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EMD GP18 Diesel
Amtrak
No.
EMD GP18 Diesel
Burlington Northern
No.16254 w/caboose
No.16654 w/non-pwr matching GP-18
EMD GP18 Diesel
Chessie System
No.5012-11
No.16252 w/caboose
No.16652 w/non-pwr matching GP-18
Some years after AHM departs the hobby, Bachmann imports a run of this same GP-18 model.
Bachmann had this engine in train set offerings in the late 1980s. The paint jobs of the Bachmann GP-18 model matches
that of the AHM. Bachmann had three roadnames (Chessie, Santa Fe, and Union Pacific) in its GP-18 roster.
EMD GP18 Diesel
Chicago & North Western
No.5012-B
No.5012-02
EMD GP18 Diesel
Erie Lackawanna
No.5012-13
EMD GP18 Diesel
Frisco
No.5012-08
Photo courtesy Bob O'Brien Collection
EMD GP18 Diesel
Great Northern
No.5012C
No.5012-03
No.16754 w/blinking beacon
EMD GP18 Diesel
Illinois Central
No.5012-07
EMD GP18 Diesel
Lehigh Valley
No.5012-12
EMD GP18 Diesel
Norfolk & Western (Blue)
No.5012-10
EMD GP18 Diesel
Norfolk & Western Spirit of '76
No.5012-09
AHM used its GP18 to create an N&W 1776 model. Bachmann also applied the N&W
red, white and blue scheme, but they used their U36B. The prototype N&W #1776 in Bicentennial dress was a high-nose
SD45, which has recently been done by Athearn in its Ready To Roll line.
EMD GP18 Diesel
Norfolk & Western (Maroon) (not pictured)
No.16752
EMD GP18 Diesel
Reading
No.5021-E
No.5012-05
EMD GP18 Diesel
Rock Island
No.
This GP-18 dressed in The Rock blue and white appears on the inside
back cover of an AHM catalog around 1980 and is not included in the regular catalog listings for the GP-18.
EMD GP18 Diesel
Santa Fe (blue-and-yellow)
No.5012-F
No.5012-06
EMD GP18 Diesel
Santa Fe (red-and-silver)
No.16251 w/caboose
No.16651 w/non-pwr matching GP-18
EMD GP18 Diesel
Seaboard
Spirit of '76
No.0512-14
EMD GP18 Diesel
Soo
Line
No.5012-D
No.5012-04
EMD GP18 Diesel
Western Pacific
No.16753
AHM displayed an HO-scale sample of EMD's 1800 horsepower GP18
at the 1974 Chicago Hobby Show. The model's frame includes the handrailing, similar to the design of other European-made
models of this period. The upper structure is a single plastic shell that features the long and short hoods and
cab section of the GP-18. It was a rare example in its day of a plastic geep model that had close to scale-width hoods.
Following AHM's offering of this model, Bachmann returns a very similar example of the GP-18 to market in train sets in the
late '80s and early '90s. IHC has also imported the GP-18 since AHM's departure. Outside the U.S., Mehano boxed
examples of the GP18 are available. Mehano of Slovenia is the maker of the model today, AHM's GP18 offerings were
produced in Yugoslovia. Yugoslovia is today Slovenia.
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