Anyone Have Photos of the New Lionel Wabash GP9?

Here ya go Bob:

This is an engineering sample but I would guess the production model is the same.

Just curious - what color should it be?

Bob,

No picture in your post....

I see two photos: the first is a close-up of the front, and the second is an overall Engineer's side view.

Interesting...looks like a proxy server is blocking the photos for me.  Disregard.

Not sure what was going on with the photos, I can see both.

When I first got the engine I tried Googling the engine number and the only thing I found was an older non-Legacy engine with the same road number.  This one definitely has Legacy and runs/sounds great.

I want to repaint it for Seaboard Air Line, even though I already have a GP9.  Seaboard had only one GP9 (#1912) painted in their "Jolly Green Giant" (aka zinc chromate green) paint scheme and thought that it would be a good candidate to use.  I wonder if they have a GP7 body that would fit?

Wabash unit looks right, but is missing the "torpedo tubes" on the roof. It just so happens I was looking through my Wabash book last night concerning the 1985 GP9 JCPenney version, to see how correct that was (not even close). The GP9s were used in passenger service, so they had steam generators (not shown on this Lionel version) and air tanks moved to the roof. 

Here is an image of a passenger GP9 I found on Gellwood's Fallen Flags site:

Bob - 

Check through Lionel's catalogs over last two years - they did make some non-dynamic Legacy GP7s that could be repainted into SAL scheme. I would think Lionel may eventually come out with a SAL GP7 or GP9, since they made others lately in SAL. I am hoping they make an ACL purple/silver GP7 in the future myself.

Larry,

Thanks, I need a GP7 on my SAL roster, but Atlas came out with the GP9 first.

I was even thinking of repainting it into a N&W Bluebird or Redbird, but still need those roof-mounted tubes as I think the engines N&W had were the Wabash engines from the "merger".

I've looked high and low for a photo of SAL 1912 in the Jolly Green Giant paint but haven't found one yet in all those historical society mags or in any books I have.

Without a good source of decals, I'm almost afraid to take on any project these days, other than a piece of rolling stock (thanks to Jerry Glow ).  Seems like I recall him saying he doesn't do engine decals, but I'm not sure (need to email him).

I also wondered about the blue painted roof.  But then some friends provided me pics of this engine and sure enough, no torpedo tubes, and a blue painted roof with horns as the lionel model was made.

So it was prototypical...  I did buy a set of these Legacy Wabash GP9's after seeing these pics, thanks for posting them...

Thanks Larry, I've got Warren's email.

Bob, what about that Wabash flag, is it backwards on my model???

No, it appears to be prototypical.

Locomotives: CWI 263(RS1) WAB 495(GP9)			Author:  Marty Bernard

Thanks breezinup!

I looked at the enlarged photo, isn't that blue auto in the photo one that had a rear window that went up/down?  Can't recall what make/model it was.

Looking at the photo Larry  put up, there's also an additional headlight with red/green lenses.