I went to the Spring Creek show in Deshler, NE (since I’m in Wichita anyway right now). Talked to Doug Brush briefly.

Big news is that I got a good look at Intermountain’s new “Paducah” geep, also known as the GP10. Background on the prototype is that IC(G) was rebuilding their own geeps at their Paducah shop, in a time frame that followed the MoPac rebuild of old geeps, and eventually the locomotive shop started doing similar rebuilds for outside customers, and it turned into a pretty substantial business for a number of years.

I’m not focusing exactly on the history, but on the fact that those Paducah rebuilds looked an awful lot like the rebuilds that were done by MoPac, and I have an idea. It seems to me that this particular model has a lot of potential to be the basis for a model of the MoPac rebuilds. The model has four stacks already, although it does have a freaky air filter that looks vaguely like the Horst air filter that some of the MP units had, including GP18s. The top of the nose is very close to flat, and I believe the MP units did have a slant similar to new EMD units at the time. Otherwise, this looks pretty promising.

Comments welcomed.

Ron Merrick