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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2013, 11:14:56 PM »
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Have no need, do want.  :facepalm:

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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2013, 04:04:26 AM »
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Ohio Central has two that are always around Youngstown:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=61403&nseq=6
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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2013, 04:09:52 AM »
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Crap forgot I have my own photos of them:


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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #18 on: April 30, 2013, 10:45:58 AM »
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Don't need/want one, but since the hoods appear short, could the chassis be a starting point for a GenSet? hmmmmm.....
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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #19 on: April 30, 2013, 11:01:11 AM »
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Truer words, truer words. But don't blame the Canadian Mfg's, SW1500 was far rarer than the GMD1 up here.

Oh, I don't. I think it's a really cool thing. It's just perplexing and personally frustrating.

I wish we had a Rapido down here... (looks at Bryan and Matt...)

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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #20 on: April 30, 2013, 11:06:05 AM »
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Agree with Ed on this.  However, it it a neat looking loco.  Wouldn't mind having one for a short line. 

We have bitched and moaned about getting Alco S units and now 2 manufacturers are going out with them.  We have also done the same thing about the SW1500 and I know the manufactuers have seen our desires, so it wouldn't surprise me that sometime in the near future someone will produce it.  Personally I'm still waiting for a good old Baldwin road switcher.

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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #21 on: April 30, 2013, 11:38:14 AM »
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Oh, I don't. I think it's a really cool thing. It's just perplexing and personally frustrating.

I wish we had a Rapido down here... (looks at Bryan and Matt...)

Look at Matt.  No ESM motive power anytime soon.  8)
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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #22 on: April 30, 2013, 11:49:00 AM »
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I can only imagine how crazy an ESM engine would be.

I can picture it now, an N scale live steam version of Strasburg's 1187.

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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #23 on: April 30, 2013, 11:53:24 AM »
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Ed, I have a feeling it would be something located here:

https://sites.google.com/site/nynhhsteam/

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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #24 on: April 30, 2013, 12:08:15 PM »
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Hmmm.. When did the A-1-A's get retired?
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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #26 on: April 30, 2013, 02:17:33 PM »
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I think the A-1-A units still operate in the prairies.  I see photos of them switching in the Edmonton area.

On reflection, I think the choice is quite sensible, given a Canadian manufacturer.  What other Canadian units have not been done in resin or injection?  Porkchops, anyone?


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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #27 on: April 30, 2013, 02:19:39 PM »
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I could really think about getting an NAR unit, when they come out. Someone needs to do an NAR style bay window caboose to go with them, though, or, even better, one of the coach-cabooses.
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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #28 on: April 30, 2013, 02:21:44 PM »
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Don't need/want one, but since the hoods appear short, could the chassis be a starting point for a GenSet? hmmmmm.....

 I had the same thought.  I'd probably get one just to have - I seem to be gravitating to collecting interesting diesels.
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Re: N scale loco from Rapido under way....
« Reply #29 on: April 30, 2013, 05:35:47 PM »
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Damn, so fine.  But how often would one roam across the line wearing green and gold at Blaine and down into the Puget Sound or Northpoint and into Spokane?  Probably never.
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