Nickle Plate GP30s : What happened to them?

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I am planning on modeling a fictional shortline in the 90s and one of the locomotives I got was the Bachman GP30 in Nickle Plate colors.

I want to have a feasible background for my fleet and I was wonderring what happened to the NKP GP30s? Did they end up in N&W colors? What happened tot hem after the N&W/SOU merger? I know there’s two active in Ohio, but are their any others? How many survived into the 1990s?

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Maybe this link will answer some questions for you.

http://thedieselshop.us/NKP.HTML

Joe

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While they are frustratingly not in chronological order, try here:

http://rrpicturearchives.net/orderList.aspx?order=5647&mfg=EMD

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One ended up in the Mad River and NKP Museum in Bellevue, Ohio.

Kevin

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Not that this answers your question, but a real shortline that operates in NE Indiana and southern Michigan currently uses an ex RDG GP30 painted in a NKP-ish scheme. And it has the dynamic brake grills like your bachmann model. The real NKP did not have dynamic brakes, so the grill was just sheet metal. Some info just in case you want to be picky.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=187421

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Reading heritage is very obvious - how can you tell? The drip rails above the cab windows. 5517 lives! INE kept her Conrail number.

–Randy

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Here is a link to EMD GP30 901 Nickle plate road…

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locopicture.aspx?id=161478

One of the pics…