Bought this at an antique shop recently. It didn't scan too well...but it is captioned on the back side ..."New 3600 h.p. EMD SD-45 units on line at Northern Pacific's Mississippi Street Shop in St. Paul after checkout on delivery from General Motors."
*Sigh* Sure miss seeing those colors! Wouldn't it be great, if somehow one of these were preserved, operable......... Boxcab E50
I do realize that the GN unit, "Hustle Muscle," was preserved just due to that special promotion. But why not an NP unit? Well, I suppose it would be a while yet. Many are still in service today! There was just something about those big black NP SD45's. When you saw one, you knew they were powerful! Perhaps it was the paint scheme. Boxcab E50
I have one N Scale SD-45 and 2 in Z Scale that waiting to wear a coat of 3600. The NP SD-45's had a different nose than most other railroads, with that funny nose class light. I gotta figure out how to model those, as well as get rid of the cab sunshades soldered on my Z models. Later on BN applied them to the old NP units.
That gyralite on the nose is a dead-giveaway of NP heritage... A Gyralite on the nose is dead giveaway for Frisco as well, isn't it? Did SP's SD45's get a familiar light package on the nose?
Robert- I've seen a detail part made for those lights in N scale. But Z scale might be a little bit harder. Guess you'll need to add a casting business to your laser cutting? Boxcab E50
You made me look at the D&H SD-45's within the DHVM and I see what you mean. The below is one of three the D&H operated and they do not have that light package. Was there an advantage of one over the other?
