does anyone make an ns gp40 high nose?

[Guilford Guy9887]

looking to make th 382 MEC which is in ns paint. does anyone make a gp40-2 high nose in ns paint?

 

[ICG/SOU]

I don't think so. The only GP40 high nose I've seen is the GP40X that Athearn did last year. I don't think I've seen a picture of a GP40-2 high nose either in NS or N&W paint.

I'd get a standard Athearn GP40-2 shell and add a high nose to it.

 

[bigB]

looking to make th 382 MEC which is in ns paint. does anyone make a gp40-2 high nose in ns paint?

Ive been looking for one of these too. Ive been hoping Atlas would announce one sometime, but that hasnt happened. If you look around, you can find the athearn GP-40X in HN NS.

 

[UP2CSX]

Nope, no HH GP-40's although you can get HH SD-40's. I think the Cannon #1101 high hood kit would be accurate and reasonably easy to graft on a standard GP-40-2.

 

[DanRaitz]

This is one of the easier kit-bashes.
Take 1 Atlas GP40 add the Cannon & Co. High-Nose kit #1101. And after a little cutting and splicing you have a NS HH GP40.

Now this is what model-railroading is all about!

Dan

 

[MGWSY]

Atlas did make a GP40 High Hood in Undec, Guilford, TAG, Southern, NS, and Norfolk Western so you might be able to find one out there. No GP40-2 High Hood has been made yet but I am sure that will change.

 

[Irongrave]

FYI MEC 382 is a GP-40 not a dash 2 so the atlas GP-40 NS would work just fine


note lack of water level sight glass

 

[Guilford Guy9887]

awesome. ive been trying to model some guilford trains in different paint schemes and this will probably be my next project after i finish my SD39 MEC- 693........

 

[DaWolf85]

I heard BLI was coming out with some Paragon2 models of these.
Not sure if they're out yet but I do remember them being on BLI's website...

EDIT: Here
Not unfortunately, it's an sd40-2, not gp40, but close enough that it'd be an easy kitbash.