INRD 1701         
Date: 8/30/2008 Location: Paducah, KY   Map Show Paducah on a rail map Views: 992 Collection Of:   www. locoslides.com
Locomotives: INRD 1701(GP16)    Author:  Joe Ferguson
INRD 1701
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David Stewart General Great shot! It sure looks good! Great catch also. Nice to see they are keeping some older units. 8/31/2008 7:28:56 PM
William H. Davis Jr. General Excellent shot 8/31/2008 7:37:41 PM
Jeff Carlson General I just read about these in Trains. Thanks for the shot 9/1/2008 1:04:45 PM
Jim Bruce General unit is a GP11. 10/4/2008 1:15:06 PM
William Grimes General I don't know why Jim keeps thinkin' this is a GP11, I know this GP16 looks similar but I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is how you can tell a difference between the IGC GP11 and the CRR GP16 (which this is); the evidence in is the short hood. On CRR's GP16 the whole cab is moved forward a few feet giving it a "short snoot" type nose. If my description is confusing just look at the two closely for a while. 10/19/2008 9:17:22 PM
j johnson General jims right. we built this in late 70s early 80s. at, paducah it left out as an 11. it may have been reclassed as something else when it went somewhere else. we did a bunch of rebuilds for other railroads. plus snoots are long noses. 11/2/2008 2:49:47 AM
Jim Bruce General Unit IS a GP11.This Clinchfield GP11 rebuild was one outsourced to the ICG/PNC shop at Paducah, KY and is an Illinois Central Gulf Paducah Shops rebuild. ICG designated these as GP11 locomotives. ICG Paducah-rebuilt GP11 locomotives were numbered in the 8700-series. Clinchfield Railroad also had 6 of these GP11 locomotives. These were also built by ICG-Paducah, and are betrayed by the shortened nose (to accomodate a new electrical cabinet behind the cab,) spartan cab and the primary air filtration system, which is mounted atop the hood behind the forward radiator section. The GP16 is a product of Seaboard System and Family Lines' own Geep rebuild progam, with units dubbed Uceta Geeps, because of the shop that did the work, followed, and these encompassed core units from most of the Family Lines component roads. 11/24/2008 12:52:53 PM

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