What would be some locomotives that will work with a GP-9? I now know a
C-630 will work but what other ones?
NH ran RS-11’s, H16-44 (late model), FB-2’s, and rebuilt RS-3’s, FA-1’s, FB-1’s with their GP9’s.
They were “MU-able”.
GP9s are still in service. Are you refering to something like the first decade that GP9s were in service? If so here are some more locomotives that were used around then (it seems like the GP9s were first built around 1957, so I am looking at 1957-1967).
GP18
GP20
GP30
GP35
GP38
GP39
GP40
SD18
SD24
SD35
SD38
SD39
SD40
SD45
SW1
SW7
SW9
SW1000
SW1500
U25B
Possibly the U28B through U33B and six axle versions
Probably anything ALCo, Baldwin, or Fairbanks Morse as I think they stopped producing locomotives around this time.
Locomotives such as the GP/SD38, GP/SD39, GP/SD40, SD45, SW1000, and SW1500 came around toward the end of this era (1966 if I remember correctly).
Thankyou now just to keep my eyes peeled for these ones. I still have no idea what era I want them in but probably you may still find the odd one of these locomotives today. Also it is probably a better idea to date the locomotive to the 70’s being that that is where most of the buildings you buy for MR’s are dated to.
Don’t forget all the F units, FT, F2, F3, F7, F9. Many RRs sandwiched the GP7 and 9s in between the various A and B F units.
Rick
The above is not quite correct about the built dates…
The GP-9 was built between January 1954 and December of 1959.
They were well into production in 1957 - the NH got theirs in '56.
Next onto buildings…
Finlay, you might be interested to know many buildings are not for the 1970’s, rather earlier - there is a large, if not larger market of 1900-1950’s buildings available.
Thanks for the correction, I was trying to remember off the top of my head. That is why I wrote it seems like.
“Work with”?
In DC, same brands only using similar chassis.
In DCC, EMD Funits, ALCO PA’s, & RS’s, FM HH’s, and misc. switchers.
The GP-7 was a geared down Road Switcher version of the F-7 and similarly the
GP9 was similarly the same as the F-9. Road Switcher bodies provided easier access to repairs on the engine and generators.
You’ve got a CP GP9, right? Which paint scheme is it in? That’ll narrow the field. Also, does it have a low nose or the original?
A couple of locos that still smelled of wet paint when the first GP-9 went into service:
N&W S1a, AKA USRA 0-8-0.
N&W Y6b numbers 2197-2200
A lot of older steam was still in service, and not only on Norfolk and Western.
I agree w/ trainboyH16-44. Also narrow down an era for yourself if you can. Then take a look at what else you want. A unchopnosed Geep on CP Rail would be appropriate from 1954 to around 1980ish. (don’t recall the date of their rebuild) Remember to do what you want, It is your railroad.
Don’t forget those EMD E units. They were everywhere! During the 60s many E7s and E8s were being used in freight and commuter service.
The paint sheme for my GP-9 is the red with the multimark symbol. My CP GP-9 is also the chop-nosed version.
GP and SD 9’s can run with anything from 1956 ( they were introduced in 1955) thru 1995…SP pulled the last ones out of service in 1995…the Siskiyou line of the Shasta Route in Oregon saw the last of them…i remember in 1993 all the geep9’s and sd’s were pulled out of service in Houston from the Sunset route…they were all lined up and coupled together on a holding track under the IH 45 bridge for awhile, and then they were gone…never to be seen in service again…chuck
Okay, that narrows it down quite a bit. CP started really chopping them in the late '70s, and you could check out when that particular number to see when it was chopped. I’d say that for CP at least, you could run RS-10s, RS-18s, (High nose and low nose) lots of SD40s and GP38s, M630s, C424s, and you could go as late as the AC4400CW era, we’ve still got a lot of multimarked and chopped GP9s runnign around today, so that means you could also run SD40-2Fs, SD90s and AC4400s, but don’t mix them with the ALCos!
How come no ALCo’s??
yeah…why not run them with the alcos?..I’ve seen them plenty of times running with an RS-3’s, and RS-11’s…check out the photo…that’s an alco if i’ve ever seen one right behind the GP 9
Um, did you not read my post - the first reply here?[V][V]
RS-11’s, FB-2’s, rebuilt RS-3’s, FA-1’s, FB-1’s…
Ah, but he has since gotten more specific - he has a CP Rail chopnose GP9 in the Multimark scheme, which narrows it down rather a lot.
CP chopnosed the GPs in the late 1980s or early 1990s, by which time the RS10s were long gone. In yard and local service there were lots of RS18s (chopped and full-height nose) and SW1200RSs into the '90s, although the GP9s outlived both.
Appropriate medium-horsepower engines would include the GP35s, C424s and GP38s in the eighties and nineties; after that just the GP38s.
Road engines would be C630s and M636s into the late 90s, plus SD40-2s and SD40-2Fs from the eighties into present day. Starting from the nineties you’d find AC4400s and SD90MACs. You’ll also find some high-nosed SD40-2s with the cab windows painted over (some in NS black, some in KCS white and some repainted in CP red), and for something really different, a handful of SD40M-2s (with SD45 carbodies) in red.
WHoops, sorry. Missed the chop nosed part. Thanks Will.