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Post by loco8107 on Sept 16, 2024 13:28:06 GMT -8
Of course after I posted this, they post new roadnames on their GP38-2. Including Conrail OLS 7889. Which was a GP38. But Athearn did that too - in the blue box era, I think an SE set. Some guys don't care. It was an SE set- still can find on eBay too here and then |
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Post by tony on Sept 17, 2024 13:47:58 GMT -8
Believe it. Their Siemens Charger is damn near the nicest plastic HO diesel ever produced. That model is a chick magnet - seriously. Chicks dig it. At least the girls in California do. Might get one and put a pole dancer in this lighted area for special effects. |
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Post by milgentrains on Sept 18, 2024 11:35:34 GMT -8
I was finally able to get an Bachmann GE 45 Ton switcher at a good price. Any thoughts on this model?
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Post by wagnersteve on Sept 18, 2024 17:59:22 GMT -8
9/18/24, about 9:50 p.m., EDT
milgentrains, I bought a yellow and black unlettered Bachmann model of a GE 45-ton switcher years ago, because it was similar to one that I saw in use by a pre-fab housing manufacturer in Acton, MA, when minimal freight service was still being provided on what was left of a former New Haven branch to Lowell from West Concord, MA, I think possibly by Bay Colony. I think the loco was still wearing US Navy lettering. I found the side rods interesting -- I'd seen that feature on some locos in Europe years earlier, in the summer of 1976. I haven't run the model much and can't give good data on its operating characteristics.
In the late 1960s and very early 1970s I had seen a freight train led by New Haven Alco cab units in a simplified "Alpert" livery that passed through Framingham from somewhere on the NH's Shore Line mainline en route to Lowell and/or Salem.
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