Nostalgia & History > An "imposter" engine with different number boards

Anyone have an explanation why this locomotive on display at Downs, Kan., has different number boards on the front?

This EMD GP-7 engine is on display just east of the former Missouri Pacific Railroad depot in Downs. But I'm told it is a MoPac "imposter." It was formerly in a New York Central color scheme before being acquired and repainted for permanent public display. 

I grew up around the MoPac in the 1950s and road switchers like this were most common in Kansas. 

(Photos by Larry Byers, 7-16-16) 

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Maybe somebody can't count.

Also, it is a GP7,,,,,,,NOT a "GP-7".

Maybe they ran out of "4's".

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Regardless, they have done a very nice job with the painting,

Well we didn't get to see the number on the fireman's side of the cab.  Maybe it is 4125 too!

No, it's 4124, looking at it on Google steetview.  I can't see the conductor side rear board but the other one also says 4124.

pmack Wrote:
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> No, it's 4124, looking at it on Google steetview.
>  I can't see the conductor side rear board but
> the other one also says 4124.

In that engine's era, it was called fireman's side.

TAW

TAW Wrote:

> In that engine's era, it was called fireman's
> side.

It is still called "fireman's side" by us old f__ts.

Mark

I would have taken a few more pictures last Saturday evening but my memory card filled up and I didn't have a spare.  I'll learn to check more closely in the future, especially when I'm traveling a long distance. I sure had a flashback to the days when I wished I had one more spare roll of film. 

Should have had superintendant Kenobi urging them to "use the fours."

Looks like that fireman's/conductor's/left front/right rear/always wrong in someone's book number board used to display 4124 like the rest of them:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1249220

Maybe the same guy who unscrewed the bell from that Wabco E-2 horn on the engineer's side also filtched the 4.

HotWater Wrote:

> Also, it is a GP7,,,,,,,NOT a "GP-7".

Not saying they were "right," but the ad department didn't always agree:

https://waidephoto.smugmug.com/Trains/Vintage-Railroad/i-S56xCnk/A

Ahh ! Finally an expert on TO who apparently wasn't. Maybe it should be G-P7 ?

462pacific Wrote:
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> Ahh ! Finally an expert on TO who apparently
> wasn't. Maybe it should be G-P7 ?

Nope. The EMD/GM advertising agency was generally "out of touch" with the technical stuff.

At any rate, it is a beautiful restoration job.  Long time ago there was a fireman who made sure the numbers were correct.
Brian Stevens

JoCoLB Wrote:
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> I would have taken a few more pictures last
> Saturday evening but my memory card filled up and
> I didn't have a spare.  I'll learn to check more
> closely in the future, especially when I'm
> traveling a long distance. I sure had a flashback
> to the days when I wished I had one more spare
> roll of film. 

Carry an extra memory card or two. They're not that expensive these days.

>Anyone have an explanation why this locomotive on display at Downs, Kan., has different number boards on the front? 

*$#@ taggers!

:-)

Joe Atkinson
Council Bluffs, IA
www.iaisrailfans.org/../Sub4WestEnd



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/16 05:52 by iaisfan.