 4 years after the end of WW2, it's quite likely that railroaders and others started calling GP-series engines "Geeps" because of WW2's famous Willys-Knight "Jeep" vehicle. "G-P" easily becomes "Geep", and since the GP series were meant to be as you say "all purpose" road switchers, the connection would be an easy one to make. But AFAIK it was just a slang usage, I don't know that GM / EMD ever used the term "Geep" in their literature about the engines.
Plus keep in mind that the jeep vehicle was I believe originally called a "General Purpose" or GP vehicle in US Army literature, and calling these autos "Jeeps" proabably came partly from that and partly from the Popeye cartoon character "Eugene the Jeep" who was introduced in 1936. In the cartoons, Jeeps were four-legged animals who could climb over anything, including up the sides of tall buildings or mountains with ease.
http://hobojeepers.tripod.com/eugene.htm
Rick, We need to review your math/geometry: In one revolution of a wheel (circle), it will travel the distance around its CIRCUMFERENCE, not its Diameter. Circumference = PI x Diameter, or for the 36" wheel, (3.14 x 36) , about 113". For the 40" wheel, 3.14 x 40 is about 126". So the 40" wheel travels about 13" more per revolution, or about 9% farther... (I taught a lot of 8th grade math before bercoming a railroader/MRR.) John
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I think it was the other way around. General motors used the term GP(geep) already before the war and when the Willy's factory brought out there GP the word was already owned by their competitors. So Geep became Jeep.
Paul
jwhittenIts a four-wheel drive all T-rrr-RAIN vehicle...
That's worth a couple of rolled up newspapers-----SWAT SWAT!!
blownout cylinderjwhittenIts a four-wheel drive all T-rrr-RAIN vehicle... That's worth a couple of rolled up newspapers-----SWAT SWAT!!
Rolled up newspapers and banishment from the forum. Truly groan-worthy!
...wish I'd thought of it.
Nelson
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