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Diesel Domination - the 1950's-'60's
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the GP7 |
MODEL | BUILDER | FIRST DELIVERY | FINAL DELIVERY | TOTAL |
GP7 | EMD | 3/50 (T&P
#1110) 7/50 (MP #4142) |
5/54 | 242 units |
Missouri Pacific 146 - a General Purpose GP7 - © Brian Paul Ehni photo, used with permission. |
MP 132 - the GP7 is on the Texas Eagle at San Antonio, Texas, September, 1968. - photo © 1968, 2000 by Jerry Appleman-Jerry's Railroad PhotoAlbum. |
MP 160 - a GP 7, a first-generation diesel EMD-built locomotive, rated at 1,500 hp - © Brian Paul Ehni photo, used with permission. |
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MP 192 - seen near snowy Ralston, Nebraska with a string of Frisco coal hoppers. - William W. Kratville photo (used by permission)/T. Greuter collection. |
MP GP7 #205 - was built in 1952 as St Louis, Brownsville & Mexico #4206. It later became MP #205, and its final number was MP 1648. The unit was retired in 1980. - Photographer and Location unknown/Jay Glenewinkel Collection |
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Diesel Details |
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Diesel Details Changes made by MP to the GP7's from after delivery added-up over the years of their lifetime. Modifications included everything from the skirting being removed, "torpedo tubes" (roof-mounted air tanks) and steam generators being installed, number changes (four digit to three, then back to four), and wearing three different paint-schemes. Some units had thier noses 'chopped'. There's also the trademark Mopac spark arresters that were applied to all of their Geeps. |
MP 230 - a GP7 with a disappearing breed - a WWII era caboose. The geep is wearing the all blue Jenk's scheme and a good amount of road grime. May 1968 - Lee Berglund photo/T. Greuter collection · |
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MP 304 - the chop-nosed Geep speeds through Louisville, Nebraska in 1975. - William Kratville photo (used by permission)/T. Greuter collection. |
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Missouri Pacific GP-7 #322 - with express/baggage on passenger train. Note the 'torpedo tubes' - photog, date, location unknown/Gary Morris Collection |
MP 326 - This south bound "Texas Eagle" is approaching Laredo, Texas. After the Laredo passengers unload, the thru cars for the "Aztec Eagle" to Mexico City, will be moved to the middle of the International bridge by a Texas Mexican GP9, where a N de M unit will take over; May 28, 1966 - F. Hol Wagner, Jr. photo, from a postcard/T. Greuter collection |
MP 1602 - a GP7 from the tail end (looks pretty much like the front). - © Brian Paul Ehni photo, used with permission. |
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"I am here to save the day" If anyone has information on this particular locomotive (road number?) please drop me a line. |
MP 1768 - a GP 7 - © Brian Paul Ehni photo, used with permission. |
MP GP7 #1771 - in 1976 at a small yard in Odessa, Texas, 8-year old Alyn got to live every boy's dream and climb behind the controls of a MoPac locomotive. "I was only 8 but stillĘgot to lay hands on the throttle. I am the the little guy 2nd from the left." Alyn also adds that "She was quite well used at that point in her life." - Alyn Merrill Photo |
MP 1776 - a 'chop-nosed' GP7u sublettered for the C&EI got special treatment. GP18u 1976 (see below) and #1776 (renumbered to pair-up with MP 1976, the original #1776 was deemed unfit for the publicity job) were taken into the paint shop and tranformed into Bicentennial engines. Proclaiming "Happy Birthday America" across the sides they wore a unique scheme of an American flag, stars, eagle (turbo style) all in red, white and blue, commemorating America's 1976 Bicentennial. - Photographer and location unknown/T. Greuter collection · See Bicentennial Units for more. |
MP 1783 - a GP 7 built in 1955. The Geep is wearing its 3rd and final number and paint-scheme. The GP 7's, the mainstay on any given MP branchline, first entered MoPac rails in 1950 and stayed there for 30 years. - © Brian Paul Ehni photo, used with permission. |
MP 1799 - Jay Glenewinkel Collection |
MP 4139 - seen in Eagle paint from the long-hood end. At Springfield, Missouri on September 11, 1955 - Arthur B. Johnson Photo, T. Greuter Collection |
MP 4140 - at Springfield, Missouri on March 13, 1955. - Arthur B. Johnson Photo, T. Greuter Collection |
MP GP7 #4184 - at Springfield, Missouri on August 13, 1961. - Arthur B. Johnson Photo, T. Greuter Collection |
MP 4217 - also in Eagle colors at Springfield, Missouri on May 28, 1961 - Arthur B. Johnson Photo, T. Greuter Collection |
Diesel Details Outwardly they looked like any regular Geep with the exception that the crew-cabs were modified with an extra set of number board cut-outs/windows that were exactly the same size as the number boards located just below the usual number boards on the short hood/nose. Behind the windows inside the cab sat a spare seat... right beside the typical toilet placement most likely. Makes you kinda think, don't it? ;) Ed Hawkins, who has researched the subject for an article in the MPHS's Eagle newsletter, adds that the "crew-cab" GP7s used by I-GN and STLB&M (series 4116-4123) were equipped with crew-cabs (modified circa 1953): 4117, 4119, 4120, 4122, and 4123. Since no other unit's received the crew cab, it's speculated that this modification may have been a "Texas thing" for the brakeman to ride inside the unit. |
MP 4232 - at Springfield, Missouri on January 2, 1955. - Arthur B. Johnson Photo, T. Greuter Collection |
MP 4274 - at Springfield, Missouri on January 2, 1955. - Arthur B. Johnson Photo, T. Greuter Collection |
MP 4324 - at Mission, Texas on October 7, 1954. - Arthur B. Johnson Photo, T. Greuter Collection |
Diesel Details |
the GP7 - MoPac subsidiary Texas & Pacific |
T&P 118 - the TEXAS & PACIFIC RR GP7 in the colorful road's pleasing orange and black paint. Originally delivered in April 1951 as T&P 1118, she will go on to be renumbered as MP 1627 and finally to MP 627. - Photo/The Bill Folsom Collection (to purchase full-size photos contact Bill at: billfolsom@bellsouth.net ) |
the GP7 - MoPac subsidiary Muskogee Lines |
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the GP7 - MoPac subsidiary Chicago & Eastern Illinois |
Chicago & Eastern Illinois GP7 #209 - on a freight at Chicago, Illinois, October, 1966. Though the C&EI black and white proclaims the road as a seperate entity here, it won't be long before the MoPac subsidiary will see her units being integrated into the MP roster. #209 will become C&EI #74 on the expanded roster before being sold by MoPac to L&N as thier #393. - photo © 1966, 1996 by Jerry Appleman. |
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C&EI GP7 #226 - is in original C&EI paint but notice the C&EI buzzsaw applied to the cab. The C&EI had their own version of the buzzsaw logo while the company retained its own identity early into its merger with MoPac. The unit, still in it's original number, will be renumbered into the MP system as C&EI #91, but will not last long enough to see C&EI fully merged; April 1967. - George Elwood photo |
In January 1951, the ALCo-built RS 2 and RS 3 arrive on the system. In November 1951, the Baldwin-built AS-16, at 1600 hp began arriving on the line. |
From the first Eagle E-3 Streamliner in 1949 until the early 1960's, you could see PA's, F7's and FA's, RS3's and Geeps in MP's classic blue and gray paint scheme. Meanwhile, the diesel switchers were painted black with brushed aluminum lettering - just like the steam switchers they'd replaced. They wore this scheme from their introduction in 1939 until 1961, when all switchers, freight and passenger units began the conversion to the solid Jenk's Blue. Joining the roster in the mid 1950's, the MoP's GP7's carried on the classic colors of the F's of blue and gray. At the same time the Texas & Pacific Geeps (unlike the T&P's passenger units) had their own scheme of orange scotchlite end striping which also lasted into the 1960's on a few locos. |
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