Any body seen any GP60's?

[GreatLakesRailfan]

i herd teh csx waz rebilding teh gp60's into teh gp65-3E for teh innermodal serv is form clavelend oiho to chogica illllllllllllllllnoi

Pictures or it didn't happen.

[Mr. Tops]

i seen ns gp60b rebilt wit cab in it ns 5185 gp60b rblt.

Martin by IllinoisRailfan, on Flickr

[Standard Railfan]

i seen ns gp60b rebilt wit cab in it ns 5185 gp60b rblt.

Martin by IllinoisRailfan, on Flickr

Nice shot. Might be a hole in one.

[ns8401]

Only 1 has been rebuilt, the 170 using a former UP SD40-2 Cab, it looks.... Weird.

....it looks like every other GP60 now.

Don't take me to literally now tops This is what it looked like prior to repainting for what it's worth... I hadn't seen it in so long I thought the cab was from a snoot UP unit but I realized that wouldn't really work.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=2172357

[mustangjoe448]

Go to jackson mi they have been using 2 or three of them always is one in the yard

[railohio]

UP usually runs the Troy Grove branch local with a pair of GP15s flanking a GP60.

[Saturnalia]

I can't remember what kind of train it was without looking (seeing 40 trains in one day does that to ya), but I saw 2 GP60s back to back leading a NS train yesterday in Chesterton. It was kinda neat to see them as the only power. I believe that was the only NS train I saw yesterday that was just EMD powered.

[SD80MAC]

IIRC you saw 60T, that train usually has GP60s for power.

[Y@]

IIRC you saw 60T, that train usually has GP60s for power.

Uh, no... 60T usually has a pair of six axles. Last week it had the Illinois Terminal and Conrail heritage units. Yesterday it had a pair of Dash-9's. I could go on.

The trains you're thinking of are the pig iron trains that come from and go to NorthStar Steel in Delta. I'm forgetting the symbol off the top of my head though. 60T is a coil train that runs to Mingo Junction.

[SD80MAC]

IIRC you saw 60T, that train usually has GP60s for power.

Uh, no... 60T usually has a pair of six axles. Last week it had the Illinois Terminal and Conrail heritage units. Yesterday it had a pair of Dash-9's. I could go on.

The trains you're thinking of are the pig iron trains that come from and go to NorthStar Steel in Delta. I'm forgetting the symbol off the top of my head though. 60T is a coil train that runs to Mingo Junction.

Maybe its 61T or 62T then.

[Y@]

No, 66A and 67A now that I checked.

[Saturnalia]

The pair of GP60s was leading a Westbound Manifest, their numbers were: 7134 & 7145

[GP30M4216]

It's strange to see a pair of Warbonnet GP60M's being used for local switching service (as I saw in Orange County, CA in 2010). They're cool to see, but I'd still rather see a pair of blue and yellow GP30s! I have photos from 2010 of those GP60Ms doing their switching thing. I'll have to see if I can dig a few up.

I also saw CSXT 6899 in Grand Rapids in 2008, too. Quite a surprise! I'll have to dig those photos out, too.


In the meantime, HERE was an extremely rare sighting of a Santa Fe GP60M leading a southbound CSX train at Wayne Jct., Michigan in 2006.

[Mr. Tops]

...I mean, GP60's really aren't that rare on NS. They have 48 of them and they are not that uncommon leading locals, short-run manifests, grain shuttles, pig iron, etc. Let's talk about something that is more rare...SD50s, GP50s, PR43Cs, B32-8s...

The CSX GP60s are rare as there are only 3 of them and they are ex-demo units with the rounded cab edges.

[conrail767596]

My body saw a good dozen ATSF and BNSF GP60Ms in the LA Basin last week. One local had a pair of warbonnets and a Santa Fe caboose. And there are usually some at NS's Jackson Yard.

[tadman]

I spend a fair amount of time in NW Indiana at SW Michigan, and the NS GP60's aren't that rare. You see them on MC locals up Amtrak trackage rights to Niles, and also the South Bend local that shuttles off to Elkhart most evenings. I'd say they're the second most common power after the hi-hood geeps.

What's odd is that you don't usually see such in the 130th street Ford Plant yard in Chicago, where you see just about anything (try MRL SD40 once) banging around auto racks.