| Posted by on November 28, 2015 | |
This engine looks like a model kitbash gone wild.
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Interesting, they took the extra radiator shutters off the top of the long hood...
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Isn't US Gypsum run as a narrow gauge railroad? I thought I read that somewhere.
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| Posted by Kibu on November 28, 2015 | |
US Gypsym is a 3 foot narrow gauge line. If memory serves, one or two of their engines came from the White Pass and Yukon.
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Both their locomotives are WP&YR Bombardier (post MLW) RSD-35W's (DL535E). WP&YR ordered 4 of these units in 1982 (#111-114) just before the mines shut down, and they were never delivered on account of the railroad shutdown that quickly followed. The units were stored in Quebec until 1991 when US Gypsum sought new power to replace the aging GE units on their 3ft gauge California operation. They purchased #112 and #113, and when they wrecked the #113 in 1992, they purchased the #111 as a replacement. When the White Pass reopened in 1988 for the tourist industry, the GE shovel nose units and original DL535E's were re purchased from South America (where they were sold upon shutdown), and in 1991 WP&YR finally completed the purchase of #114 which is currently in service in Alaska.
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