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 Alex: You could base your DD40 kitbash on what UP did to create the DD40s... The DD40s are just two GP35s on one frame, and with different trucks. So, imagine if you strung 4 GP35s together, except each would be articulated seperately. If they shared trucks, that would be five trucks, and with each unit only as long as a GP35, it could handle almost any curve. Think of it like an impack intermodel set, except with locomotives... They can handle my curves without a problem, because they have each unit only being about 50 feet, instead of however many feet the whole 5-unit (or the 7 unit set on the WRS) set as a single unit.The impack truck sharing idea would work great as well, where each unit has a truck on one end (except for one of the ends), and the other end has something to connect to the unit there, on top of it's truck. I think four GP35s would be a whole lot more impressive than two DD40s, and it would give it the ability to go around much sharper curves than a DD40 set. There are less axles, true, (10 compared to 12) but that problem could be solved by substituting an SD9 for the GP35s![:P] Now THAT would be really impressive!
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