I can remember the days when a Geep like this was always tied up in front of the QA&P HQ. When going north on Hwy 6 thru Quanah, when you started crossing the multiple tracks you first looked left to see what was happening by the QA&P depot, then you looked right to see what might be spotted near the FW&D depot. Then you paralleled the SL-SF all the way to Eldorado and Olustee. Oh, take me back...
How about some details... What brand models are these, whose decals did you use, details you added, etc. Thanks, Tony
These are all Lionel Legacy GP7’s. All four were originally decorated for Pennsy, so they started out black with a minimum of lettering to remove. The decals are K4 brand. In addition, I had to remove the PRR horns from the long hood, remove the crew members facing long hood forward, add horns over the cab, and paint the handrails. I am still searching for yellow beacon housings and realistic spark arrestors.
Here is my latest repaint. This one is an Atlas GP7 unpowered unit. It disassembled differently from the Lionel models I’ve done, with about an equal amount of difficulty.
Rob, Recommend you consider renumbering the GP7L above. SLSF 465 should be an EMD GP38-2, phase Id. The Frisco's GP7L units were numbered SLSF 500-549, 555-599 and 600-632. SLSF 500-524 were phase I, the balance of the GP7L's, 525-549, 555-599 and 600-632 were phase IIa. Hope this helps. Thanks! Mark
What years were you in Quanah? My grandfather (mother's side) was a lineman for the QA&P for many years and lived just north of Quanah and west of Highway 6. He was forced to retire somewhere around 1955 due to a back injury (broke something like 5 vertebrae). His name was Joseph McGuire but just about everyone called him Mac. He was fairly cantankerous...but a lot of railroaders were back then! Attached is a scan of his pass right after retirement. My apologies for the thread drift, but when I see "Quanah", I get pretty excited. Paul Moore
I was marked up on the Oklahoma City board from August 1981 to August 1982. Most of that 13 months was spent in QU working the seasonal wheat turns or catching work trains out west. When the QA&P abandonment began, I was issued a QA&P employee number, and filled a vacancy on the Quanah switcher job. Nobody on the OKC board wanted to be forced to QU except me and an engineer named RC Richmond. Both of us had family nearby.
You’re correct, of course. The previous geeps were done with painstaking accuracy, but I got lazy on this one. In my decal sets I picked a sequence of numbers that were all together rather than cutting out the correct individual digits. Since I will never sell this model I just let things slide.
