Modelling a Great Northern EMD E7

[Great Northern Fan 54]

My layout needs several EMD E7 in GN, unfortunately. I can't find any guides on how to build them, where can I find a good guide on building them?

[SeeYou190]

What kind of information are you needing?

Paint scheme, specific details, evolution through the years, or something different?

-Kevin

[DanRaitz]

Duane Buck had a modeling article in the July 1998 issue of Mainline Modeler.

 

[RR_Mel]

I built up three HO E7As and three E7Bs from Athearn Blue Box SD40-2 frames and used Cary metal bodies.  Terrific pulling power!



 

I swapped out the Athearn motors with Mabuchi FK280SA 14200 motors, each locomotive weighs in at a bit over 2 pounds and have over 9 ounces of drawbar using 580ma at wheel slip.
 




I use 1” Neodymium magnet speakers for tremendous sound.



Good Luck


Mel


 
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[Texas Zephyr]

Great Northern Fan 54

My layout needs several EMD E7 in GN, unfortunately. I can't find any guides on how to build them, where can I find a good guide on building them?

I ask the same question, what information are you needing, and what do you need to "build" that is not avaliable in existing models?   As far as I know they have been produced in every paint scheme (even the original goat in a red circle scheme) by several different (not counting brass) manufacturers (LifeLike Proto-2000, Walthers Proto, BLI).   Do you mean you are looking for super detail instructions?

[wjstix]

I have one of the Walthers/Proto GN E-7s, it's excellent right out of the box. 

E-7s were sorta/kinda a failure on GN, in that they bought them in the mid-forties to pull the Empire Builder but soon found they didn't do very well in the mountains, so bought F-units for the Builder and their transcontinental trains and farmed the E-units out to smaller 'flat land' trains like the Badger/Gopher, Red River Limited etc.

[Great Northern Fan 54]

SeeYou190

What kind of information are you needing?

Paint scheme, specific details, evolution through the years, or something different?

-Kevin

 

 

Specific Details

[mbinsewi]

You could do a search for GN's roster of E7's.  There are quite a few on here:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?id=GN

Page 2 has some.

There are other sources, like Fallen Flags, and Don's Depot, and you can also check out the GN Historical Society's site.

If you can find pictures, you can look for engine specific details.

I haven't heard of a site or guide for building and detailing GN E7's, specifically.  There might be some modeling info on the GNRHS's site.

I just looked at the Fallen Flags site, they have a list with pictures of just about all of the E7's that GN owned.

Mike.