Any pictures of the new Lionel GP35's in Missouri Pacific or Western Maryland?

Hi Frank-

Naturally you and I have the same good taste...  I got the pair of the MoPac GP35s.

They are awsome...  I love them!  I can stap a pic or two and post them...  Give me a few days...

where did you purchase them? thanks, sal

I pre-ordered them from my LHS...

No there is no dynamic brake (i will check again, but I think it is not there)...  I cant be certain, but I am 95% sure it did not have the dynamic brake...

What LHS?

Swafford,

Super O is right. There are no dynamic brakes on the Mopac. This is the way they were. I saw somewhere on this site a few weeks ago that somebody said the T&P had dynamic brakes -that is not correct. Both Mopac & T&P Gp35's did not have Dynamic brakes. Most all T&P units prior to GP-35's did. Mine (#607) looks the same as my Atlas GP-35's and would have ordered more if they had done different numbers. Atlas already did 603 & 611. T&P units were 600-614.

The only thing I wished they had was Texas & Pacific Buzzsaws on the cab. They were delivered with T&P buzzsaws and at some time they were changed. Both Atlas and Lionel did Mopac buzzsaws.

Have not run it yet, but have had it about 3 weeks from Charlie.

Joe

Good Day Joe and Bob,

Thank you for the information. When time permits please post some pictures. Now I need to find out where I can purchase the MoPac's!

Regards,

Frank

Frank, no one seems to want to share info on where to purchase these mopac units. What's up with that? sal

Not hiding from you Sal.  I just ordered mine when the Fall catalog ordering window was open.  It was just a local a shop in Detroit but I know the production numbers were very very low for this batch of the GP35's.  Best to just call around to the big dealers.

I also got the ATSF GP35's to lash with my previous legacy GP30's.  The colors are very close to same and they painted the GP35 better than the GP30 yellow bonnets.

I plan to lash all 4 ATSF geeps together and post a video soon...

I would try and snag some MOPAC's cause they are very nice...  However maybe we can get another run and some T&P logo ones next time!

Sal,

I said I got it from Charlie (Nassau Hobby)

I have the MoPacs on order from Charles Ro.

Neal Jeter

Good Day Gentlemen,

Any pictures of the Mopac GP35's please?

Regards,

Frank

I have to apologize, as I believe I stated earlier that the T&P GP35s had dynamic brakes. As Blue Streak states, they nor the MP GP 35s did not have them. 

Here is a colorized photo of the T&P GP35's with T&P buzzsaw on the cab. This along with maybe 9 other long postcard style photos were given out by the Missouri Pacific public relations department in the 1970's

The Chicago & Eastern Illinois GP35's did have dynamic brake which were painted in the Mopac Screaming Eagle scheme when they picked them up thru merger.

I have the Atlas model and have not seen the Lionel version. 

Dan

Hi Dan,

WOW.........Thanks for the picture. A trio of these would look great on a layout!

Regards,

Frank

Good Day,

Any pictures of the new Lionel MP GP35's?

Regards,

Swafford

I got my Missouri Pacific GP35s last week from Charles Ro.

Neal Jeter