05-08-2014, 07:05 PM
Mr Fixit Wrote:Hi nutbar, just some thoughts about your photos;
CN 1437 really looks funny like it was made of parts from someones scrap box. Whats its model designation?
IC 1037 I thought that a lot of the "Death Stars" bought it during the GFC sidelining?
CP 5927 also has a lousy paint job.
CN 4768 your right that is a very lousy paint job are they trying to save on paint stripper?
CN 2677 what's that white stuff on the roof around the exhaust stack?
Is the greater variation in weather temperature in Canada responsible for the greater wear on the paintwork of locos there?
Or is it from the use of de-icing solutions?
Mark
Hi Mark---thanks for responding.#1437 is a GMD1---here's some info. on this locomotive
The GMD GMD-1 is a diesel locomotive originally produced by General Motors Diesel (GMD), the Canadian subsidiary of General Motors Electro-Motive Division, between August 1958 and April 1960. This switcher locomotive was powered by a 12-cylinder EMD 567C diesel engine, capable of producing 1,200 horsepower. The GMD-1 was built on either Flexicoil A1A-A1A (for light rail prairie branchlines) or Flexicoil B-B trucks. 101 examples of this locomotive were built for Canadian railways. 96 went to Canadian National Railway and the remaining 5 went to Northern Alberta Railways (that later became part of CN's fleet when they acquired majority interest in NAR).
According to original blueprints of the locomotive from GMD, CN's own equipment diagram books, and the original GMD manual for this locomotive, it is consistently referred to as a GMD-1 rather than a GMD1. "GMD1" has been a common misnomer since the 1970s.
Contents [hide]
1 Original Owners
2 Rebuilds
3 Second Hand Users
4 References
5 See also
Original Owners[edit]
Road Quantity Road numbers Notes
Canadian National Railway
78
1000–1077 A1A-A1A trucks
Canadian National Railways
18
1900–1917 B-B trucks; fitted with steam generators
Northern Alberta Railways
5
300–305 A1A-A1A trucks (to CN 1078-1082)
Rebuilds[edit]
CN upgraded a number of their GMD-1's in the 1980s, as 1400-series units (B-B) and 1600-series (A-1-A). A number of 1600's were later retrucked with B-B's and renumbered as 1400's.
1100 series units are 1000's retrofitted with Flexicoil B-B trucks in place of their original A-1-A's.
Second Hand Users[edit]
A number of GMD-1 units have been sold off in the 1990s and 2000s to rebuilders, leasers, regional and shortline railways. A few were acquired by Ferrocarriles de Cuba. Oregon Pacific Railroad acquired Canadian National #1045, and is now numbered OPR #1413.[1]
Regarding the rough looking paint jobs,let's just attribute this to age and natural weathering giving the locomotives a typical Canadian look
I'm not sure but I think the 2677 may have suffered some fire damage resulting in the whitish/grey colour on the roof