Always loved that mellow, yet reassuring, sound made by the 567 prime mover. Reminds me of watching Southern Pacific GP9s working local runs in Southern California.
@@Joe-d7m6k I lived in Saginaw but spent a lot of time at my grandmothers house on Killarney Beach in Bay City. The D&M tracks ran right behind her house on Tobico marsh.
EMD also made the GP18 & GP20 which were successors to the GP9 and had the same basic cab and hood style. The 1800HP GP18 was sold from 1959 to 1964 but only sold 405 units, and the turbocharged 2000HP GP20 from 1959 to 1962, selling 260 units. The turbocharged 2250HP GP30 was the first attempt at a new look (using automotive styling!) and sold 948 units from 1961 to 1963. In 1963, EMD started production of the new "spartan cab" (angular roofs instead of rounded roofs) models GP28 (non-turbocharged) and GP35 (turbocharged), the last models produced reaching upper limits of the 567 design capabilities. In late 1965, EMD introduced the 645 engine in both turbocharged and non-turbocharged models in the 3000HP GP40 and 2000HP GP38 (and the six-axle SD lines as well.)
thanks for a intresting facts about the gp series locos. in sweden we got older type of diesel main line and shunterlocos. they are rebuilds.whith new prime mower and gens. keep up the good work. 👍👍👍👍👍🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
Love the Belt Railway of Chicago GP 9 at 1:50 with the super-rare friction bearing Blomberg trucks. BRC was supposedly very frugal with its early diesels and options so the company probably got five or ten bucks knocked off the price by going with those trucks, lol.
There is a very interesting and long out of print book called One Man's Locomotives. It is the autobiography of Vernon L. Smith, the Chief of Motive Power for the BRC during the transition from steam to diesel. He was a steam guy who wroked at Lima, worked at the PRR during the development of the T1, and spent some time on the ATSF too. He was apparently very old school and slow to move on to newer developments in locomotive engineering. BRC's diesels originally had tires on their wheels like steam locomotives.
@@suppylarue220 The federal government is not and EMD has at least 1 demo GP23ECO built from a GP9. 645 can meet EPA T2 without DEF and likely T3 with def while 710 can reach T3 without DEF and T4 with
EMT had the backing of General Motors, General Electric was a large company, BOCES big companies could finance a railroads purchase of their diesel locomotives. Baldwin, Fairbanks Morse, Alco could not. With the railroads losing Freight to the trucks and the interstate and losing passengers to the airlines the market for brand new locomotives was shrinking. A hostile Workforce also does not help either. Both major locomotive companies introduced High horsepower locomotives intended to reduce the number of diesel locomotives needed to power train. In the end run though EMT unit reduced itself out of business. Many railroads also instituted rebuilding and upgrading of diesel locomotive instead of trading them in and buying new ones. With Alco locomotives they had all of their eggs in one basket as the saying goes.
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Let's not forget New Haven was in receivership. It had to follow the orders of the bankruptcy court. Many of alco's customers were on the verge of bankruptcy. There is also a policy of standardization of diesel locomotives in regards to parts and service. Locomotives from Minority Builders suffered from poor maintenance and we're traded in instead of rebuilding. You can't sell locomotives two companies that have no money. Unless I get government financing like the Penn Central had. They bought thousands of locomotives and new Freight cars while their track was in horrible shape and loaded with slow orders. These purchases added to this bankruptcy woes
Love the old locomotives! Can't stand the newer ones at all in fact i won't even watch the videos when i see those ugly new locomotives! I grew up in Metairie Louisiana! My parents backyard faced Airline hwy where the Kansas city Southern trains ran for many years! I'm 59 years old so i got to see the GP's and U boats and even some of the F units. But when Clearview parkway was extended to reach the Huey P Long bridge it seems that the 18 wheelers couldn't figure out how to stay off the tracks at the red light at Airline hwy so after multiple accidents with trains smashing the big trucks usually once to twice a week the Jefferson Parish Council decided to punish the railroad and make them move the tracks! They ended up moving the Kansas city lines to the Central ave lines where they still are now! Plus it's still the only area where the trains can cross the Mississippi River in Southeast Louisiana! The entrance to the Huey P Long bridge is in the Central Ave rail yard which is located in the back of my Parents neighborhood! My parents neighborhood was sandwiched between the sets of tracks! Great place to grow up especially if you loved watching trains!
