As a true Southern Pacific railfan, I know that the “beloved” SW1500 was called a crud. In all aspects, the Micro Trains SW1500 is a think of beauty. These little gems are great switching locos, paint is sharp and crisp, I just wish that my weathering skills were up to the challenge of making it perfect. Thanks Smoken’ Joe for this great model. I seriously started to sing a Paul Simon song when I opened the package from Talent.
they were called "cruds" by railfans because they were killing off all the ALCo, BLW and FM switchers....the crews liked them...except for the minimal independent braking(2 shoes per axle) and no dynamics, they were used as transfer locos and there were spots where they could have used more brakes.
That is for sure Robert. Not sure if this "Pumpkin" Bremner is referring to is a BNSF loco or me in an orange shirt.....lol.
Pretty nice. I grew up with the SP mostly in northern California from around 1970 thru 1984. Of course the Kodachromes didn't come along until about 2 years later but I took the Amtrak CZ from Chicago to Sacramento in 1990 and remember seeing a bunch of Kodachromes for the first time in Sparks or Reno NV. Is the MT boxcar a foobie? Nicely rendered however. I think they are correct for D&RGW, http://www.railgoat.railfan.net/spcars/bynumber/box/sp659000-659052.htm These cars were rebuilt from existing 40' box cars of classes B-50-28 and B-50-33 by having their rooves raised and larger, taller doors applied for appliance loading. The work was done at Sacremento in 1964-65. The first conversion, 659000, was rebuilt from a B-50-28 car. The remaining cars were rebuilt from B-50-33 cars and received letter suffixes from A to F. The cars retained their original classes. I'll have to check if MT has done correct road names for that model, such as D&RGW, MILW, NP, CB&Q, BN and ICG
Love the song, I was 13 when that song was released. I know I'm showing my age. The EMD Flexicoil trucks have 4 shoes per axle. The only EMD truck I know of that only had two shoes per axle was the Blomberg Type M truck. When working as a hostler I didn't like the locomotives that were equipped with the Blomberg Type M trucks, they didn't stop as well as the Blomberg Type B and AAR trucks with 4 shoes per axle. I agree, the Micro-Trains SW1500's look great.
