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Okay, you are wrong!The Atlas / Rivarossi / Con-Cor / Arnold SW1500 was tooled from a preliminary EMD design. The Atlas unit was out for some time before the Paducah Spartan cab rebuilds were built. So they are actually models of the N Scale engines!!!!Charlie Vlk
I am also curious about "museum quality" ...
People haven't read all the hints, tricolor class lights? Nearly all ALCo/MLWs had them, I'm sure many people could come up with quite a few other ideas. The bearing caps where appropriate suggests a locomotive that was built during 1940-1960ish (I haven't got the facts to hand sorry!) so it's not something modern.
too bad it is a limited run loco that only ran for only 5 years
I remember this coming up on a previous thread maybe a year ago.And someone (might have been you?) actually produced the plans of the loco in question.It seems there was a time when models were hot and companies would work hard to be the first-- and make a model of a loco from plans- but the loco was never made. Best example in HO is the DD40 with regular cab. EMD offered it, plans were there- but none were made. But we have a model!
Couple of photos of the SW1500 plans are on Mark's web page for that loco
I believe those are the photo I had in this thread.https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=33805.0Jason
Did you actually look recently? I just checked and I suppose that the 2 broken photo links in your initial post were the said photos.
How about a P5/P5a? Or maybe E44?DD-1?
It also states "Our first scale train..." which implies this will be an actual train, not just a car or loco; like the Pioneer Zephyr.