I know very little about the New York Central but I came across this GP-9 in a siding at St. Paul, MN and a little research revealed that it is an ex-NYC unit and is now owned by the Gopher State Railway Museum http://www.gsrm.org/nav.html. Although I'm partial to Northern Pacific's Canoe Scheme, I think this locomotive would look mighty fine in Lightning Stripes. Andrew
Andrew, I don't know much about NYCS diseasels, but they did operate GP-9's with "torpedo tubes" as shown in your photo. Some had the tanks on top, some didn't. Don't know why. They were numbered in the 5900's and 6000's (sniff) numbers once held by proud Niagaras. :sad: That could be a NYCS engine, and lightning stripes would be a definite improvement over the tag job.
Hooray for the Central, but I'm more interested in the identity and heritage of the fluted side shiny stainless car behind the Yellow Thingie....!
"Torpedo Tube" GP-9s These GP-9s were for passenger train service. IIRC, they had water tanks for the steam generators down below. That meant the air tanks had to go someplace, so up on top they went.
The SP GP-9s assigned to commuter service in the San Francisco area also had torpedo tubes. Was that for the same reason?
Hi Mike, welcome back! I love it when we have a thread going here. I didn't know those facts. Hank, I would then wager a guess that the SP units had the same situation, again with no personal knowledge to back this up. :teeth:
The NP had a bunch of torpedo tube geeps but only a couple had steam generators for passenger service. The rest just had extra fuel capacity so the air tanks went up top. Andrew
