Conrail GP-10s.

Hi,CR buffs, Im wondering if any one can help me out here. Does any one know the curent where abouts of where the Conrail GP-10s have wound up? How many exist etc. Also were all of the GP-10s converted to "hump units" or just the 7582-7597 group? Thank to who ever can help Happy Holidays.

There are many still floating around. I can conform that the 7550 is in service in South Jersey on the SRNJ as #102.


Brian
www.srnjrr.com

Here's a link to an active GP10 operating on a former Reading line in PA:
http://charyna.homeunix.com/trains/Perk ... 41006.html

I also found a few more GP10s on the Ohio Central (OHCR):

OHCR 7547>CR 7547>CR GP9 7322>PC 7322>NYC 5922>built 1955
OHCR 7573>CR 7573>CR GP9 7239>PC 7239>PRR 7239>built 1959
OHCR 7574>CR 7574>CR GP9 7265>PC 7265>PRR 7265>built 1959
OHCR 7585>CR 7585>CR GP9 7244>PC 7244>PRR 7244>built 1959
OHCR 7591>CR 7591>CR GP9 7254>PC 7254>PRR 7254>built 1959
OHCR 7594>CR 7594>CR GP9 7258>PC 7258>PRR 7258>built 1959

Here's a pic of 7573 during it's CR days:
http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/gp10/cr7573e.jpg

The Raritan Central in NJ has two GP10's that I know of. They are the 7563(low hood) & 7579(high hood). I think that they have another one, but I am not sure.

GP10s 7534, 7535, 7568, and 7582 are at McDonald Ohio. GP10 7579 is on the Raritan Central Railroad, New York & Atlantic 201 is probably history and Winchester and Western 572 has new paint.
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WELCOME 2OO6

Thank You very kindly gentlemen. excellent pictures. However Im looking forthe following. 7577 7578 7580 7581 7584 and 7586 are these still around or have they been scrapped?

U-Haul wrote:GP10s 7534, 7535, 7568, and 7582 are at McDonald Ohio.

It looks like they've been gutted- are they parts units or are they being scrapped?

Those Geeps are probably going to be scrapped, but Larry's Truck & Electric is in no rush.

WELCOME 2OO6

The gp-10 from nya in gershow hasent been cut up yet. Also the raritan railway in nj has an ex. guliford gp10 also I do believe.

Did any of you ever hear a GP10 in use on CR?

Once in a very rare while they would run them on the Falls Road secondary in Lockport yard.

That high pitched whirrrr was like hearing the ice cream truck speeding down the street - you ran for the door and sprinted down to the tracks. One of my favorite sounds. First the engine, then the ice cream truck. HA!

(Yes in Lockport you gotta be fast to catch an ice cream truck. LOL.)

Dave

WANF-11--->Chaser wrote:Did any of you ever hear a GP10 in use on CR?

Once in a very rare while they would run them on the Falls Road secondary in Lockport yard.

They sometimes were assigned to the run from Lockport to Brockport. I recall that whine very well...

During the "power shortage" of 1988, 1989, I was fortunate enough (unfortunate?) to be called from the AFHT hotel in Philly, to relieve a coal train at CP Falls, to run to SK. (my regular turn was SEPY/PYSE). Much to my chagrin (delight?) was a coal train, waiting at River, with 5 GP-10 locos, fresh out of storage, and a GP-35. This accumulation of rolling derelicts never made it to transition speed, except for approaching the Junction, at Manville. Between alarm bells, extreme wheel slippage, and thick, voluminous clouds of blue smoke, infiltrating the cab (running hammerhead ) the trip was memorable as one of the worst road trains, I had ever run, up to that point in time. Those locos were later assigned to Harrisburg, where they were yard switchers, and I recall them running in Enola, as well. On several occasions, those GP-35's, and even GP-30's would appear on a train, when things got "tight". Never saw them again, after about 1992, although the Harrisburg ramp job occasionally had one, or two, in use, at that time. As things have ended up, I occasionally get blessed, with the opportunity, to run one of these "junkers", and the memories they bring up are still as bad as I remember.................

the Winchester & Western also has an Ex CONRAIL GP10 in operation as well.

I echo Golden Arm's recollection of Conrail using GP8's and GP10's for just about anything up to the late '80's.

The last times I saw them were:

A low hood 75xx leading a Suffern, NY to Oak Island extra c1991...

In regular yard/roadswitcher service on the former Harrisburg Division, including Reading, Lebanon, Hershey, and Harrisburg-Enola up to the mid '90's...