GEC's EOY 2010 Challenge

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Amazing work! Thanks for putting up all the photos, I enjoyed them. I'm always fascinated by kitbashing and detailing of locos.

Yeah, I hope I can make this one stand out. Its a unique engine (guarantees no doubles at the train club!), and I've been trying to get one running forever!

Not to mention the history is interesting. the unit I am modeling, New Jersey Transit #4141, started out as a Rock Island GP40 #4715, then Union Pacific 646. When they retired it, they sold it to Morrison Knudsen, and in 1987, it became NJ Transit 4141, with a former Burlington Northern F45 cowl on it. NJT 4141 is now one of the last 4 of these running in the US (a handful are loaned to AMT from NJ transit, along with some old former Arrow I (Comet IB) cars.

Photo-History

#4715 was new in 1970 on the Rock Island



#4715 is now UP 646, with only three years left of being an average GP40



Meanwhile, an F45 just like this one was also starting life in the early 1970s. this particular unit ended up donating it's cowl to New Jersey Transit #4135. I can't find which donated its cowl to NJT#4141.



In the end, you get this- brand new from Morrison Knudsen in 1987. It is in Illinois en route to New Jersey. Dynamic brakes and other equipment such as ditchlights would be added later.



For 24 years now, NJT 4141 has been running through out New Jersey, certainly a different view from its "home road" out west. It is one of the last 4 standing, one of which no longer has a working HEP generator. This is the 4141 today.



Most would never guess by looking at this unit that it was actually a veteran from the west at one time.