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Viewing Album:  WIR GP-16 Number 316
 
By:Thomas Hillebrant
Dates:1/5/2008 - 3/5/2010
Album Info:I got pretty interested in this particular hybrid engine, and thought I'd like to have a model of it. Took a bunch of detail photos and built a model from an old Front Range GP-9 I had in a box, with a lot of detail parts including Cannon & Co cab and nose. I think it came out pretty good, but you can judge for itself. There has been a lot of confusion about the model designation for this particular unit - some folks insist it is a GP-11 and not a GP-16. The fact is that anything other than the "God-given" EMD designations of GP-7, GP-9, GP-18, etc . . . are unofficial model nomenclature. The railroad that sends a locomotive off for a rebuild often prefers to call it something else, usually to keep the rebuilt locomotives separate from the non-rebuilt on its roster. But subsequent owners also have a right to call them something else if they wish. I don't know (and don't care) what the Seaboard System called this unit when it came back from its rebuild at Paducah, KY. But if you climb into the cab of the 316 and look at its FRA Blue Card (as I have), you will see the designation GP-16 and nothing else. That's what I'm sticking with here. Comments to the contrary may be deleted.
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WRIX 316
Title:  WRIX 316
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Photo Date:  1/5/2008  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:22:35 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WRIX 316(GP16)
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WRIX 316
Title:  WRIX 316
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Photo Date:  1/5/2008  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:22:43 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WRIX 316(GP16)
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WRIX 316
Title:  WRIX 316
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Photo Date:  1/5/2008  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:22:48 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WRIX 316(GP16)
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WRIX 316
Title:  WRIX 316
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Photo Date:  1/5/2008  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:26:13 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WRIX 316(GP16)
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WRIX 316
Title:  WRIX 316
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Photo Date:  1/5/2008  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:26:19 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WRIX 316(GP16)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  11/27/2008  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:26:24 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
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WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  11/27/2008  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:25:51 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  314   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  11/27/2008  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:26:07 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
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WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:30:29 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
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WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:30:35 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:30:08 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  256   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:30:19 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
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WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:30:24 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
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WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:34:06 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:34:11 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  277   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:34:23 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  220   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:34:33 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  407   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  4/18/2009  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:34:00 AM
Location:  Marshall, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/5/2010  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:38:35 AM
Location:  Potlatch, ID
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  383   Comments: 2
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
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Photo Date:  3/5/2010  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:38:42 AM
Location:  Potlatch, ID
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  183   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/5/2010  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:38:11 AM
Location:  Palouse, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
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Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/5/2010  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:38:22 AM
Location:  Palouse, WA
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  239   Comments: 0
WIR 316
Title:  WIR 316
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/5/2010  Upload Date: 5/30/2011 1:38:28 AM
Location:  Potlatch, ID
Author:  Thomas Hillebrant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WIR 316(GP16)
Views:  231   Comments: 0

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