Michael,

It's (or will be) PRR 8551.  The Pennsy had 66 GP-7's but only three looked
like this one with it's roof mounted air tanks.  The pilot steps are from
BTS.  I also replaced the steps at each of the four corners of the body
because the AM steps are grossly undersized. I used styrene strips that I
perforated to resembel safety tread.  You can find really good S-scale
plans for the GP-7 in the October 1982 issue of Mainline Modeler (long out
of print, but pops up from time to time on Ebay).  the DPH hoods are
fantastic and not that difficult to add to the GP-9 shell.  Some day I'd
like to do an article on this conversion.

Bob Frascella
wenham, MA

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Michael Ostertag <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Michael Ostertag
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