QUOTE: Originally posted by cwclark I disagree with the GP 60 theory you guys are looking at...Do you see the hole in the side of the shell between the "n" and the "i" of "union" near the radiator grills?....the GP 50 was the only shell to do that, the GP 60 had wider radiator grills, and if you're going on the dynamic brake alone then you might want to take a closer look..the GE dynamic brake was standard on most second generation EMD diesels, also, it's a photograph optical illuision..the dynamic brake intake is as square as a picture frame if you saw it close up in RT .....besides that...I purchased them as 2 brand new Athearn DRG&W EMD GP 50's from discounttrainsonline.com only three years ago..a locomotive never owned by the DRG&W......chuck
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QUOTE: Do you see the hole in the side of the shell between the "n" and the "i" of "union" near the radiator grills?....the GP 50 was the only shell to do that
QUOTE: Originally posted by SSW9389 Shell is an Athearn GP60. The dynamics give it away, good catch Jarrett.
QUOTE: Originally posted by cwclark QUOTE: Originally posted by SSW9389 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]. QUOTE: Originally posted by cwclark 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 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. chuck
QUOTE: Originally posted by SSW9389 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]. QUOTE: Originally posted by cwclark 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
QUOTE: Originally posted by cwclark 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
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