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Gary Everhart's Collection
 
2/4/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Pioneer Rail Equipment
Model:Rebuilt EMD GP16Built As:ACL 225 (GP7)
Serial Number:14969Order No:5141
Frame Number:5141-2Built:11/1951
Notes:Ex-ACL
Other locos with this serial:  DT 1608(GP16) PREX 1608(GP16) CSX 1770(GP16) SCL 4724(GP16) SCL 845(GP7)
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A Pair of GP 16 "Yellow Jackets"
Title:  A Pair of GP 16 "Yellow Jackets"
Description:  Ambling along near IL 48 were these two GP16s looking like two large yellow jacket wasps humming through the grasslands.
Photo Date:  9/21/2015  Upload Date: 3/2/2017 10:34:16 AM
Location:  Argenta, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  PREX 1607(GP16) PREX 1608(GP16)
Views:  490   Comments: 4
A Pair of GP 16 "Yellow Jackets"
Title:  A Pair of GP 16 "Yellow Jackets"
Description:  Both units were immaculate, not a speck of dust, dirt or grime on them.
Photo Date:  9/21/2015  Upload Date: 3/2/2017 10:34:21 AM
Location:  Argenta, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  PREX 1607(GP16) PREX 1608(GP16)
Views:  407   Comments: 3
Trailing "Yellow Jacket"
Title:  Trailing "Yellow Jacket"
Description:  PREX 1608 is also far from its original home as Atlantic Coast Line loco. Built by EMD originally as a GP7 in November of 1951, it was later rebuilt to the GP16 standard after serving several rr lines.
Photo Date:  9/21/2015  Upload Date: 3/2/2017 10:34:36 AM
Location:  Argenta, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  PREX 1608(GP16)
Views:  271   Comments: 1


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