Rio,
Several friends of mine have emailed the manufacturers for an SDP40f ( flat-nosed version, which made up the majority of Amtrak's fleet). Jump in and get your request in as well.
riogrande5761 Didn't Athearn make the GP40X? I'd love to see an SDP40F that I road behind in 1976 on the San Francisco Zephyr!
Didn't Athearn make the GP40X?
I'd love to see an SDP40F that I road behind in 1976 on the San Francisco Zephyr!
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
AntonioFP45 Rio, Several friends of mine have emailed the manufacturers for an SDP40f ( flat-nosed version, which made up the majority of Amtrak's fleet). Jump in and get your request in as well.
AntonioFP45I'd love to see an SDP40F that I road behind in 1976 on the San Francisco Zephyr!
Didn`t Athearn make and SDP40F years ago?
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
rdgk1se3019 AntonioFP45 Rio, Several friends of mine have emailed the manufacturers for an SDP40f ( flat-nosed version, which made up the majority of Amtrak's fleet). Jump in and get your request in as well. AntonioFP45I'd love to see an SDP40F that I road behind in 1976 on the San Francisco Zephyr! Didn`t Athearn make and SDP40F years ago?
Athearn just painted up their FP45 to look like a SDP40F, it had no relation to an SDP40F other than it had a cowl body and was C-C trucked.
My wishes for diesels are as follows.
GP49 (Alaska Railroad)
Any Baldwin AS-16 or AS-616 with the higher hood than Bowser offers which were purchased by both the NKP and PRR.
Baldwin Baby Face Covered Wagon.
Alco T-6 Transfer Switcher.
By the way as ugly as the Baldwin brick on a flat car look for diesels was, it still looks better than the EMD SD70 series.
Rick J
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After skimming the 5 pages I am wondering, aren't most of these from the '50s to 70s? No wonder we see everyone making GP7s and 9s.
Richard
It´s soooo about time to release a 6-wheel-trucked PRR BP-20 Sharknose A-B-A Unit (Baldwin DR-6-4-2000) in Tuscan Red with 5 stripes and double headlights in H0 scale!!! They´re sooo beautiful and would surely look great in front of every PRR passenger train from that era, and especially the Walthers Broadway Limited!
OK, being a western modeler, I vote for:
GE U25C, specifically in CB&Q (and perhaps its "cousin", the U28C)
UP SW10 - really just a new shell on an SW9 chassis. Watlthers could do it easily.
EMD TR5 - the "cow-and-calf" version of the SW9 - Walthers already has most of the tooling right now.
EMD E5 for the CB&Q fans - Kato has a nice one in N scale
SD70M with "flared" radiators in HO
GP38-2s in "plain jane" UP colors - no wings, no lightning bolts, etc.
Who knows what "odd" locomotives might end up being made? There was a time I never believed that I would have nice RTR models of the GP40X, the RSC2, the SDP35 or UP GTELs, so there is always hope!
I will second U28, four axle and six axle forms, and an SD35 with high short hood.
HO CSX YN2 B36-7 #5840 and HO AMTRAK Phase V P42 #177
GE c39-8,b32-8 & c32-9.
My best loved engines are:
AC4400CW Kato or Athearn
SD40-2 and SD40T-2
Dash 8 40C and C30-7!!
Saludos
Tonatiuh
SDL-39 = Kaslo Shops kit
I don't know if they're still available, but I have two on my shelf that I intend to build as Rio Grande units.
However, don't know when I'll get around to them. They are just about my favorite diesel ever based on looks, although I'm also partial to the DL-535E...
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
It would also be cool to see a re-run of some RS-3s in some shortline schemes
Beach Bill rdgk1se3019. Maybe some of the smaller builders smaller "critters".......Witcomb center cab switchers, Porter 4 wheel loco`s.....and the like. I agree with Dennis. Those old Whitcomb center-cabs look great in industrial settings. Quite a few were made for the military in WWII and then were sold to a variety of short lines or industries. They just look "gritty" before they even get weathered. Here's a 65-ton, built in 1944, that was on the Maryland Midland: Bill
rdgk1se3019. Maybe some of the smaller builders smaller "critters".......Witcomb center cab switchers, Porter 4 wheel loco`s.....and the like.
Maybe some of the smaller builders smaller "critters".......Witcomb center cab switchers, Porter 4 wheel loco`s.....and the like.
I agree with Dennis. Those old Whitcomb center-cabs look great in industrial settings. Quite a few were made for the military in WWII and then were sold to a variety of short lines or industries. They just look "gritty" before they even get weathered. Here's a 65-ton, built in 1944, that was on the Maryland Midland:
Bill
If you are into N scale these are available as resin kits from http://www.randgust.com/prod03.htm
The below in plastic by ATLAS or Athearn with sound as option (sountraxx)
The LIMA 1000 or 600 HP yard switcher (to date only done in brass)
The LIMA 1200 HP road switcher (not done in brass or plastic yet)
Ther LIMA Center Cab transfer
The ALCO T-6 yard switcher
The ALCO C 415 switcher
The EMD SW 1001 Reading, CR, CR dog pound, CSX (two color schemes), NS, other class 1's and numerous short lines, how has this one been missed?
Just my 2 cents.
Not locomotives, but:
Brandt Roadrailer, any generation, but would probably need to be a version with a drom box to hide the motor.
Ballast regulator, North American model, preferably 1980s vintage.
Speed swing, preferably 1980s vintage.
I don't know if it had been made before but I surely would like to see... and buy a GMD1 in CNR livery during the steam to diesel transition era (yellow & green). I am also waiting for a rerun of a RDC1 in the same color scheme.
Guy
Modeling CNR in the 50's
If I did modern era (1980`s to today) I would like to see.....
P30CH (Amtrak)
GP40PH-2 If I`m not mistaken these had a GP cab with a F40PH carbody. (New Jersey Transit)
GP40FH-2 And I think these had a wide cab (from F45`s ???) with SD45 flared radiators. (NJT)
Does it HAVE to be a Diesel?
My vote goes to the PRR Electric E-44 in Dark Locomotive Color (Brunswick Green), and Penn Central and Conrail (I'm pretty sure some made it to C-R.)
Bachmann did a E-33 years ago but I think it's time for somebody like BLI or Kato to step up!
In the internal combustion wishes I'd like to see an Amtrak SDP40-f.
Well, lets just say I'm glad Intermountain is making an HO Scale GP10 in CCP paint.
:D
I'd love to see a respectible FA unit. Not an F3, or an F7, but the plain-jane FA. And an FB. I know Bachmann has them, and Walthers did a run of them some years back, but I'm talking lighted number boards, sound, etc.
I also wouldn't mind an Amtrak F40PH from Rapido.
I would really like to see an NCDOT locomotive.
Plus undecorated locomotives like an SD70ACe
And is it toomuch to ask for a GP40.
SW1 in "N" scale
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.
Soo Line fan I want this released again.........................
I want this released again.........................
Haha...I always thought that was kinda unique also. Got me interested in C-Liners after I saw that.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
EMD SW1001. Locomotive that was sort of kit-bashed together to sell to railroads that couldn't fit a new SW1000. I believe the 1001 actually outsold the 1000.
In HO, I believe Atlas produced this some time ago, but I'd like to see a Trainmaster in Erie livery, or in the original Erie black and yellow paint job with the "Erie-Lackawanna" (hyphenated name)
My list, in order of probablility of being made:
EMD Late phase SD9 (very similar to an SD18)
Alco C415
EMD SDP40
GE B30-7A
GE SL144
EMD NW5
GE C30-7 (I'd rather Atlas update theirs, I don't like BLI's forced electronics)
GE B32-8
GE B39-8E (the LMX things, I don't recall if the Atlas B40-8 is right for them)
Wait, why is a 2 year old thread brought back?
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
EMD
F2A, F2AB (both powered), B&M
F3A units MEC. F3 AB units B&M
B&M E8 #3821
NW2 B&M
ALCO
MEC RS-2s, RS-3s
B&M S-5s
GM-EMC
SC (B&M)
All in HO scale
Hello all,
Any GP-B unit.
More specifically GP-30B.
"Uhh...I didn’t know it was 'impossible' I just made it work...sorry"
In N scale:
SD70ACe undecorated - Kato & Fox Valley
ES44AC undecorated - Kato & Fox Valley
Krauss Mauffei ML4000 (I have one resin shellm fits the Kato SD40 drive)
Alco C643 Diesel Hydraulic
GE Turbines
U36C
Ira