Hey all,
I have never really paid attention to the GP7 and GP9 B units until I finally got a nice P2K GP7 and said WOW, I wanna double or triple head with these nice babies… So, I see that there are some kits to make a GP7 or GP9 B unit, but I have never seen any… below is a pic of the real deal! Show me your models! Also, where did you get (or how did you make) the parts/conversion… Thanks for any info.
http://www.locophotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=74870
Brian
http://www.modelrailroadphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=2660
http://www.modelrailroadphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=2659
I now have another matching A unit for this set.
Phil
no pics yet, but later. I took an athearn gp9 (or 7 whatever they did) popped the cab off used sheet plastic cut and carved, drilled holes, laid it in, look good enuff to me. Painted to a test paint scheme of the club I was in with its decals, kinda the deep maroon Norfolk and Western style.
Just curious, why do you need B units, why cant just double or triple head A units?
Well I learned something today. I didn’t even know there were any B unit Geeps, and I’m a transition era modeler. I had seen cabless slugs but I always assumed these had been converted from cab units. I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a photo of a powered B unit.
GP9B’s were bought by UP and PRR. We saw a UP unit above, here’s a link to one’s belonging to PRR/PC/CR: http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/gp9b/gp9b.html
The only GP7B’s were 5 bought by ATSF: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=48420
Walthers list Hi-Tech Details-B Unit convrsion kits for Proto GP9 diesels #331-5011.
Should be just what you want for a Pennsy Beep
Steve
Pretty sure UP had GP7 B’s as well… trying to find the site where I had have seen it…
Brian
How about GP30B’s? Done by my good friend Jim Drennan.
A link to many more custom made GP’s and SD’s here:
http://cps3751.googlepages.com/bunits
SD40 and SD45B’s too.
heres mine, complete with 2 micro bulbs for headlights, constant lighting, no DCC yet. Bulk of my stuff is DC. Still need to work on the handrails.
A unit has a full interior
Neutrino,
SWEEET GP30…and I don’t even like modern stuff!!! heheheh.
Dinwitty,
Love yours too…what road is that…gorgeous maroon! Thanks for the pic’s… I may have to pickup an P2K unit and covert her…
Brian
Nope…Santa Fe had the only GP7B’s.
Rather freelance decaled to the St Joe Valley club railroad.
N&W geep, I wasnt even trying to copy the N&W it was all creative thinking, found the N&W version and they were maroon. Did the geeps years ago.
Yup, you are right. I read an ol’ fashioned book at the bookstore last night that confirmed there were no GP7B’s for UP…
Brian
Cabless roadswitcher diesel locomotives were rare. For example, the SP had some cabless roadswitcher locomotives, such as the EMD TR6 calves and Baldwin ASB-616s. While these SP units were designed and used for road service, they ended up as yard switchers, particularly at hump yards. Of course, cabless passenger and freight “covered wagons” such as EMD’s EB and FB units, most often purchased in A-B or A-B-B-A combinations, were very common.
Mark
To add to the data
GP7b-ATSF,
GP9B -PRR, UP
There were other B such units of other lokies like the SD24b and the DD40B
Guess who liked those B units, the UP.
Here’s mine:
Okay, So It’s not a geep And I doubt such an animal existed on the prototype; we’ll have to check with a Pennsy expert on that one, Dave? Anyway, I thought it was cool when I bought it over 30 years ago.
Still looks cool!!! Even if not a GP… I must admit, I like B units too…they spice up the locomotive pool and as posted, can be rare in the real world to see…
Brian
It’s a little bigger than what you model, but I saw this yesterday:
http://picasaweb.google.com/jd5961/FrankfortRoundhouse/photo#5185932254365115714
I think it’s a GP 60, but I could be wrong.
Yep, definately one of the few GP60Bs that BNSF got from ATSF in the merger.
-Brandon