The May/June issue of Diesel Era has an article about the Chessie GP15T's and shows pictures of them in both Chessie and CSX liveries. I did not know that the GP15 line sold over 350 units, although the GP15T model only accounted for 28 units, 25 of which were bought by Chessie System. Chessie
Yes and chessie's were one of the only ones to have dynamics. And they were turbocharged. ------------------ Theres no such thing as having to many coal hoppers or GP40-2 when you model Chessie System LONG LIVE THE KITTEN!!! LONG LIVE BIG BLUE!!!
Yeah, the GP15 is a bit of a dark horse, and crept up on us! I too had not realised how many there were, and they are good-looking machines ------------------ Alan The perfect combination - BNSF and N Scale! www.ac-models.com Andersley Western Railroad Alan's American Gallery Alan's European Gallery Alan's British Steam Gallery
Yes, the GP15's were EMD's answer to the "Paducah" rebuilds and similar programs run by railroads in the US (like Seaboard's GP16 program, too). I think it was also an excellent marketing ploy: by using trade in components from GP7/9's, it lowered the railroads cost of acquiring the units, PLUS, kept the locos from being available on the "used" market (which forced more new loco purchases). Chessie
Conrail owned the most right? ------------------ Theres no such thing as having to many coal hoppers or GP40-2 when you model Chessie System LONG LIVE THE KITTEN!!! LONG LIVE BIG BLUE!!!
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Chessie_SD50_8563: Conrail owned the most right? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I am not sure I can answer that on this forum According to one of my books, Conrail only purchased 100, and all 100 were still on the roster as of the mid 90's. I think the Union Pacific had a fleet of well over 150; many may have come via way of Missouri Pacific. We may have to check one of the other forums for such "foreign power" information Chessie
