My son just got started in trains, and I am looking for a Chessie engine. I was really interested in a Chessie GP7. I believe Williams may have done set with the Chessie and C&O GP7s. Maybe needle in a haystack to find, but I wanted to see if anyone had one.
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It looks like the Chessie GP7-103 #5902 was the engine in the set. I don't know for sure what the Chesapeake and Ohio engine was. I see a site that says it was engine #6100. I would assume it was a GP-7 dummy engine? It looks like the set came out in the early 2000's. If someone might have more information, any help would be appreciated.
While none of the williams engines on ebay, there is quite the selection of Chessie diesels there, both with and without sound from Lionel and MTH. Several GP20, which is somewhat similar in appearance to the GP7 but with a low short hood. Good Luck in your hunt! My wife is a huge Chessie fan. Mike and Michele T
Thanks so much for the reply.
There is a Williams Chessie GP9 on eBay that I have looked at a few times. That is fairly similar. I was really interested in this set because my son really enjoys trains right now and years back, I forced my parents to drive by a Chessie yard whenever we went near there. I remember some of the newer Chessie engines of the early 1980s, but in the yard, some of my earliest memories are of the old Chesapeake and Ohio GP7s and their Chessie counterparts. Those kind of stuck out. I was considering trying to find an old Lionel C&O engine and then trying to find/make a dummy GP7 Chessie. I thought the easier alternative might be to find a Chessie GP7 or this set.
If you decide to go with a GP9 I have one.
Just do what both Williams and Lionel have done to distinguish a GP7 from a GP9 - Remove the Dynamic brake housing from GP9 and you'll have a GP7
Now that you bring that up, the one photo I found of the Williams GP7 shows it as Chessie C&O 5902. The GP9 on Ebay is Chessie B&O 5902. Other than that, I can't really tell the difference from the images I can find.
I think for the Chessie engines, I probably should not get too caught up in GP7 or GP9.
I was going to ask what the difference was. As I understood it, It's the dynamic Brake.
Well, the image I have of the GP7 is from the box, so it is hard to distinguish if the dynamic brake blister is there or not. With a Chessie C&O GP7, I don't think it matters. They had GP7s with and without the dynamic brake blisters.
The louvres under the cab of the GP9 are consistent with the GP7, so as someone mentioned earlier, it looks like the dynamic brake blisters were added to distinguish the two--though I cannot see the dynamic brake on the GP7 (due to box).
The Williams GP9 probably looks closest to that handful of Chessie GP7s with the dynamic brake blisters.