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Post by peoriaman on Jan 25, 2022 16:24:18 GMT -8
I think this is the four-axle many of us have been waiting for:  |
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Post by TBird1958 on Jan 25, 2022 16:28:11 GMT -8
100% GP30 and GP30B
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Post by snootie3257 on Jan 25, 2022 16:32:45 GMT -8
I’m in for one each of the two GP30B variations. Steve |
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Post by TBird1958 on Jan 25, 2022 16:55:25 GMT -8
I’m in for one each of the two GP30B variations. Steve Hopefully they'll do some of the early paint schemes in our lifetime - One can only hope. |
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Post by middledivision on Jan 26, 2022 7:37:50 GMT -8
I'm preparing myself for disappointment.
We don't ned another niche, limited appeal locomotive.
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Post by sd40x on Jan 26, 2022 9:06:03 GMT -8
I would not complain at all if it was the GP59/60 as long as both are represented. But I’m still fingers crossed for GP30/30B and or GP35.
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Post by stevef45 on Jan 26, 2022 9:59:56 GMT -8
what emd GP series had nearly identical frames and truck spacing?
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Post by lvrr325 on Jan 26, 2022 10:14:17 GMT -8
what emd GP series had nearly identical frames and truck spacing? - GP7-9-18-20 - GP30-35 - GP38-40-50 |
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Post by fr8kar on Jan 26, 2022 10:23:17 GMT -8
I would not complain at all if it was the GP59/60 as long as both are represented. But I’m still fingers crossed for GP30/30B and or GP35. I would be a little nonplussed by this choice since Walthers, Fox Valley and Athearn already offer a GP60. A killer GP30 and GP35 would get my attention though. |
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Post by markfj on Jan 26, 2022 13:20:28 GMT -8
I’m wondering if the forecast for a “bomb cyclone” nor’easter will be a problem for people attending the show. Safe travels to all those attending!
Thanks Mark
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Post by riogrande on Jan 26, 2022 13:32:29 GMT -8
I’m wondering if the forecast for a “bomb cyclone” nor’easter will be a problem for people attending the show. Safe travels to all those attending! Thanks Mark It depends on how brave or perhaps unhinged people are. One thing I know, rubber tires slide on snow and ice - 4WD or not. |
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Post by lvrr325 on Jan 26, 2022 14:48:29 GMT -8
The current prediction from Accuweather is something like 18 inches of snow by Sunday AM with a high Saturday of 15 and winds up to 40 MPH.
I don't even want to think about what the parking lot at the Big E will be like once it's got a bunch of cars and there's six inches of snow around them.
I had to drive from Albany west in one of those bomb cyclones a couple years ago and it was miserable, they could not keep I-90 plowed, in fact the rest areas were not plowed at all. That one was heavier snow and not so much wind. Had I not had a posi rear in the van I would have gotten stuck somewhere, or I would have never left Albany and just grabbed a motel.
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Post by peoriaman on Jan 26, 2022 15:08:45 GMT -8
We still don't have the definitive plastic model of one of these things yet.... Whatever the heck it is.  |
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Post by Baikal on Jan 26, 2022 15:33:12 GMT -8
what emd GP series had nearly identical frames and truck spacing?
GP28/35 had two different types of frames. "Phase I" had "fishbelly" frames, "Phase II" were straight I beams.
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Post by SOMECALLMETIM on Jan 26, 2022 15:40:55 GMT -8
I don’t believe there were any phase II GP28s. I would like to see a high quality phase II GP35. Phase I GP28/35 would be much welcomed also. what emd GP series had nearly identical frames and truck spacing? GP28/35 had two different types of frames. "Phase I" had "fishbelly" frames, "Phase II" were straight I beams. |
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Post by champagnetrail on Jan 26, 2022 17:11:55 GMT -8
I’m wondering if the forecast for a “bomb cyclone” nor’easter will be a problem for people attending the show. Safe travels to all those attending! Thanks Mark Such is the risk of scheduling an event when major winter storms can happen. Every now and then, the big one will hit on the weekend of the event.
Don't give up just yet...the computer models have really been struggling with this one. Confidence and predictability at this point are on the low side across most of the northeast for the weekend. The exception would be Providence to Boston and out to Cape Cod. I see the NWS has already posted the Winter Storm Watch.
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Post by markfj on Jan 27, 2022 4:16:29 GMT -8
From the EMD Builder Photos FB page: Road: C&O 1845 Model: BL-2 Serial: 6280 Date: Feb 1949 Order Number E-994 Qty: 8 Units EMD Negative Number: 49-0778  Kinda neat if you ask me! I think there is one preserved at the B&O Museum in Baltimore. Thanks, Mark |
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Post by 690 on Jan 27, 2022 7:23:48 GMT -8
There are also four former Bangor & Aroostook ones left, with three running, or in need of minor repairs, and a fourth one at the Cole Transportation Museum, in Bangor, Maine.
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Post by gevohogger on Jan 27, 2022 7:59:24 GMT -8
We still don't have the definitive plastic model of one of these things yet.... Whatever the heck it is. Springfield Mass. is a little outside the territory served by the MBTA, but I could certainly see it as a likely venue to introduce such a model. |
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Post by GP40P-2 on Jan 27, 2022 11:37:45 GMT -8
Going back and rereading the ad, it just says the four axle that you have been waiting for, it doesn’t say locomotive. That narrows it down to just about any rolling stock.
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Post by NS4122 on Jan 27, 2022 11:41:37 GMT -8
While that ad doesn't say it, they've made it crystal clear that it IS a locomotive. Going back and rereading the ad, it just says the four axle that you have been waiting for, it doesn’t say locomotive. That narrows it down to just about any rolling stock. |
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Post by gevohogger on Jan 27, 2022 11:51:50 GMT -8
It's a locomotive, but it might not be a diesel.
Have we ever had a super nice model of a boxcab electric? Maybe they are taking a page out of Rapido's book and doing the CN boxcabs..... Perfect for modellers of all eras up to 1995.
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Post by brammy on Jan 27, 2022 12:51:02 GMT -8
It's a locomotive, but it might not be a diesel.
Have we ever had a super nice model of a boxcab electric? Maybe they are taking a page out of Rapido's book and doing the CN boxcabs..... Perfect for modellers of all eras up to 1995.
They do the Erie one and it is shut up and take my money. |
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Post by edgecrusher on Jan 27, 2022 12:53:49 GMT -8
CNW had some pretty neat boxcabs as well.
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Post by cera2254 on Jan 27, 2022 13:54:19 GMT -8
Could include all the new passenger engines in the boxcar list because, well, they look like a box. 🤣
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Post by peoriaman on Jan 27, 2022 19:42:27 GMT -8
MU cars have four axles.... We've never had a plastic South Shore car in HO, and these have been in service since 1982!  |
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Post by tillamook on Jan 28, 2022 9:27:49 GMT -8
I say again, Colorado Railcar.
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Post by Donnell Wells on Jan 28, 2022 11:56:35 GMT -8
MU cars have four axles.... We've never had a plastic South Shore car in HO, and these have been in service since 1982! |
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Post by slowfreight on Jan 28, 2022 17:59:38 GMT -8
Well, it's not a 4-axle...and haters gonna hate...but IHP said that the P30CH is coming!
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Post by csx3305 on Jan 28, 2022 18:55:28 GMT -8
What would be really hilarious is if turns out to be an E unit. With the prototypical four POWERED axles. Bwa-ha-ha.
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