It's Spring, noticed any "b's" or "slugs"?

txronharris Feb 28, 2005

  1. beast5420

    beast5420 TrainBoard Member

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    this picture is about a month old, just got it scanned in:


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    taken on bnsf main, near se 60th in OKC
     
  2. txronharris

    txronharris TrainBoard Member

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    Thanks for all the cool pictures guys! Here are a couple more for you:

    BNSF 331 in Saginaw, TX:
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    BNSF 3965 from the cab as we rolled through Amarillo:
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  3. chessie

    chessie TrainBoard Supporter

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    Here's one for you:
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    Harold
     
  4. txronharris

    txronharris TrainBoard Member

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    Nice one Chessie!!! Those are some of my all-time favorties. Do you have any other shots of those? What are they exactly? I like the DB bulge on the end. definately got the "model this one" gears turning in my head. Has anyone else modelled these in n scale?
     
  5. chessie

    chessie TrainBoard Supporter

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    Yeah, I probably have a few in my vast collection of photographs (a shoebox). I don't think I have many digitals, but I'll check.

    The N&W made these units to to mate with their GP40's. They still ply the rails, mostly north of here.

    I remember seeing an article about kitbashing one of these in a magazine, but I think it was HO.

    Harold
     
  6. chessie

    chessie TrainBoard Supporter

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    Found it:

    Norfolk Southern GP40 #1372 & RP-E4D Slug #9730 - Part 1
    Model Railroading, July/August 2000 page 32
    ( DIESEL, EMD, GP40, KITBASH, "LESTER, ANDY", NS, SLUG, SUPERDETAIL, CONSTRUCTION,
    ENGINE, LOCOMOTIVE, PROTOTYPE, MRG )



    Norfolk Southern GP40 #1372 & RP-E4D Slug #9730 - Part 2
    Model Railroading, August/September 2000 page 50
    ( DIESEL, EMD, GP40, "LESTER, ANDY", NS, SUPERDETAIL, ENGINE, LOCOMOTIVE, PROTOTYPE, MRG )


    Harold
     
  7. chessie

    chessie TrainBoard Supporter

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    I guess in N scale you could do what the prototype did: start with a GP7/9!

    Might be good foddder for topics in the N scale and/or N&W forums.

    Harold
     
  8. Keith

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    A bit late, but saw this on April 15, while hunting down the Schnabel train the same day. Mixed in among several other locomotives, including a NS unit in Primer gray!! Doing some switching along Santa Fe Drive.

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