My 2 Great Lakes Central Locomotives

Once #391 is repaired I will have 2 GP35's pulling my Great Lakes Central freight train.

Work Has Begun On 2 Great Lakes Central Locomotives

I am in the process of painting 2 EMD GP35's in the Great Lakes Central paint scheme. they will become GLC #385 and GLC #391. I have ordered the decals, and have put the first coat of paint on one of the locomotives.

I cant wait to see how they turn out. I am now beginning to look for rolling stock that I can custom paint with Great Lakes Central markings.

Locomotives of The Great Lakes Central Railroad

GLC 1 (25 Tonner)

GLC 385 (GP35)

GLC 389 (GP35)

GLC 390 (GP35)

GLC 391 (GP35)

GLC 392 (GP35)

GLC 393 (GP35)

GLC 394 (GP35)

GLC 395 (GP38-2)

GLC 396 (GP38-2)

GLC 397 (GP38-2)

GLC 398 (GP38-2)

GLC 399 (GP38-2)

GLC 1226 (25 Tonner)

GLC 2126 (25 Tonner)

GLC 2237 (Ford F250)

GLC 2648 (GP35 parts Locomotive)

EMD GP35 Locomotive

EMD GP35

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

EMD GP35
Type and origin
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	General Motors Electro-Motive Division(EMD), General Motors Diesel, Canada (GMD)
Model	GP35
Build date	July 1963 – January 1966
Total produced	1,334
Specifications
Gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Prime mover	EMD 567D3A
Cylinders	V16
Performance figures
Power output	2,500 hp (1.86 MW)
Career
Locale	North America

The EMD GP35 is a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between July 1963 and December 1965 and by General Motors Diesel between May 1964 and January 1966. The locomotive's power was provided by an EMD 567D3A 16-cylinder engine which generated 2,500 horsepower (1,860 kW).

Many railroads traded in Alco and EMD F units for GP35s, reusing the trucks and traction motors. Some railroads had EMD reuse the Alco trucks on the GP35s. Notable examples include the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Southern Railway, and the Ann Arbor Railroad.

1251 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads, 26 were built for Canadian railroads and 57 were built for Mexican railroads.

Canadian Pacific Changes Its Look

In 2014 the Canadian Pacific Changed its image and paint scheme. The Railway logo was simplified It went from this:

to this:

 and now looks like this:

The paint scheme went from this:

to this:

to this:

and now this:

New N Scale Canadian Pacific Locomotive

I picked up a Canadian Pacific N scale locomotive about a week ago and I am running it on my coffee table layout. It runs great. It was made by Atlas. It is the first of the locomotives that I have planned for the larger N scale layout. I just picked up a bay window caboose that is running on the layout as well. I have a few freight cars that I have yet to pick up.

Ann Arbor Railroad Paint Scheme of the 1960's and 1970's

I found this great photo on line (PHOTO CREDIT: TODD GREENBERG
http://reeb88.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx…) of an Ann Arbor GP35 AA390, and thought I would share it with all of you. I really like this paint scheme. I believe it was used during the 1960's and 1970's by the Ann Arbor Railroad under the control of the Detroit Toledo and Ironton Railroad. It is only missing the compass logo under the cab windows.

The missing logo looks like this

the Paint scheme and logo are copied directly from the Detroit Toledo and Ironton paint scheme and logo

as shown below

and the logo looks like this

Progress On The Coffee Table

After some time of leaving the layout alone I started working on the coffee table again. The trees on the left side of the table still need to be worked on I changed the name of the station to "Salt Creek" Station named after the original name of the village of Shepherd Michigan. The locomotive is a GP35 painted up with markings that represent the Ann Arbor Railroad under DTI control, followed by 4 boxcars with Ann Arbor Railroad markings as existed under Wabash control. Two tank cars followed by two covered hoppers a coal car and a gondola and finally a caboose brings up the rear. The layout also includes a farmhouse and a barn, a residential area, a school house, a feed store, a hotel, and a church. A lake separates the two half's of the layout. a mountain with a train tunnel gives the impression that the train is traveling further than it actually is. Working on this layout is what inspired me to want to create a larger N scale layout. The Canadian National layout that I have been talking about.

The Train That Runs On The Coffee Table

The train is modeled after the Ann Arbor Railroad under Detroit Toledo & Ironton Railroad control during the 1960's. 2 boxcars still display the Ann Arbor logo from when it was owned by the Wabash railroad. I have plans to add a few more cars to it but the layout is so small I will have to limit the number to only a few. There is still much work that needs to be done on the layout.

I've Added N Scale To The Mix

Sandy and I were looking over the space in our library and decided the space was missing something. Sandy came up with the thought that the space could use an N scale coffee table layout in front of the love seat. I jumped at the chance to add another layout to my ever growing collection. We began when I found some N scale EZ Track that I had packed away from when Ted had an N scale layout from years ago. We later picked up an Ann Arbor GP35 locomotive and a couple of Ann Arbor boxcars from Mountain Town Hobbies in Mt. Pleasant Michigan. The next day we took a trip to Junction Valley Railroad's hobby shop and picked up a few buildings some trees and people for the layout.  The layout is just starting to take shape and the train is running just fine.

A Few More Visits To The Gym

Just a few more visits to the gym and I will have earned enough money to buy a Tuscola and Saginaw Bay locomotive number 394 "The City of Clare". Mountain Town Hobbies in Mount Pleasant Michigan is holding it for me. This locomotive along with the one, Number 389 "The City of Traverse City", I already have and the custom covered hopper cars I am painting up will make the transition complete going from an Ann Arbor freight train to The Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway freight train.

#389 The City of Traverse City

#394 The City of Clare

Change of Plans

With the out of stock situation regarding my attempt to purchase an Ann Arbor locomotive, compounded by the fact that another Ann Arbor locomotive that I already have broke down yesterday, I am changing my freight train configuration from only Ann Arbor to a mixture of Ann Arbor and Tuscola and Saginaw Bay. I am pulling a lot of rolling stock so I need a minimum of two locomotives to pull it all. Hopefully by the end of the next month (June) I will have two Tuscola and Saginaw Bay GP35's and one Ann Arbor GP38 doing the job.
Currently I am using a current day Ann Arbor GP38 and an Ann Arbor GP35 with The Detroit Toledo and Ironton paint scheme and a Tuscola and Saginaw Bay GP35.

What your looking for is sometimes in front of you

I have been searching frantically for Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Locomotives for a while. I got lucky about a month ago and found one on the internet # 389 The City of Traverse City. It was a great price and I was sure that the other Locomotive was out of my reach. About a week ago I was in Mountain Town Hobbies in Mt. Pleasant Michigan and there on the shelf was the locomotive # 394 The City of Clare. Needless to say I had them put it aside for me. This is the locomotive that Athern misspelled the name of the city as Clair. this makes that locomotive somewhat of a collectors item.