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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by cwclark</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by SSW9389</i> <br /><br />Athearn made a GP40-2 and a GP60 in Rio Grande, never a GP50. Rio Grande owned both the GP40-2 and the GP60, never a GP50. To my knowledge Athearn made models of the GP50 only in the roads that owned them. UP inherited the 30 GP50s that Mopac bought, so yes there would be a Union Pacific model offered. There are numerous diesel rosters on line to check who owned what model of Geep[:I]. <br /> <br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by cwclark</i> <br /><br />GP 50's are hard to find because not many railroads used them..Athearn makes one, but for prototype operation, do some research first, because Athearn makes them in roadnames that never owned GP-50's and there's a good chance your railroad didn't own one either....I purchased one in a DRG&W paint scheme and found out later that they never owned a GP-50 so i had to strip it down and detail and paint it in UP armor yellow and harbor mist gray ...UP did own a few of them and one of the few that did own one from the southwestern railroads that i model....chuck <br />[/quote] <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />oh no?..here's pics of a GP 50 after I stripped the DRG&W paint from it and turned it into a UP GP-50...Athearn did make them in roads that never owned a GP-50. the first picture shows 2 Athearn DRG&W GP-50 locomotives in the background that they never owned before I stripped them and redid them in UP. <br /> <br />[img]http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b5db26b3127cce91c3e5f1752a00000016108AbN2jVi0ZuO[/img] chuck <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Chuck, nice custom paint job! However, is it just me or does that shell look like a GP60 with the angular dynamic brake intake. I do know that the post-anchutz SP had 3 GP60's in DRGW paint because the speed-letering scheme had not yet been developed.
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