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Post by cpr4200 on May 4, 2024 16:25:23 GMT -8
I wonder if Bowser has considered doing RSD4/5's with their updated RS shells? They have the trimount trucks, would only need to tool new sideframes with the single large brake cylinder. Would be nice to see the early, angular frames as on CNJ RSD4's as well as the usual smoother contoured truck. ~ Walt
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Post by jbilbrey on May 4, 2024 17:15:55 GMT -8
I wonder if Bowser has considered doing RSD4/5's with their updated RS shells? They have the trimount trucks, would only need to tool new sideframes with the single large brake cylinder. Would be nice to see the early, angular frames as on CNJ RSD4's as well as the usual smoother contoured truck. ~ Walt At one point, they had the RSD4's and 5's on the list along with the CNW "hammerheads" and other variants on a list of possible versions they were considering on their website. But, I couldn't find it on a quick search of their site. |
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Post by edwardsutorik on May 4, 2024 17:27:33 GMT -8
I'm sure all that stuff is on their to-do list. But I also think they're putting their energy into the C-415 for now.
I would surely love an RSD. I've got no "official" use for it--I just like them. It was my first "real" diesel model: a Hobbytown drive under their plastic shell. Still have it. Somewhere.
Ed
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Post by hudsonyard on May 4, 2024 17:28:28 GMT -8
I'd be perfectly okay with bowser making it's way through the entire alco catalog over the next 15 years or so.
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Post by lvrr325 on May 4, 2024 19:20:52 GMT -8
Supposedly the plan is to do all of them, or as many as they can before Lee retires/passes on.
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Post by GP40P-2 on May 4, 2024 22:28:52 GMT -8
Can't go wrong with an SP RSD-5 SP 2881 |
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Post by Baikal on May 5, 2024 4:51:15 GMT -8
Can't go wrong with an SP RSD-5 SP 2881
SP modelers would be happy. Same with ATSF, C&O, FcP, CNW.
Interesting how the southwestern roads went for RSD-4/5s but very few RS-2/3s.
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Post by pjm20 on May 5, 2024 8:49:11 GMT -8
RSD4/5s can also be made into slugs, albeit that would make them much more road specific, but Bowser has shown they are willing to go the extra mile on oddball variations.
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Post by cpr4200 on May 5, 2024 9:19:32 GMT -8
The only RSD slugs that come to mind are the Santa Fe's, mated to RSD15's for hump service, and PC's one that had an RS1 short hood and ran with an emasculated RSD15. Then there are the CR's built from RSD12's.
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Post by pjm20 on May 5, 2024 11:02:59 GMT -8
The only RSD slugs that come to mind are the Santa Fe's, mated to RSD15's for hump service, and PC's one that had an RS1 short hood and ran with an emasculated RSD15. Then there are the CR's built from RSD12's. Conrail had 29 MT-6 slugs built from RSD12s & 15s. |
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Post by fishbelly on May 7, 2024 3:41:14 GMT -8
A proper RSD12. Yum!
Brian
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Post by prr 4467 on May 7, 2024 8:12:51 GMT -8
Bowser has the RSD-4/5's in development. Lee has specifically said they would do them. I asked that specific question years ago before the RS-3's were made.
To date they have never mentioned anything about an RSD-12 or -15, and I doubt that they would step on BLI's toes with the RSD-15. Also, BLI has most definitely done so many runs of the RSD-15 that the market is very saturated with them; you can find those models at every train show (maybe not Cartier, but the others), so that means only limited remaining sales potential in an RSD-15, which makes it unlikely (not impossible) that another manufacturer would choose to do it. I would be willing to bet that somebody will introduce the SD40A before we see a newly tooled RSD-15, but that's my personal opinion and nothing more.
Not being as large a manufacturer as some others, they tend to focus mostly on the project at hand, which right now is the C-415. I think the last time I was actually there (in September, 2023) Lee had some RSD-4/5 samples on his desk, whether they were 3D printed bodies (slightly different from the RS units) or chassis samples, I do not remember.
They have actually produced everything they said they would produce, to date, so far as I am aware (excepting the GMD SD-40, which they still have on the backburner, but there are reasons they have not produced that particular model that are beyond what can be discussed on here). I have absolutely no idea if we will ever see the M-640; with only one prototype unit, it may the Alco that doesn't get done in plastic.
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Post by oldmuley on May 8, 2024 17:54:05 GMT -8
I'm still holding out hope for an RS20.  |
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