BLW/ZT geep pack: passenger or freight?

uli · Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 116 Location: Berlin, Germany

Hello Rick or Gaetan,

can you tell me which of the engines in the BLW/ZT geep pack were only or mostly used for passenger service?

Thanks a lot! Smile

uli

GaryG · Guest

If there was a steam generator in the short end it would probably have been mainly for passenger trains.

To identify if it had a steam generator, there would be a six inch or so round exhaust vent in the top of the short end.

GaryG

rfranzosa · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject:

Uli,

Passenger & Freight:
B&M GP7s*, GN GP7s, NYC (P&LE #5735, 5737), PRR #8552 &8553 and NH GP9s.

Freight only:
all the rest... Cool

* The B&M GP7s did not have steam generators, but did have auxilliary lighting/heat (the 'bump' at the base of the long hood). They were used almost exclusively in commuter service out of Boston.

uli · Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 116 Location: Berlin, Germany

Thanks a lot to both of you for the information! Smile

uli

CRQ5508 · Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 89

You pretty much hit the nail on the head about the B&M 'Commuter' Geeps, but they weren't exclusive. My dad has some old slides of them in freight duty around Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and also some standard passenger/mail service. But you are right, they were most commonly found in commuter service. Smile

One note about them though is that they were rebuilds done by B&M in the early 1960s/ late 1950s. Most of them were actually originally steam-generator equipped, but had said equipment removed when they were rebuilt.