Lehigh Valley GP-9

Nice photo! We just purchased this shell from Williams to convert a Norfolk Southern unit to LV with TMCC. 

Nice, Love the guy fishing in the creek...

Great work!

It looks really good.  GP-9 are such a good looking loco to me.

As mentioned above, we just got this she'll to do a conversion. I was surprised to see that only one end of the cab has the black and white stripe pattern.

What is the correct war to run this locomotive - short hood forward as shown in the photo?

 

It's a nice looking shell. Prototypically, the LV Geep 300 only had striping on one end, but the striping was very different than that on the Williams shell, plus it had a LV diamond logo above the striping. The real one also had a large LV diamond logo on the other end. Williams also uses a different font for the "Lehigh Valley" lettering, and the real engine was red, not the maroon shade of the Williams version shown in the initial photo. But it's still a great looking shell. (Just for comparison, the Lionel traditional LV GP-9 from the Black Diamond set is shown below.) I really enjoy swapping shells on traditional Lionel TMCC/RailSounds Geep chassis.

 

There are photos of the LV running this engine both short and long hood forward, however, the short hood end with the striping was the normal front, as shown by the "F" on the chassis above the front wheel set in the top photo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lehigh Valley ran short nose forward.