The EMD GP16 are a series of rebuilt diesel-electric locomotives, a result of a remanufacturing program initiated by the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL) in an effort to spare the cost of purchasing new motive power in the late 1970s. This involved the rebuilding of their aging fleet of EMD GP7, GP9 and GP18 road switchers. 155 locomotives were rebuilt by the SCL.
Buckingham Branch Railroad No. 2, a GP16 rebuild, rests at Dillwyn, Virginia
Two CSX, ex-SCL GP16s, still in Family Lines System livery
A plate Conrail on USAX 4635, a GP16 at Fort Eustis, Virginia, when remanufactured in 1993
CSX sold many GP16s to the United States Army and today #4635 serves at Fort Eustis
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad was a Class I railroad company operating in the Southeastern United States beginning in 1967. Its passenger operations were taken over by Amtrak in 1971. Eventually, the railroad was merged with its affiliate lines to create the Seaboard System in 1983.
Former Seaboard Coast Line Railroad class M-6 caboose on display at the Mulberry Phosphate Museum in Mulberry, Florida