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Model Railroading > More NTS Detroit picsDate: 07/27/07 21:38 More NTS Detroit pics Author: K8CNW Hi Everyone,
Here's a sneak peak at some new HO scale goodies from the show: -Athearn SD60M's & SD60I's -Southern SD40-2 Date: 07/27/07 21:41 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: K8CNW Date: 07/27/07 21:44 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: K8CNW -Athearn FP45's
-Athearn MP15AC - this looked to be the SP version with all the appropriate details -Maxi's - looked really nice! Lots of etched metal parts Date: 07/27/07 21:47 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: K8CNW Date: 07/27/07 21:55 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: toledopatch K8CNW Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > -new CPL's from NJ International. These looked > awesome! Except the colors are in the wrong positions.... Date: 07/27/07 22:23 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: prr4828 toledopatch: Wrong? How so?
K8CNW: Did NJ Int'l say when their CPLs would hit store shelves? Be neat to add a few to a module I wanna build. Pic: MX Tower, Cumberland, MD Dec '06. Sorry it's fuzzy ... t'was my first outing with the 30D. Aspects: Stop and Restricting. * JB * toledopatch Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > K8CNW Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > -new CPL's from NJ International. These looked > > awesome! > > Except the colors are in the wrong positions.... Date: 07/27/07 22:32 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: RAS take a closer look - the red lights form a vertical row, not horizontal as in your pic. The green lights form a horizontal row instead of vertical. The lunars are correct, which indicates that it's not just a case of the signal head rotated 90 degrees...
Oooops! -R Rick Selby Redmond, WA Pacific Northwest RPM Date: 07/28/07 00:38 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: markgillings I find the picture of the FP45 interesting. What's with the "nub" between the fuel tank and the rear ladder? Maybe these samples aren't fully Genesised yet.
Date: 07/28/07 02:36 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: mikey markgillings Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I find the picture of the FP45 interesting. > What's with the "nub" between the fuel tank and > the rear ladder? Maybe these samples aren't fully > Genesised yet. If it's the same nub I'm thinking of, I think it's a water fill location. It seems to appear only on the FP45 sample, which would make sense. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=103957&nseq=32 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=193425&nseq=2 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=70722&nseq=47 However, some of the Santa Fe's units seem to have lost it, or maybe they never had it in the first place. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=96278&nseq=37 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=75043&nseq=40 http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=59941&nseq=57 It doesn't look like any of the Milwaukee units had this feature. It is definitely correct for at least some of the Santa Fe units as-delivered though. Date: 07/28/07 03:18 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: Tony_Cook Could someone please take some pics of Bachmann's HO-scale Berkshire; Sharks; and E60CP Electrics?
Thanks! Date: 07/28/07 04:02 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: keysubdiv They never had red lunar lights and there`s no service platform on it. More junk. Also a CPL with a number plate on it would never display restricting using white lights in vertical position. More junk. Where do they get their info from?
twl toledopatch Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > K8CNW Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > -new CPL's from NJ International. These looked > > awesome! > > Except the colors are in the wrong positions.... Date: 07/28/07 04:08 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: keysubdiv looks like Athearn corrected the fat sidesill on the SD60M`s and I`s. Thank god.
twl K8CNW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Everyone, > > Here's a sneak peak at some new HO scale goodies > from the show: > > -Athearn SD60M's & SD60I's > -Southern SD40-2 Date: 07/28/07 04:16 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: keysubdiv Even if you rotated the head 90 degrees, then the yellow and white lights would be bass ackwards. Junk
twl RAS Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > take a closer look - the red lights form a > vertical row, not horizontal as in your pic. The > green lights form a horizontal row instead of > vertical. The lunars are correct, which indicates > that it's not just a case of the signal head > rotated 90 degrees... > > Oooops! > > -R Date: 07/28/07 06:30 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: Grande-Fan Wonder if Athearn will make the 4 EMD "BN" SD60MAC's?
Nathan Z. Date: 07/28/07 06:50 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: BN_FAN Extremely doubtful since these were chock full of unique details including a longer frame than the SD50/60 series. Stranger things have happened though, but I still think the chances are slim to none.
Grande-Fan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wonder if Athearn will make the 4 EMD "BN" > SD60MAC's? > Nathan Z. Date: 07/28/07 09:05 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: markgillings mikey Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > If it's the same nub I'm thinking of, I think it's > a water fill location. It seems to appear only on > the FP45 sample, which would make sense. Ahh, yes. I didn't go back far enough in time with the pictures I was looking at. I thought it looked awfully similar to the old shell mounting lug on the original models. Date: 07/28/07 09:28 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: Betsy Grande-Fan Wrote:
> ----------------------------------------------- > > Wonder if Athearn will make the 4 EMD "BN" > > SD60MAC's? _BNFAN Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Extremely doubtful since these were chock full of > unique details including a longer frame than the > SD50/60 series. Stranger things have happened > though, but I still think the chances are slim to > none. The SD60MAC and the SD70MAC share the same frame, so that "problem" is solved. I suspect the costs of developing a new cast-metal frame are substantially less than the molds for the shells. The SD60MAC is one of those very rare prototypes, so I would have to agree that Athearn would be unlikely to produce one. However, if they make the 3-window cab, someone could take that, a SD70MAC, and some time and come up with a very nice SD60MAC. And the good news is that Microscale already makes the decals! Date: 07/28/07 11:19 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: pmack Well, I waited long enough this time, at work the other day I milled a Tmotor frame for a SD60M shell but didn't get the whole loco done. Unlike the SD70MACs where I started cutting up a SD70M two weeks before the Kato announcemnt.
Date: 07/28/07 20:12 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: toledopatch keysubdiv Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > They never had red lunar lights and there`s no > service platform on it. More junk. Also a CPL with > a number plate on it would never display > restricting using white lights in vertical > position. More junk. Where do they get their info > from? You're right about that red lamp, though calling it a "lunar light" is incorrect. "Lunar" refers to the bluish-white color used on certain signals to display a Restricting aspect or sometimes as a come-on signal, not the position of the lamp. The lamps in that top-center position on B&O signals are actually plain white, not lunar white; others are either white or yellow. I've most commonly heard those perimeter lights on B&O signals referred to as pilot lights or satellite lights, though I don't know if either term is officially used by the railroad. Date: 07/28/07 20:32 Re: More NTS Detroit pics Author: K8CNW In response to all the concerns about the CPL's, I talked with one of the guys from NJ International today. He mentioned that the signals were pre-production & many of the details were not be completely accurate. They should be available some time this fall & possibly include a kit to add lunar lights in different locations. That addition wouldn't be available until the "standard" signals were well underway.
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