RVSC 1705         
Date: 1/20/2009 Location: McAllen, TX Views: 697 Collection Of:   John Briggs
Locomotives: RVSC 1705(GP16) RVSC 4105(GP7)    Author:  John Briggs
RVSC 1705
Picture Categories: This picture is part of album:  South Texas Shortline Trip 2009
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Jim Bruce General 1705 is a GP11.This Clinchfield GP11 rebuild was one outsourced to the ICG/PNC shop at Paducah, KY and is an Illinois Central Gulf Paducah Shops rebuild. ICG designated these as GP11 locomotives. ICG Paducah-rebuilt GP11 locomotives were numbered in the 8700-series. Clinchfield Railroad also had 6 of these GP11 locomotives. These were also built by ICG-Paducah, and are betrayed by the shortened nose (to accomodate a new electrical cabinet behind the cab,) spartan cab and the primary air filtration system, which is mounted atop the hood behind the forward radiator section. The GP16 is a product of Seaboard System and Family Lines' own Geep rebuild progam, with units dubbed Uceta Geeps, because of the shop that did the work, followed, and these encompassed core units from most of the Family Lines component roads. 2/23/2009 3:11:26 PM

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