Dry revving a New York Central GP7

Here we are just north of Philipse Manor Station on Riverside Drive, where we see Metro North GP8 543 working a 10 car ballast train, which happened to be dropping its ballast on Track 4. 543, was originally a GP7 built for the New York Central in May of 1953 as engine 5770. Its number remained 5770 during the Penn Central era and was rebuilt by Rock Island's Silvis Shops in 1978, while under Conrail. It was then renumbered as 5432, and was reclassified as a GP8. When Metro North took over, they gave it its current number, 543. 543 has always been a long hood forward engine. Enjoy the sound of the 567C engine, as well as the exhaust that comes out of the stacks. If you have any questions about the video, feel free to message me. Comments are welcome. The video was taken on May 13th, 2009.

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[ThePunkjaz]

Brings back bad memories..... I maintained this turkey during the 80's. A real P.O.S.

[TRAINMANCW]

geeps sounds sweet

[TheCCCSTL]

@jfrydom Only a handful of NYC GP-7s had dynamic brakes and they were originally used around Ashtabula, Ohio moving coal and ore trains towards and away from the docks. There was a very steep grade coming away from the docks up to the NYC mainline so consequently the need for dynamics coming towards the docks. One of the dynamic equipped engines was 5687 so this engine which was numbered 5770 was not one of them. None of the NYC GP-9s were equipped with dynamics.

[jfrydom]

@cbehr91 they might have been removed during the rebuild

[arkie74]

love that 567 whine!!!

[ERIELACKU34CH]

nice. you cant "pump air" with our NJT units. low air cuts out the throttle. you have to let it build slowly. totally sucks when u start an engine that was sitting all night

[cbehr91]

Also notice that this unit was built without dynamic brakes.

[DrAlco]

I like this video wery much. To hear the sound from the root blowers. Oh yes...thats the real stuff...The sound like our class "DSB MY". Fantastic video. Great 5 stars.

[five0fan]

Never new they had these.

[GP9railfan]

They must've been doing that to build the air pressure faster. Nice catch BTW! 5/5 stars!