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<p>I remember as a kid, thumbing through Model Railroader mags, and near the front, seeing a two page ad crammed with tiny pictures of stuff for sale from some wholesale hobby house.</p><p> </p><p>One DRAWING that always grabbed my attention almost as much as a naked woman would have, was of a diesel with a chop nose, and with two six wheel trucks...so it'd be a "GP or SD something" right? </p><p> </p><p>What set it so apart from all the other pictures of its type, was the very small space between those two sets of trucks--so it almost looked like it was ALL WHEELS underneath.</p><p> </p><p>Do not ask me why this struck me as so "sexy" (I'm sure some psychologist would have a field day over that) but sadly I didn't have the funds back then, to BUY whatever diesel that was, in spite of how its price was only something like EIGHTEEN DOLLARS. My memory has it as an ATLAS product, in HO (of course, its not available anymore, and seemed to disappear from those ads, around 1965)</p><p> </p><p>But: for curiosity sake, does anyone know which diesel would fit such a description? Could there even be a "well seasoned" modeller in here, who OWNED one? </p><p> </p><p>{edited shortly after: I googled "parts of a diesel locomotive" so I could see what it is, that hangs down between the front and rear trucks--being the fuel tank, which no doubt all of you already knew, but I didn't--so it is THIS that is extremely compact, on whatever diesel this inquiry is about. Most often that portion is at least as long as the truck frames, but in this case, only about HALF as big.} </p>
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