Reply To: Building a Mopac low nose GP-7

[peggyrothschild]

@Dan Schmidt wrote:

Charlie,
that almost looks like they used a standard Geep nose end to repair a damaged nose.
The sides of the short hood look just like the kits EMD provided, and you can tell where the welding work was done.

I have two of the original run P2K GP18s in MoPac, and my plan is to rework the details on them, and then repaint and number them as 1954 and 1956, my sweetie-pie’s & my own birth years, respectively. :~)

Dan Schmidt

Dan
I called John B. Harper this afternoon. John worked in the Mopac’s Mechanical Department while these conversions were going on. They were all done at NLRK diesel shops and while some were EMD kits John said most were cut down high hoods done by the Mopac. He remembered the first modifications were the high hoods GP-18’s later followed by the passenger GP7’s.