Poll: How many EMD GP and/or SD series locos do you have?

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Here’s one just for fun. Awhile back another forum member asked the question “How many F-units do you have?”, so I thought it might be interesting to see if collecting EMD GP and SD series locomotives is as common a virus as the F-unit bug. So, how many?

My fleet currently consists of:

One GP38, Santa Fe. (Silver and red War Bonnet)

One GP40, Army.

One SD24, Union Pacific.

One SDP40, Burlington Northern.

One SD40-2, Montana RailLink.

One SD45, Burlington.

For a grand total of two and four, respectively.

Not very impressive right now, but I intend to add more in the future.

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Yup, I’ve had that virus as well, especially when P2K was putting out their ATSF and IC GP7s and 9s. I bought one of each…14 total as I recall.

But reality set in after a few years…can’t run all of them on the layout, and they will likely never get used. So I kept two ATSF GP7s and two GP9s and run them together in consist. The rest of the locos were sold on Ebay.

I also did similar with the BLI ATSF issues as well…

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Data from the STRATTON AND GILLETTE roster:

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GP-7: 1 (Passenger Equipped)

GP-9: 3

SD-7: 1

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I have a lot more F units.

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-Kevin

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(1) NYC GP7 - Most of my early diesels are from the late '30s to late '40s.

Tom

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I have 5. 3 B&M Bluebird GP 38’s

1 Southern Pacific GP9 rubber band drive. Hanger Queen

1 GP9 Canadian Pacific junker.

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I have a total of 34 Diesel locomotives all are Southern Pacific. 32 are normal locomotives 2 are Mel kitbashed Rivarossi Krauss Maffei ML-4000 shells with shortened Athearn PA frames. All 34 are wired for DCC decoders.

This is my GP/SD fleet, the rest consist of PA1/PB1s, F7s and E7s.

GP-7 Black Widow 5324 Proto 2000
GP-7 Black Widow 5330 Proto 2000

GP-9M Black Widow 3883 Model Power (The Gutless Wonder)
GP-9 Black Widow 5610 PFM Brass Shell/Athearn Frame
GP-9 Black Widow 5623

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Since I’m a DRGW and SP fan with mostly EMD, quite a few. Around 50 SDs of various flavors and around 35 GPs.

Edit: Geeps 38, SD’s 51

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As a D&RGW fan I have 4 (one is a GP20 that isn’t prototypical though)

GP20

GP30

GP40

GP40-2

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Wow! That’s quite impressive. Your combined GP and SD fleet is more than my entire locomotive roster in all scales by about 12 locomotives![bow]

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I currently have an eclectic mix of GPs.

GP40-2 (CSX)

GP40-2 (Chessie)

GP38-2 (P and LE)

GP35 (Chessie)

GP15-1 (Conrail)

Joe

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1 GP7 (EL)

2 SD45s (EL)

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I’ve got 2 powered GP9s, one powered GP9m, and one dummy GP9. All are Milwaukee. Somewhere packed away I have an SD9, also Milwaukee, but it has no decoder and can’t make it around all my curves.

The dummy GP9 is an old Athearn blue box that used to have rubber band drive, which didn’t work, so I gutted it and made it a sound dummy.

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All except one (EMD Demonstrator) are UP. All with LokSound Select decoders excepting the BLIs). The list is from memory but surely close.

  • one GP9 (Genesis)

  • one GP30 (LL P2K)

  • EDIT: one GP35 (Kato)

  • two SD7 (BLI & LL P2K)

  • two SD40-2 (BLI & LL P2K)

  • one SD50 (LL P2K)

  • one SD60 (LL P2K)

  • EDIT: one SD70M (Genesis; EMD Demonstrator)

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My roster is a mix of everything from old BB to brass, most with sound, a few without, some modern diesels for fun, and a shelf queen or two:

2 GP7
7 GP9
1 GP10
3 GP18
2 GP35
1 GP38AC
4 GP38
1 GP38-2(W)
7 GP38-2
1 GP40
1 GP40-2(W)
1 GP40-2L
5 GP40-2
2 SD38
3 SD38-2
1 SDL39
3 SD40
2 SD40-2(W)
9 SD40-2
1 SD45T-2
1 SD60
1 SD70 Spartan Cab
1 SD70-M2

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4 GP-7s, all 4 that P2K released in Reading as delivered. That’s it. I’m an Alco fanboy.

–Randy

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I have no - zero - EMD GP or SD-series engines.

I have:

3 Stewart/Kato F-units

1 Athearn Genesis ICG F3A #1615 (ordered couple years ago, just arrived)

1 Bowser Conrail Alco C-636

1 Bower QCM Quebec Cartier Mining Alco C-636

1 Bowser Conrail Alco C-430

1 Bowser QCM M-636

1 Overland Models CN Alco/MLW M-636

1 Overland Models CN Alco C-636 (out for painting to Cartier).

John

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Currently operational, I have 4 Atlas GP-7s (one St.Paul Route, one Soo Line, 2 EMD demonstrators) and one Bachmann/Spectrum GP-30 (GN). For SDs, I have two Life-Like Proto SD-9s (DMIR and BN), a Kato and an Athearn SD-38 (both DMIR), an Athearn Genesis SD-45 (GN “Hustle Muscle”), a LL/Proto SD-60 (Oakway), and a Kato SD-70 (BN).

I also have a couple older LL/Proto GP-9s in Rock Island paint that need some work (new gears particularly) to get back online.

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I have too many to count but i do know i have more SD’s than GP’s.

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Here is my Loco list to date, all in the paint & work shops being CSS-ized

Item No.

Locomotive

Type

CSS No.

Make

Stock Code

Orignal No.

1

EMD

GP38-2

CSS 2000

Atlas Trainman

#10 001 743

Santa Fe #2372

2

EMD

GP38-2

CSS 2001

Atlas Trainman
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I’ll make a slim down list.

Atlas GP7 2

Atlas GP38 4

P2K GP7 one

P2K GP9 4

P2K GP38-2 5

Athearn BB GP7 1

Athearn BB GP35 2

Athearn BB or RTR GP38-2 7

Athearn GP40-2 2

Athearn GP50 1

Athearn GP60M 2

Athearn SD38 1

Kato GP35 1

Intermountain GP10 1

Scale Trains “Operator” SD40-2 1 with Atlas SD24 parts: MU hoses, antena sun shades and uncoupling bars.