[Krieglok]

Here is a Western Maryland GP7 I bought a couple months ago. It is a Lionel Legacy engine with the WM “Highspeed” lettering (corrected, actually “Speed Lettering”). It was one of eight Geep 7s the WM owned. They were without dynamic brakes.

I found the matching Lionel caboose recently. It is a typical WM Northeast style caboose with the same style lettering.

Tom

 

[Refugee]

Beautiful pieces! Slight correction, it is Speed Lettering (not Highspeed).

 

[Krieglok]

Beautiful pieces! Slight correction, it is Speed Lettering (not Highspeed).

Ahh, Thanks! I sort knew it was something like that! Working from an old memory bank....lol.

Tom

 

[seayakbill]

Very nice Tom. The GP 7's are great locomotives, you can use em for everything on your RR.

I can remember back in the day the Northern Pacific lashing up 3 Geeps to haul very long strings of log cars down to the mills on Lake Washington.

Bill

 

[Spence]

Nice addition to the collection.

 

[Krieglok]

Thanks Bill. I always liked the black and yellow Northern Pacific scheme they had on their Geeps. I have been looking for one actually!

Thank you Spence. I picked it up a while ago. I just got around to running it today. It is a good smoker. It has a weird whistle sound when it is in conventional mode but it is perfect in TMCC...

Tom

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

You can always use another GP. Odd that the whistle sounds different in conventional and command. Of course, with Legacy, you can have the quilling whistle operation, that will sound different.

 

[Krieglok]

No, not the air horn whistle, it is just a odd whistle sound that almost seems like a feedback from the speaker. It stops when the TMCC is engaged...

The sound for the airhorns is excellent as it emulates the 5 chime air horn just right...

Tom

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

Well, that's certainly odd, I guess I'd have to hear that one. OTOH, I don't know if most of my stuff might not have the same issue, it's never been run in conventional, unless by mistake.

 

[Krieglok]

That’s true. At first I thought it was the smoke fan squealing. It stopped when I did the TMCC and the smoke unit worked fine.

Not a big deal. If I get a chance, I will record it and post it..

Tom

 

[Chugman]

Nice looking units, Tom.

I recently starting wearing hearing aides and am hearing sounds that were there all along, but I wasn't able to hear anymore. They told me it would be a good and bad news situation. You'll be able to hear conversations better, but also all the squeaks, rattles, and other irritating noises that you had been spared from with your hearing loss. I was so happy my truck didn't have a lot of rattles and now I know that I just couldn't hear them.

It is odd though that you would hear different sounds based on which control method you are using. I hope you figure it out and can share with us the cause.

Art

 

[Krieglok]

Thanks Art!

After 30+ years on the railroad, I know I have hearing loss. The weird thing is that I hear sounds that other people don’t notice at first. I have to have a yearly physical at my work and they test hearing. They tell me every year that my hearing is perfect...lol. I kind of doubt that.

I will try to post a video of the engine running in both modes and see what people think.

Tom

 

[WMnut]

Here is a Western Maryland GP7 I bought a couple months ago. It is a Lionel Legacy engine with the WM “Highspeed” lettering (corrected, actually “Speed Lettering”). It was one of eight Geep 7s the WM owned. They were without dynamic brakes.

I found the matching Lionel caboose recently. It is a typical WM Northeast style caboose with the same style lettering.

Tom

Yeah, another Western Maryland fan, great pictures, thanks for sharing. I am building my last WM layout in my home with the trains and accessory's i kept from a 1400 square ft. 3 level layout that 4 of us guys built and operated in Ocean City Maryland for 10 years.
There was more WM stuff on that layout then anyone ever saw in one place. A copy of the roundhouse in Hagerstown Md, the
WM shay, i had two WM 2-8-0 double heading pulling 22 WM coal hoppers, and it went on and on, everything WM Railroad had, i had, and if no one made it, i custom built it from another road name.
I will stop my rant now, thanks for the pics...

WMnut