MKT GP7 100 was scrapped in 2008 by the National Railway Equipment Company in Dixmoor, Illinois due to its poor condition. With the scrapping process starting in May 2008, and it was done by June 2008.
It was still possible to find red and black unrebuilt GP7s like MKT 100 running around the system in 1976.
MKT GP7 100 is on the point of a northbound work train parked on the siding at the crew change point at Duncan, Oklahoma. This is the former Rock Island main which became Katy subsidiary Oklahoma Kansas Texas Railroad. Photo taken by Roy Grabman.
MKT 100
MKT 100
MKT GP7 100 gets scrapped at NRE Dixmoor.
The remaints of MKT GP7 100 which will probably no longer exist in a few days. I've been told these engines have been here rusting away since 1989!
Pieces of MKT GP7 100 sit scattered all over the place. In a few days this engine will probably no longer exist.
Not too much left of this old Katy engine.
Days are numbered 104 was already cut up!!!!
A few GP7 engines pass near the Houston Belt & Terminal shops close to downtown.
MKT 101 - NRE Dixmoor
MKT 100 - NRE Dixmoor