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Owner: Baltimore & Ohio
Model:EMD GP40-2Built As:BO GM50 (GP40-2)
Serial Number:7365-14Order No:7365
Frame Number:7365-14Built:9/1972
Notes:9/1972, became BO 4164 and then CSX 6063
Other locos with this serial:  CSX 6063(GP40-2) BO GM50(GP40-2) BO 4164(GP40-2)
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BO GP40-2 #GM50 - GM Annversay Special
Title:  BO GP40-2 #GM50 - GM Annversay Special
Description:  B&O had a newly built GP40-2 painted solid gold & numbered "GM50" to celebrate GM's 50th year of building locomotives. Known as the golden Anniversary Special, it was painted a solid gold color including its trucks. Eventually it was repainted in 1984 and renumbered B) 4164. When it joined the CSX family, it was renumbered again as CSX #6063. The loco is automaticamly destined for the B&O Museum upon retirement. Thanks Jason Trew (see comment below) for the correction and information.
Photo Date:  9/15/1972  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 10:41:59 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  2116   Comments: 2
All that glitters
Title:  All that glitters
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/1972  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 7:51:26 PM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  Karl Rethwisch
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  1941   Comments: 2
B&O GP40-2 #GM50
Title:  B&O GP40-2 #GM50
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency
Photo Date:  11/1/1973  Upload Date: 6/17/2006 7:50:49 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  6298   Comments: 8
B&O GP40-2 #GM50
Title:  B&O GP40-2 #GM50
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. B&OCT Barr Yard.
Photo Date:  9/1/1974  Upload Date: 8/1/2006 9:09:34 PM
Location:  Riverdale, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  2346   Comments: 1
B&O GP40-2 #GM50
Title:  B&O GP40-2 #GM50
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency
Photo Date:  1/18/1975  Upload Date: 3/31/2006 6:42:35 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  1665   Comments: 1
B&O GP40-2 #GM50
Title:  B&O GP40-2 #GM50
Description:  Dvgital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. State Line Crossing, Hammond, Indiana.
Photo Date:  1/18/1975  Upload Date: 3/29/2006 10:22:30 PM
Location:  State Line Crossing, IN
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2) BO 3769(GP40)
Views:  1596   Comments: 3
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/5/1975  Upload Date: 10/12/2023 10:47:00 AM
Location:  Toledo, OH
Author:  Niko B
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/21/1976  Upload Date: 5/6/2014 9:02:08 AM
Location:  Salamanca, NY
Author:  Stephie Kolata
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  797   Comments: 0
BO 6652
Title:  BO 6652
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2007 7:37:16 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6652(GP9) BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  1477   Comments: 1
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/1977  Upload Date: 8/8/2007 10:33:15 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  1336   Comments: 0
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/1977  Upload Date: 8/8/2007 10:33:38 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  1380   Comments: 0
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/1977  Upload Date: 8/8/2007 10:34:01 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  884   Comments: 0
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/5/1977  Upload Date: 8/8/2007 10:34:26 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  2418   Comments: 1
BO 4138
Title:  BO 4138
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/20/1978  Upload Date: 8/14/2007 11:54:28 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4138(GP40-2) BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  2458   Comments: 2
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/28/1978  Upload Date: 8/7/2007 2:33:13 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2) BO 4800(GP38) BO 3716(GP40)
Views:  1933   Comments: 1
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/28/1978  Upload Date: 8/7/2007 2:33:56 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2) BO 4298(GP40-2)
Views:  1411   Comments: 0
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/28/1978  Upload Date: 8/7/2007 2:34:41 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2) BO 4298(GP40-2) BO 6600(GP9)
Views:  1404   Comments: 0
Chessie System B&O GM50
Title:  Chessie System B&O GM50
Description:  My railfan buddy captured Chessie System B&O GM50 at Charlottesville, VA in July 29, 1978. With permission.
Photo Date:  7/29/1978  Upload Date: 3/17/2018 8:51:46 PM
Location:  Charlottesville, VA
Author:  Andrew J. Erlichman
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  639   Comments: 0
Chessie System B&O GM50
Title:  Chessie System B&O GM50
Description:  My railfan buddy captured Chessie System B&O GM50 at Charlottesville, MD in July 29, 1978. With permission.
Photo Date:  7/29/1978  Upload Date: 3/17/2018 8:47:20 PM
Location:  Charlottesville, VA
Author:  Andrew J. Erlichman
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  810   Comments: 0
Special 50th Anniversary Chessie Gold B&O GP40-2 GM50 - 1978
Title:  Special 50th Anniversary Chessie Gold B&O GP40-2 GM50 - 1978
Description:  An amazing bit of luck for pasengers on a Southern steam excusion, this unit just happened to be in a consist at Charlottesville on the C&O while the excursion from Alexandria was laying over before the return trip
Photo Date:  7/29/1978  Upload Date: 3/25/2012 11:08:05 AM
Location:  Charlottesville, VA
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  1211   Comments: 1
Solid GolD GP-40-2 GM50 waits at Eastside Yard
Title:  Solid GolD GP-40-2 GM50 waits at Eastside Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/21/1980  Upload Date: 9/1/2008 8:59:42 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Michael Desoi
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  785   Comments: 1
BO 3842
Title:  BO 3842
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/8/2007 11:01:10 AM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3842(GP38) BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  1140   Comments: 0
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/7/2007 1:10:50 PM
Location:  Connellsville, PA
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  870   Comments: 1
B&O GM 50
Title:  B&O GM 50
Description:  B&O GM 50, exact date unknown
Photo Date:  1/1/1981  Upload Date: 7/25/2007 11:00:44 AM
Location:  Walkerton, IN
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  2271   Comments: 0
B&O GM50
Title:  B&O GM50
Description:  B&O GM50, exact date unknown
Photo Date:  1/1/1981  Upload Date: 7/25/2007 11:08:21 AM
Location:  Walkerton, IN
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  1292   Comments: 0
Chessie System (B&O) GM50
Title:  Chessie System (B&O) GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/12/1981  Upload Date: 8/21/2012 12:27:09 AM
Location:  East Salamanca, NY
Author:  Ray Richards
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  3004   Comments: 0
Chessie System (B&O) GM50
Title:  Chessie System (B&O) GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/12/1981  Upload Date: 8/21/2012 12:30:08 AM
Location:  East Salamanca, NY
Author:  Ray Richards
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  824   Comments: 0
BO GP40-2 #GM50
Title:  BO GP40-2 #GM50
Description:  For the 50th anniversary of Electro-Motive in 1972, EMD built a B&O (Chessie System) GP40-2, painted it gold, and numbered it GM 50. Rail fan Frank Spieles was there to catch it while in Rughterford, NJ yard. The loco eventually became B&O 4164 and then CSX 6063
Photo Date:  9/29/1981  Upload Date: 1/8/2025 5:13:24 PM
Location:  Rutherford, NJ
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  27   Comments: 1
BO GP40-2 #GM50
Title:  BO GP40-2 #GM50
Description:  Here is another view taken by rail fan Frank Spieles of the EMD 50th anniversay loco as it sat in the Rutherford, NJ Yard. It would eventually be renumbered BO 4164 and then CSX 6063.
Photo Date:  9/29/1981  Upload Date: 1/8/2025 5:13:25 PM
Location:  Rutherford, NJ
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  26   Comments: 0
B&O GM50
Title:  B&O GM50
Description:  EB at Center Street
Photo Date:  7/24/1982  Upload Date: 10/5/2014 7:10:31 PM
Location:  Youngstown, OH
Author:  Bruce Gage
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  664   Comments: 0
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description:  EB at Center Street
Photo Date:  7/24/1982  Upload Date: 4/27/2017 7:12:36 AM
Location:  Youngstown, OH
Author:  Bruce Gage
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
GM 50 on PATrain
Title:  GM 50 on PATrain
Description:  GM 50 is filling in for one of the regular F7s
Photo Date:  9/12/1982  Upload Date: 12/21/2008 12:29:12 AM
Location:  Port Vue, PA
Author:  David Moffett
Categories:  Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  1603   Comments: 1
GM 50 (GM Anniversary Special)
Title:  GM 50 (GM Anniversary Special)
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1984  Upload Date: 2/11/2009 9:10:10 AM
Location:  Saginaw, MI
Author:  Jack Smith
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  832   Comments: 0
B&O GM50
Title:  B&O GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/1984  Upload Date: 12/19/2010 9:33:34 PM
Location:  Barr Yard, IL
Author:  Jik Mirabelli
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  1323   Comments: 0
B&O GM50
Title:  B&O GM50
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/4/1984  Upload Date: 3/31/2009 8:49:56 PM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  836   Comments: 1
BO GM50
Title:  BO GM50
Description:  This shot was given to me by someone who lived in the area.
Photo Date:  1/1/1985  Upload Date: 8/11/2012 3:27:54 PM
Location:  Buffalo, NY
Author:  Unknown
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BO GM50(GP40-2)
Views:  737   Comments: 0


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