EMD GP10

EMD/Illinois Central GP10
Type and origin Power type Diesel-electric Builder General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) Build date 1967–1979 Rebuilder General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD);Illinois Central Railroad's Paducah, Kentucky shops
Specifications Configuration: ​ •AAR B-B Gauge 4 ft8+1⁄2in(1,435 mm) Prime mover EMD16-567C Train brakes Air, schedule 26-L
Performance figures Power output 1,750 or 1,850 hp (1.30 or 1.38 MW)

TheEMD GP10is adiesel-electric locomotivethat is the result of rebuilding aGP7,GP9orGP18.

TheIllinois Central Railroadhad three separate rebuild programs to upgrade their old EMD GPs and GPs that they had purchased from equipment dealers such as Precision National Corporation in Mount Vernon, Illinois. The first was theGP8,second the GP10 and third theGP11.All were rebuilt at IC/ICG's Paducah Shops in Kentucky.

Core units for the GP10 program were from IC/ICG GP7, GP8, GP9 and GP18,B&MGP9,B&OGP9,CRRGP9,C&OGP7 and GP9,D&RGWGP9,DT&IGP7 and GP9,FECGP9,GTWGP18,P&LEGP7,Potlach Forests Inc.GP7,QNS&LGP9,RDGGP7,St.J&LCGP9,SLSFGP7,SPGP9,SSWGP7, andUPGP9B.

Two IC GP9s were rebuilt to GP10s and sold directly to theAshley, Drew and Northern Railway.NineAlaska RailroadGP7s were rebuilt to GP10s by Paducah, and renumbered 1801-1809 (these rebuilds received EMD angled cabs but kept their AAR Type B road trucks from Alco RS-1s).

A total of 76ConrailGP9s were rebuilt to GP10s. The Paducah Shops rebuilt 53 Conrail GP9s to GP10s. The first 16 Conrail GP9s were rebuilt to the equivalent of a GP10 in 1976. In 1978 another 21 Conrail GP9s were rebuilt at Paducah, followed by 16 more GP9s rebuilt to GP10 in 1979. The 1978–79 Conrail GP9 rebuilding program by Paducah was engine and electrical gear only with no carbody modification (the high short hoods were kept). The Precision National Corporation Shops at Mount Vernon, Illinois rebuilt six Conrail GP9s to GP10s in 1978. The Morrison-Knudsen Boise Shops rebuilt 17 Conrail GP9s to GP10s in 1978–1979. Six units were rebuilt by Boise in 1978, with an additional 11 units completed in 1979. The GP9 rebuilding program by Boise was engine and electrical gear only with no carbody modification.

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  A pair of ex-IC GP10 on Carlton Trail Railway.
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  Two ex-Conrail high short hood GP9 on theAllegheny Valley Railroad.
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  Three ex-IC GP10 (two of them still in the IC livery), sold to theChicago Central and Pacific Railroad.
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  Ex-Illinois Central GP10 #8330 at theFlorida Railroad Museum

See also

• List of GM-EMD locomotives
• Data from Extra 2200 South Issue #93 pages 18–36.
• Diesel data from Diesel Era March April 2003.

External links

• RailPictures.Net– GP10 Photographs