Canadian invasion!

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Got my completely superfluous, but oh so cool GMD1 today. They are real, and they are marvelous! Quite a bit heavier than I thought it would be.

This one is staying as is. When they come out with the 4 axle version, I plan on making the Mass Central NW5 with it.

What a cool little engine!

Here is my fabricated story for using this as run-through power. CN borrowed an SD50 for a month to help them with a power shortage. As SD50's are prone to do, it broke down after two weeks and sat in the CN shops costing them time and money. When CN was to return power for a Conrail power shortage, the passive aggressive manager sent exactly half the power back to Conrail for a month.

[lock4244]

Not really a stretch, Daniel. CR SD50's were a dime a dozen on CN between Montreal and Toronto/Sarnia/Niagara Falls/Fort Erie in the late 90's... HPH payback for the SECN/CNSE trains using CN power. At one time or another, just about anything CR operated on the mainline showed up (incl at least one blue C32-8) other than the SD80's. CN also had 10-12 of the SD45-2's on lease in 1998... that was awesome 

[Scottl]

I saw a surprising amount of Conrail power on CN in Edmonton in the mid-1990s. 

[Jesse6669]

I remember seeing a GMD-1 in Cincinnati, OH (Sharonville Yard) about 10 years ago.. I think it had been sold and was en-route to new owners, or (hopefully not) to scrap.  But there it was!  I remember thinking ... what the ??! 

As an aside, the pics were lost to a hard-drive crash.. Let that be a lesson... get your "keepers" up on one of the websites i.e. rrpicturearchives, or at least a free OneDrive, or a Google drive account.  The only worse incident was losing about 10 rolls of exposed Kodachrome to a car break-in--including bulbed night shots of CP and CN Alcos in Windsor/Detroit, DT&I/Ann Arbor/GT at Lang Yard, tons of Rio Grande, Santa Fe, and UP stuff from WY in the 80's, helo shots taken in the Uinta Mts.  That still stings.

[tehachapifan]

Can you come up with a plausible scenario where one ended up in California in SP paint??

[Paradise275]

tehachapifan

Perhaps part of a Ringling Brothers circus train in the "believe it or not" category.

Rick

PS I see one all the time operating in the Burlington Aldershot yard. They use it on occasion as a helper up the Dundas Valley hill near Bayview Junction.

[nkalanaga]

Russ:  Not actually SP, but how about a private owner, painted in SP colors, but with the plant name on it?

[tehachapifan]

tehachapifan

Perhaps part of a Ringling Brothers circus train in the "believe it or not" category.

Rick

PS I see one all the time operating in the Burlington Aldershot yard. They use it on occasion as a helper up the Dundas Valley hill near Bayview Junction.

Ha!

Russ:  Not actually SP, but how about a private owner, painted in SP colors, but with the plant name on it?

Oooh...you may be onto something!

If I were to get one to paint into SP (or pseudo-SP), I will probably wait for the 4 axle Flexicoil truck version. That would really make it seem even more SP-esque.

....not to say that the Canadian schemes aren't nice and very tempting. I just saw the artwork for the MT SW1500 in CN colors posted somewhere, which looks really cool too!

[Ike the BN Freak]

This one is staying as is. When they come out with the 4 axle version, I plan on making the Mass Central NW5 with it.

Hmmm, interested in that one, can follow it to do a GN/BN one.