Oct 23, 2020 · CR-stenciled EL GP7 (nee-EL/Erie 1215) and xEL 5992 NW2 are idling in Buffalo. Note the numbering style used on these locomotives. It appears this style was only applied to the EL units.

Other locos with this serial: PRR 8551(GP7) CR 5952(GP7) Page Controls : View: Pics Per Page: Title: CR GP7 5952 : Description: Ex PRR 8551 : Photo Date: 5/22/1983 Upload Date: 12/31/2009 10:52:07 AM : Location: Cleveland, OH : Author: Alan Gaines: Categories: Locomotives: CR 5952(GP7) Views: 364 ...

Sold to PS, to CHR.

Conrail inherited EMD GP7's from the Penn Central (252), Reading Company (17), Erie Lackawanna (71), and the Jersey Central (13). CR placed the units in series 5600-5999. Built between October 1949 and May 1954, EMD powered it's first hood unit with their 16-cylinder supercharged 567B prime mover.

Erie Lackawanna Photographic Roster, Locomotive Model: GP7. Unit # Notes Model Serial # Pictures : EL 1200: blt 8/50 as ERIE 1200, CR 5459

Conrail's fleet of nearly 400 GP7's came from Central Railroad of New Jersey, Erie Lackawanna, Penn Central, and Reading Company. They were series CR 5600-5999. In 1976, Conrail began rebuilding GP7's into GP8's, assigning them to the 5400-5462 series. Some units were initially numbered 5720-5728 but in 1978 were renumbered to 5400-5408.

CR 6019 is lead by a pair of Conrail units and a UP GP35 in December of 1992 Charlie Murphy's Conrail Memories Conrail In and Around Harrisburg EMD GP7 and GP9 Foreign Power on Conrail GE C39-8 CR 7506 and 7571, along with some other local power, rests in Spring Street Yard in Reading PA in July 1984

A classic ex NYC GP7, high bell, no dynamics, clean lines. I found this patched Penn Central unit on the west side of the P1A at Collinwood in 1979.

Conrail rebuilt some of its older GP units and kept them in local service for several more years. It was a cheap way to get some serviceable power in the early days. Heres one of them working a cut of trailer flats at North Bergen.

The first GP7/GP9 units for Chicago & North Western Railway came in August and September 1950 as three ex-General Motors' Electro Motive Division GP7 demonstrators. GM-EMD had built the three units in October and November 1949, and January 1950, to show off its …