• GP35/38

  • Discussion related to the operations and equipment of Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail) from 1976 to its present operations as Conrail Shared Assets. Official web site can be found here: CONRAIL.COM.
Discussion related to the operations and equipment of Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail) from 1976 to its present operations as Conrail Shared Assets. Official web site can be found here: CONRAIL.COM.

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  by MR77100
 
Sometime in the mid-80's Conrail rebuilt a GP35 to GP38-2 specifications. The program was too expensive and was cancelled, but the unit soldiered on into the 90's. Whatever happened to this unit?

  by Justin B
 
The unit in question was CR2363 (ex PCC/PRR). Rebuilt in November 1984 as CR7635. Was in service until June of 1997, retired and sold to Quebec Gatineau RR as their #2006.

AFAIK it is still in service....

  by scottychaos
 
found some (old) photos of her:

http://www.morscher.com/rr/1990/19900203_01.jpg

http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/gp38/cr7635cf.jpg

http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/gp38/cr7635.jpg

and here is some info about the rebuild process:

http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/gp38/gp38proto.html



I found a Quebec Gatineau roster that says the unit was "leased to HCRY, 2003"
thats Huron Central..QG and HCRY are both Genesee & Wyoming family roads..

here is a current HC roster..
http://www.trainweb.org/rosters/HCRY.html

YES!
and some further googling turned her up!
here she is 5 months ago..

http://www.hellertrain.ch/images/172.jpg
http://www.hellertrain.ch/images/173.jpg

interesting..her "bug eyes" are gone..

Scot