GP7B in NKP

[brubakes]

Anyone know if somone makes a GP7B painted for NKP? I've seen a few NKP Proto 2000s on EBay, but never a GP7B anywhere.

 

[UP2CSX]

Unless someone is making a fantasy paint scheme, you'll never see one. The NKP never had any GP7-B's. Where did you come up with the idea of an NKP GP7-B?

 

[brubakes]

Unless someone is making a fantasy paint scheme, you'll never see one. The NKP never had any GP7-B's. Where did you come up with the idea of an NKP GP7-B?

I just know there was a GP7 in the NKP scheme. Just hoping there was a GP7B out there. I don't stick to a road with dead on accuracy. I use it as a guide for running what I like.

 

[UP2CSX]

Well, a GP7-B would really be stretching it for the NKP. There were only 5 GP7-B's made, all for the AT&SF. I'm not a big rivet counter but a GP7-B in NKP colors would stand out like a sore thumb to anyone who knew much about that railroad.

 

[macjet]

I just know there was a GP7 in the NKP scheme. Just hoping there was a GP7B out there. I don't stick to a road with dead on accuracy. I use it as a guide for running what I like.

Amen! Paint away. It is YOUR railroad.

Let us see the finished product.

 

[UP2CSX]

That wasn't the question. It was if there was a GP7-B already painted in NKP livery. My answer was there wasn't because there never were any. If the OP wishes to first make an GP7-B (since there aren't any of those around in plastic that I know of) and then paint it for the NKP, more power to him. My comment is that it will stick out like a sore thumb if he shows it off to another NKP fan. If that's not an issue, kitbash and paint away.

 

[macjet]

No worries UP2CSX! I hope you didn't take my post the wrong way. You have always been a great source of RR information. You are an asset to this board.

I was just egging on a fellow modern day/fantasy railroader. I still want to see the finished paint job!

 

[UP2CSX]

No offense taken, Mac. I guess my take on this is the folks who are painting fallen flags with modern equipment are really using their imagination to come up with a new or revised paint scheme on equipment that didn't exist when the prototype was still running. That's a pretty interesting exercise in fantasy as a what if. Taking a unit that existed ten years before the railroad merged and the railroad never owned can be interesting also. For example, the NKP never owned an F unit and I've been thinking of designing a paint scheme for what an F unit might have looked like. An NKP GP-7B is going to have exactly the same paint scheme as a GP-7 with stripes going across the area with no cab. It doesn't take much imagination and that's what I like to see in fallen flags new era paint shemes. See the difference?

 

[HaggisKennedy]

I think Hi-Tech Industries makes a GP7B conversion kit. It's meant to convert them to the UP versions, but I suppose you could do your own NKP version using that kit. Basically replaces the cab part.

Kennedy

 

[River Run]

For example, the NKP never owned an F unit and I've been thinking of designing a paint scheme for what an F unit might have looked like.

EMD painted their demonstrators tested on the Nickel Plate in a NKP Scheme, these units were painted blue and white (silver) simular to the NKP PAs. Photos can be found on-line. The demonstrators ended up as Great Northern units.

 

[CanuckMark]

This isn't a GP7, but still a cool web page for NKP fans: NKP190.

Mark

 

[UP2CSX]

Yeah, I've looked at those but they are what EMD thought the NKP might paint an F unit. I'm thinking of more of the Bluebird scheme with less of a sharp point on the nose and more blue. I'd like to use the NFP Dulux gold on the side panels instead of the blue used by the PA's. Also, it's my understanding that NKP was exculsively a Gyralite customer and never used Mars lights. Do you know if that's true?

 

[River Run]

Yeah, I've looked at those but they are what EMD thought the NKP might paint an F unit. I'm thinking of more of the Bluebird scheme with less of a sharp point on the nose and more blue. I'd like to use the NFP Dulux gold on the side panels instead of the blue used by the PA's. Also, it's my understanding that NKP was exculsively a Gyralite customer and never used Mars lights. Do you know if that's true?

Always used Mars Lights, as did the Bessemer & Lake Erie here in Conneaut. By the way, I know Doyle McCormack (originally from Conneaut) who is building the NKP 190, and he also owns a Great Northern F Unit. In discussions with him in the past he toyed with painting his F Unit in the old Demonstrator Scheme. As an amusing side note, I painted a Bachmann GS4 4-8-4 in the Bluebird sheme for Doyle.