The real SF GP-50 8759, anyone have a picture?

berraf

Member
I recently bought a Bachmann GP-50 with roadnumber 8759 from Santa Fe and I've searched the Internet after a picture of the real thing but without any success.
Is there anyone on this forum that have a picture of this locomotive I could "borrow" to my website?

Here's a picture of my n-scale loco:
EMD_GP50-8759-1.jpg
 

berraf

Member
What do you call a GP-50 with the high hood?
Am I right in my opinion that high hood GP-50's was quite rare?
 

Triplex

Active Member
Highnose engines don't have separate model designations. Only Southern (later NS) had highnose GP50s. These are currently being rebuilt to GP38-3s with chopnoses.

Santa Fe GP50s were also blue/yellow, not silver/red.
 

berraf

Member
Highnose engines don't have separate model designations. Only Southern (later NS) had highnose GP50s. These are currently being rebuilt to GP38-3s with chopnoses.

Santa Fe GP50s were also blue/yellow, not silver/red.
Do you mean that this loco didn't ever exist in true life?
anyway, it's good to have an answer to the question and I'm grateful to you for yours :wave:
 

Triplex

Active Member
That's the short of it. Lower-end models (and the Bachmann standard GP50 is one) tend to come in schemes they never appeared in.
 
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