Not to knock on the WM too much, I always thought they were a neat road, but these have to be one of the ugliest chop jobs for a high nose Geep. It looks like something done on a weekend with a farm welder, a chunk of sheet metal, and couple of windows out of the neighbor's trailer. Altogether a bit low rent.
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Pete you took the words right out of my mouth. I'd even go as far as to call this a hack job!
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Think that's bad? Look under the front coupler..there is a "rock pusher" off a steam locomotive under there! I'm biased, though, I like her looks. And this is the rare "split window" model!
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Beautiful colour of GP9 & posing the loco as well
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Please see photo #172199, L & N #511 is also a GP-9 chopped in South Louisville Shops. Note the number boards and Mars light assembly on the front wall of the cab, probably taken from a GE unit but looks better than GCR 25 in my humble opinion.
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Nice job by the shop crew. Yes, there are a few rough spots on the locomotive, but the WM never did any work with the intent of entering it in a beauty contest. One thing I would comment on, the "Rock Pilot". WM started the use of what was referred to then as "Flanger Pilots" back when my great grandfather was working on the road. When steam transititioned to diesel the pilot design remained. Much of the WM power also had foot boards along with the flanger blades.
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