Model Railroading > Photo Request - BNSF ES44DC Late Model Radiator Grills

OK you roster/loco detail photographers out there, I have a request or a challenge if you want to call it that.

I am modeling a late model BNSF ES44DC, #7463 to be exact. I need detail photos of the exhaust grill/cooling panel for the flared radiator section on the rear of the long hood. There has ben a significant modification to this area compared to what comes with the HO scale model produced by the now defunct T55 group. I am thus fabricating this radiator screen by scratch out of styrene and etched brass. If you have any roof shots of this specific area I would really appreciate it. Roof photos of any BNSF ES44DC between numbers 7395-7504 and 7527-7604 will work. I am actually more concerned with what is under the first top screen as opposed to the screen its self so the best possible angle would be a straight down shot from a ped bridge or overpass or something.

Please help me out if you can, I'll continue to comb the internet searching also. Thanks!

Mr. MRL

Posted below is a model of a Tower 55 ES44DC highlighting the area of concern.

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This is all I could get online from a quick search - not so zoomed in kind of radiator "down-on" detail shots.. I am still sure I have a late phase UP ES44AC radiator down-on photo that shows the same new phase GEVO radiator design you are looking for. Will continue to surf through my storage drive...

(clicky and pasty)

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=848961
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=937184
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1247820
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1307742
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1311285
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1328224
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1360309
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1023178
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1247225
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1123341


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Thanks Ryan, I've been using the shot of BNSF 7443 you posted, and just found the same 7490 and 7539 shots. I'm now realizing just how rare a photographed area (at least posted online) this may be.

Mr. MRL

Well, we get our share of units at the shops here in Topeka. I'll keep an eye out for one underneath the Branner St. Viaduct.

- Jeff

if you go to the Overland Models site, click on the GE Evolution heading and click on the CSX ES44AC with steerable trucks heading, I think the photo of the radiator area shown may be helpful to you.

webercanyon Wrote:
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> if you go to the Overland Models site, click on
> the GE Evolution heading and click on the CSX
> ES44AC with steerable trucks heading, I think the
> photo of the radiator area shown may be helpful to
> you.


good find...


...BAM!!!

http://www.overlandmodels.com/images/trains/AA-1326_3.jpg

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man, that CSX tip sure paid off. Not quite as close as the OMI shot but here are some more!

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1019196
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1308053
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1360651
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1091101
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1049973

webercanyon Wrote:
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> if you go to the Overland Models site, click on
> the GE Evolution heading and click on the CSX
> ES44AC with steerable trucks heading, I think the
> photo of the radiator area shown may be helpful to
> you.


Holy cow, man! That is a fantastic photo showing the top screen and the cooling grid below. Behold the power of Trainorders.com! Thanks for the find webercanyon! A bunch of the other CSX photos are useful too.

Thanks again folks, the more photos the merrier.

Mr. MRL