ICG GP8:

This page is dedicated to ICG's fleet of GP8 units. The IC's (and later ICG's) Paducah, KY shops rebuilt a total of xxx units into what they called GP8 units. These were basically GP7/9 units from both the IC fleet and others that the IC/ICG had purchased that were rebuilt. The main spotting features were the chop nose and air filter box addition. The program was begun in the late 1960's and initially took IC GP7's at random and rebuilt them. The first group were renumbered by changing the first digit "8" to an "7" retaining the last three digits. This changed at some point with rebuilt locomotives being assigned new numbers without regard to original number.

Units rebuilt after August 1972 were outshopped with ICG lettering. Units rebuilt prior to that point wore IC lettering and were relettered to ICG occasionally.

Only a very flew GP8 units were rebuilt and retained their high front hoods.

Rebuilt units:

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