Talk:Godzilla (2014 film)/@comment-7165120-20140923200027/@comment-7165120-20140924155320

Silly of me. The GP9RM was (I can't swear to it) the locomotive the pulled the 'glow train', ie the nuke train.

Back in the 1950s General Motors Corporation's Electro-Motive Division (EMD) built General Purpose (GP for sort & nicked named Geeps) road switcher units to replace the aging F-units the company built decades earlier. The first GP unit were designated GP7 and the higher horsepower version the GP9. Since probably the train was filmed in British Columbia it was probably leased to Legendary, and being in British Columbia, the locomotive is probably of the Canadian version of the GP9, thus a GP9R. GP9R's are the same on the inside as a regular GP9, the differences being on the outside with slight modifications (hand rails are angular). With today's EPA breathing down on railroads about carbon emissions, railroads can rebuild and upgrade older modes to comply with various Tier Emissions instead of buying more expensive models. The GP9RM in the film was an example of this rebuilding, probably to comply with either Tier 1 or 2 emissions.