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Post by sd80mac on Jan 24, 2024 7:32:41 GMT -8
Scaletrains' website is showing an, as of now, empty page this morning for an HO Rivet Counter GP40. Hopefully this means GP38s in the future!
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Post by edwardsutorik on Jan 24, 2024 7:48:40 GMT -8
Here's hoping, on both counts!
Ed
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Post by SOMECALLMETIM on Jan 24, 2024 7:54:31 GMT -8
The GP40 isn't listed on the page under HO scale locomotives anymore (if that is where it was where you saw it). Maybe I am looking at the wrong place.
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Post by packer on Jan 24, 2024 7:57:56 GMT -8
So doesn’t this make 2 or 3 GP40s around the same time? Is the GP40 the next GEVO/F-unit?
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Post by trainboyy on Jan 24, 2024 8:54:56 GMT -8
Scaletrains' website is showing an, as of now, empty page this morning for an HO Rivet Counter GP40. Hopefully this means GP38s in the future! Can you send a link? Even if they already reversed the page, I want to see what the link was just for archival reasons. |
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Post by TBird1958 on Jan 24, 2024 10:00:20 GMT -8
Choices, lots of choices it should be quite interesting to see what 3 different manufacturers do with it.
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Post by gevohogger on Jan 24, 2024 10:03:51 GMT -8
The irony being, a 1998-vintage Atlas GP40 will be the only one with 100% perfect handrails, no crooked parts and no glue blobs.
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Post by TBird1958 on Jan 24, 2024 10:24:38 GMT -8
The irony being, a 1998-vintage Atlas GP40 will be the only one with 100% perfect handrails, no crooked parts and no glue blobs. True, but that cab and Fuel tank...... |
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Post by gevohogger on Jan 24, 2024 10:25:48 GMT -8
The irony being, a 1998-vintage Atlas GP40 will be the only one with 100% perfect handrails, no crooked parts and no glue blobs. True, but that cab and Fuel tank...... Right, but I wasn't going to go there. |
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Post by tillamook on Jan 24, 2024 10:29:45 GMT -8
Choices, lots of choices it should be quite interesting to see what 3 different manufacturers do with it. Perhaps that’ll make some of the manufacturers eager to choose second or third hand users as a prototype. I’d be in for PNWR 3001 or 3002 or some St. Lawrence units, but I guess they won’t come out before I finish my builds. |
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Post by cera2254 on Jan 24, 2024 11:25:23 GMT -8
The irony being, a 1998-vintage Atlas GP40 will be the only one with 100% perfect handrails, no crooked parts and no glue blobs. True, but that cab and Fuel tank...... Isn’t there an issue with the step Wells, or am I mistaken on that? |
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Post by surlyknuckle on Jan 24, 2024 12:05:57 GMT -8
True, but that cab and Fuel tank...... Isn’t there an issue with the step Wells, or am I mistaken on that? Yes; the steps are too shallow. I believe this was done for them to be able to tool the steps as see-through. The steps are too shallow so they don't over lap. I am REALLY looking forward to a ST GP40 in B&O/C&O/WM/Chessie. |
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Post by timvanmersbergen on Jan 24, 2024 12:32:20 GMT -8
Out of all three, I would hope to see at least one undecorated.
Actuarial tables are not in favor of me waiting for all the versions I'd like otherwise.
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Post by TBird1958 on Jan 24, 2024 13:23:52 GMT -8
Out of all three, I would hope to see at least one undecorated. Actuarial tables are not in favor of me waiting for all the versions I'd like otherwise. Hittin' the nail on the head!  I'll be sucking food out of a tube in the old folks home by the time this stuff hits the shelf! |
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Post by TBird1958 on Jan 24, 2024 13:53:42 GMT -8
Isn’t there an issue with the step Wells, or am I mistaken on that? Yes; the steps are too shallow. I believe this was done for them to be able to tool the steps as see-through. The steps are too shallow so they don't over lap. I am REALLY looking forward to a ST GP40 in B&O/C&O/WM/Chessie. You know ST, they'll make a CSX Road Slug before they do any '60s or '70s stuff |
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Post by riogrande on Jan 24, 2024 14:37:07 GMT -8
Yes; the steps are too shallow. I believe this was done for them to be able to tool the steps as see-through. The steps are too shallow so they don't over lap. I am REALLY looking forward to a ST GP40 in B&O/C&O/WM/Chessie. You know ST, they'll make a CSX Road Slug before they do any '60s or '70s stuff Once upon a time it was standard practice to do as-delivered first. Now things are not so. As an SP fan from long ago, I've always wanted the common SP SD45 with L windshield. No one yet has offered in in a Genesis/ST Rivet Counter version to date. ST did the first order SP SD45, a rather small order compared to the rest and the rebuilt but still no much more common SP SD45. But I digress. I have it on good word at least that ST is going to be doing the D&RGW SD45 which should be announced early this year. |
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Post by unittrain on Jan 24, 2024 15:43:10 GMT -8
I hope this is so I need almost a dozen GP40s as I model some early PC, Conrail and Chessie. Class One has there's coming too they're doing Conrail and B&O so probably won't see those roads in the ST first run. Hope to see NYC and PC.
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Post by Colin 't Hart on Jan 25, 2024 4:10:09 GMT -8
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Post by gevohogger on Jan 25, 2024 5:34:19 GMT -8
Yes; the steps are too shallow. I believe this was done for them to be able to tool the steps as see-through. The steps are too shallow so they don't over lap. I am REALLY looking forward to a ST GP40 in B&O/C&O/WM/Chessie. You know ST, they'll make a CSX Road Slug before they do any '60s or '70s stuff LOL Yeah, a road slug, a KB&S deturbo'd version, maybe a weird export model with different trucks.... If we're lucky maybe one "regular" GP40. |
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Post by unittrain on Jan 25, 2024 5:36:13 GMT -8
If I remember right they accidentally showed a new locomotive before the official announcement not too long ago and temporarily hid it again.
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Post by riogrande on Jan 25, 2024 7:04:11 GMT -8
Did anyone catch road-names during the brief period it was up?
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Post by gevohogger on Jan 25, 2024 8:20:21 GMT -8
Did anyone catch road-names during the brief period it was up? I didn't see Rio Grande on the list, in case that's what you were wondering. |
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Post by fishbelly on Jan 25, 2024 8:51:16 GMT -8
Maybe ST bought Class One Model Works?
Take note. The Class One Model Works GP40 has not been seen or heard of since it was shown at the 2022 National Train show in St. Louis. Also it was removed from their web site some time ago. Leads me to believe ST scarfed it up to put it in their line.
Brian
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Post by riogrande on Jan 25, 2024 9:15:15 GMT -8
Did anyone catch road-names during the brief period it was up? I didn't see Rio Grande on the list, in case that's what you were wondering. I figured that, but thanks for confirming. |
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Post by carrman on Jan 25, 2024 9:17:36 GMT -8
Did anyone catch road-names during the brief period it was up? MILW, IC, Conrail or so I was told. Dave |
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Post by cemr5396 on Jan 25, 2024 15:22:44 GMT -8
Did anyone catch road-names during the brief period it was up? MILW, IC, Conrail or so I was told. Dave 3 road names, that's it? There's got to be more, they just caught the mistake of having the page on public view before they finished adding stuff. |
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Post by delta767332er on Jan 26, 2024 0:14:52 GMT -8
Maybe ST bought Class One Model Works? Take note. The Class One Model Works GP40 has not been seen or heard of since it was shown at the 2022 National Train show in St. Louis. Also it was removed from their web site some time ago. Leads me to believe ST scarfed it up to put it in their line. Brian Chuckle. No. |
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Post by sd80mac on Jan 26, 2024 8:37:03 GMT -8
Maybe ST bought Class One Model Works? Take note. The Class One Model Works GP40 has not been seen or heard of since it was shown at the 2022 National Train show in St. Louis. Also it was removed from their web site some time ago. Leads me to believe ST scarfed it up to put it in their line. Brian Class One has commented on their own GP40 many times recently on social media. They said they should have pre-production samples to show sometime this spring. |
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Post by middledivision on Jan 26, 2024 8:56:44 GMT -8
ST could be in their second run of GP40's before Class One gets their version out.
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Post by riogrande on Jan 26, 2024 9:56:47 GMT -8
Time will tell.
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