Athearn Genesis EMD Great Northern GP-9 Review.
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- This is a review video of the newest run of the Athearn Genesis EMD GP9 in the Great Northern Big Sky Blue livery. Note I am not sponsored by Athearn or any model railroad company, and all opinions I mention are my own personal opinion. I have to thank a couple of my friends for helping me make this review possible. My really good friend Liam for allowing me to review this locomotive while I was still paying it off and my friend Alex for helping me out with doing all the videos and photos for the review. I will put both of their channels in the description below. Hope you enjoy, the review don't forget to subscribe, like, and comment!
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HO gauge for me because it’s practical I’ve been doing it for about 50 years and it’s satisfying.
That intro XD
The real moment
I agree that the atherns sound systems are pretty decent, all of my BLI ones kinda sound like poop at high speeds
Gotta love the tsuami 2 decoders. I have heard some good BLI ones at speed but they are few and far between
It should be noted the gray is not really gray. GN called it gray-green and it does have a green tint in real life. Athearn did a good job of that, but other mfrs failed to see the green. The Big Sky Blue scheme was introduced in 1967 and was designed by the design firm Lippincott and Margulies, which also designed Illinois Central "split rail" logo, CP Rail's Multimark--and the BN "Cascade Green" scheme.
@@Greatdome99 yea i really like the sky blue paint scheme they did for it. Hopefully someday they do more GN locomotives in sky blue.
GP9s were/are not turbocharged.
@@rosemarycornwell1528 Most weren’t but there were some that were modified with them. It was mainly a UP thing. I did do more digging on the types of engines and the 567Ds were the first ones to get the turbochargers but besides the turbo charger they were identical to the 567C. Which raised some confusion with the 567C being turbocharged.
There were no stock turbo GP9s. All two-cycle diesels are supercharged (mechanically-driven "blower")--necessary to push air into the cylinders since there is no intake stroke as in 4-cycle engines. UP's rebuilt "Omaha GP20s" were turbocharged GP9s modified by the UP, not EMD.
@@Greatdome99 correct.
There were the 567D engines that were turbo charged and like the 567C they were 2 cycle. In fact the two types are virtually identical besides the D version having the turbo.