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QUOTE: Originally posted by uspscsx Sorry, but, no. Way too new for my time.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Darth Santa Fe QUOTE: Originally posted by uspscsx Sorry, but, no. Way too new for my time. Isn't that a GE ES44 in the bottom of all your posts?[:)] (maybe it's just too new for your layout[:)])
QUOTE: Originally posted by Loco Lenny Tower 55 is the plactic division of overland models. They Are taking advance reservations for the SD70ace. They are supposed to be ready for delivery/purchase early 2006.
Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern
QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409 QUOTE: Originally posted by Loco Lenny Tower 55 is the plactic division of overland models. They Are taking advance reservations for the SD70ace. They are supposed to be ready for delivery/purchase early 2006. True, but if Athearn or Kato made it, they would be cheaper. The prices of Tower 55 are about what one would expect from, say, Broadway Limited Imports. I wouldn't mind seeing a few good ones in N scale.
QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy I'd like to see an SD70M-2 made by Kato.
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
I know that tower 55 is making the sd70m-2 and ACe's
I would like to have half a dozen SD70ACe units in the various UP with the red sill stripe and UP heritage schemes (SP and DRGW). If the price was right, I could use a NS, CSX, CN, or KCS SD70 ACe or SD70m-2, as appropriate, as run throught power. I would really like to have a MRL SD70 ACe bit I cannot justify it since I have not heard of any reports of them leasing them out. I doubt they will in the near future since they seem to be the backbone of their fleet. I might be willing to buy one just for the display shelf.
My manufacturer preference would have to be Atlas. They seem to be the only company that can produce a model without some quality compromise. I saw the Tower 55 GEVO at the OKC trian show and the model was nice but I canot see spending that much money on a single locomotive.