Just what I've been waiting for, a GMD-1! Except it's due in 2013, I'd better start saving up now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7jnQU2zetI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7jnQU2zetI
I guess a GMD-1 is sort of a switcher and sort of a road engine. It was originally designed to run on the light rail of Canadian prarie branchlines. Only Canadian national and Northern Alberta railways bought them.
The GMD GMD1 was a diesel locomotive produced by General Motors Diesel (GMD), the Canadian subsidiary of General Motors Electro-Motive Division, between August 1958 and April 1960.
This switcher locomotive was powered by a 12-cylinder EMD 567C diesel engine, capable of producing 1,200 horsepower.
The GMD1 was built on either flexicoil A1A-A1A or flexicoil B-B trucks. 101 examples of this locomotive were built for Canadian railways. 96 went to Canadian National Railway and the remaining 5 went to Northern Alberta Railways
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A number of GMD-1 were sold in the 1990s, including a few were acquired by Ferrocarriles de Cuba.
Long live Rapido Trains !!!
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Looks like an SW1500 on steroids!!! I like them.
I'd much rather see the RS23 behind 1423 get put into production. I know a lot of people looking for those.
Man!, that is one ugly loco.
I have to say I was hoping the "New" unit was going to be an RS18/u. The GMD1 ranks up there with F units and SD70ACe's in terms of ugliness and uselessness in my modeling world.