While Burlington Northern Santa Fe has a (substantial) fleet of GP28s GP30s GP35s and etc. Every other railroad retired locomotives of these types long ago. What is up with that?
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Terry - our GPS are used for mostly yard work - or taking some cars to our lots of local elevators, industrial plazas. I see one once in awhile coming from the south - freight - but don’t know where it originated - It could have been at the edge of town our out of state.
But most of the GPs have been put into just push 'em around service. They seem to run ok and get the job done and you don’t need a big 70/9 to do that kind of work.
Mookie
just to add to mookies comments they can get into tight switching spots better than the bigger locos.
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Joe
Yeah, that too! Thanks Joe!
Makes me wonder if they will go to when they wear out all these oldies.
Just depends on how the RR approaches their engines. The UP decided that rather than rebuild a whole bunch of 567 engines, they purged the 567’s in the late 80’s and went toward an all 645, Dash 2 or better fleet. So while the BN/ATSF/BNSF rebuilt 567’s the UP concentrated on GP38-2’s and rebuilt those in kind.
Dave H
Many of these were rebuilt with 645 prime movers and D77 traction motors. BNSF is still running many B23-7 locomotives, also.
What BNSF calls “GP28s” are not like the 1800-horsepower locomotives of that model built by EMD. Although they’re rated at only 1800 horsepower, they’re basically GP38-2s. They were rebuilt from early Geeps, but about the only visible component of the original unit was the frame.