Does Anyone Offer Norfolk Southern Hi-Hood SD40-2s?
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Oh, now that hurt.
I'll agree with the modern UP but classic UP engines look better than any black blob NS engine. A UP SD40-2 with those long porches and silver trucks are just way too classy to compare to an all black engine.
LOL, I received 6 UP sd40-2's snoot with 5 cabeese in a trade, and stripped, kitbashed them all to NS.
Sure is. I don't like the NS as well. The merger, in my mind, ruined the two best RRs in the country. But for a diesel scheme NOTHING and I mean NOTHING beats the classic tuxedo scheme on the Southern High Hoods!
Even a modern diesel looks better in formal clothes!
And thats coming from a primary Southern steam modeler.
EMD high short hoods as applied to the 35 line and Dash 2 locomotives only came in one length, 81 inches. Kato is also offering SD40-2s and the current run features ditch lights, but no high short hoods.
Athearn locomotives offered in recent years are easy to strip with 91% isopropyl alcohol. Just remove the shell and all electrical components and dunk in a container for about half an hour, then scrub with an old toothbrush.
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Cjcrescent
Master Mechanic
Other than brass, the only two current makers of SD40-2's are Athearn and BLI.
Both advertise high hoods, with Ath. having several HH lenghts, but all are painted SRR. Could not find any info on future roadname releases.
BLI is advertising 4 different numbers for NS but the model is still listed as "coming soon". How soon "coming soon" is, when BLI is concered, is anybody's guess. They have a poor rep for advertising a loco "coming soon" and it be years before it arrives, if ever.
Quickest answer would be to strip and repaint the Athearns, if you feel comfortable doing this. Probably would be cheaper as well as the BLI's, "coming soon", are advertised at $249.00.
Both advertise high hoods, with Ath. having several HH lenghts, but all are painted SRR. Could not find any info on future roadname releases.
BLI is advertising 4 different numbers for NS but the model is still listed as "coming soon". How soon "coming soon" is, when BLI is concered, is anybody's guess. They have a poor rep for advertising a loco "coming soon" and it be years before it arrives, if ever.
Quickest answer would be to strip and repaint the Athearns, if you feel comfortable doing this. Probably would be cheaper as well as the BLI's, "coming soon", are advertised at $249.00.
quakers1
The Blue Man
I'm comfortable with stripping and repainting the Athearn SD40-2s. I like to renumber alot when alot of one loco is called for in my roster. I buy a few of the same road number and then the locos hit the paint shops immediatly for weathering and renumbering. Since Athearn discontinued their NS Dash 9s, I might have to buy Dash 9s with a different livery and strip and repaint them. Don't sound too hard(considering I like painting).
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ThoroughBreed
Dcc~detail~diesel freak
If you can be patient, Athearn will release the High Hood in NS, usually the same road number as the Southern unit it replaces.
Last year Athearn released the 7000-7003 series GP40X high hood Southern units and then followed them with the NS repaints.
Last year Athearn released the 7000-7003 series GP40X high hood Southern units and then followed them with the NS repaints.
ThoroughBreed
Dcc~detail~diesel freak
Theres no external difference between the c44 and the c40, so make do with whatever you can find. I personally love to strip UP engines and repaint to a better road.
Theres no external difference between the c44 and the c40, so make do with whatever you can find. I personally love to strip UP engines and repaint to a better road.
Oh, now that hurt.
I'll agree with the modern UP but classic UP engines look better than any black blob NS engine. A UP SD40-2 with those long porches and silver trucks are just way too classy to compare to an all black engine.
ThoroughBreed
Dcc~detail~diesel freak
LOL, I just don't like the way UP absorbed all these roads and then to add insult, they do a heritage unit and royally mess up the color schemes. A SP black widow/daylight unit? The only unit that looks decent, in my opinion, is the DRGW one.
At least when NS did the 4610, for the southern heritage, they correctly painted the unit with green and gold striped.
I do own a Big Boy and a Challenger (D&H), but they are relacated to display only.
But I'm not picking an argument here, it's just my opinion.
At least when NS did the 4610, for the southern heritage, they correctly painted the unit with green and gold striped.
I do own a Big Boy and a Challenger (D&H), but they are relacated to display only.
But I'm not picking an argument here, it's just my opinion.
ThoroughBreed
Dcc~detail~diesel freak
Oh, now that hurt.
LOL, I received 6 UP sd40-2's snoot with 5 cabeese in a trade, and stripped, kitbashed them all to NS.
Cjcrescent
Master Mechanic
Oh, now that hurt.
Sure is. I don't like the NS as well. The merger, in my mind, ruined the two best RRs in the country. But for a diesel scheme NOTHING and I mean NOTHING beats the classic tuxedo scheme on the Southern High Hoods!
Even a modern diesel looks better in formal clothes!
And thats coming from a primary Southern steam modeler.
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OldGettysk
Running the MC & Buffalo
Gee and I always liked NYC's black scheme !
HaggisKennedy
Coal Shoveler
I think I have a BLI NS SD40-2 hi-hood. I think it was one of the original runs; can't be sure. I know I have the N&W, and Southern ones....
Kennedy
Kennedy
Alcomotive
Grandson of an ALCO Builder
Oh man how I miss out on this one?????
OK for the sake of argument ...all in FUN now.....just a tibit of info. UP did have the switcher in a black scheme back in the day before the Armour Yellow came about....
see... below....info provided by our very own guru Don Strack....
http://www.uphs.org/Dieselpaint.htm
here are some pics...
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=53928
Alco out!
OK for the sake of argument ...all in FUN now.....just a tibit of info. UP did have the switcher in a black scheme back in the day before the Armour Yellow came about....
see... below....info provided by our very own guru Don Strack....
1940
The first switchers were delivered in an all-black scheme with striping and
11 inch yellow lettering. The lettering on the cab sides was for "Serves All
The West" on the left (fireman's) side and "Road of the Streamliners" on the
right (engineer's) side, with the word Streamliners in red (UP 1000
initially had multi-colored Overland shields on both cab sides). All switch
locomotives delivered between 1940 and 1947, when the yellow and gray scheme
became standard, were delivered in the black switcher paint scheme. Included
were the EMD NW2s 1000-1075, Alco S-2 1036-1054 (later renumbered to
1100-1118) and 1119-1153, Baldwin VO-1000s 1055-1060 (later renumbered to
1200-1205), Fairbanks Morse H10-44 1300, and GE 44 ton 1399. Locomotives
were lettered with "D.S." prefixes on their numbers, denoting "Diesel
Switch", similar to the "M" character in the road numbers of the road's
Streamliner passenger motive power, which denoted "Motor".
The first switchers were delivered in an all-black scheme with striping and
11 inch yellow lettering. The lettering on the cab sides was for "Serves All
The West" on the left (fireman's) side and "Road of the Streamliners" on the
right (engineer's) side, with the word Streamliners in red (UP 1000
initially had multi-colored Overland shields on both cab sides). All switch
locomotives delivered between 1940 and 1947, when the yellow and gray scheme
became standard, were delivered in the black switcher paint scheme. Included
were the EMD NW2s 1000-1075, Alco S-2 1036-1054 (later renumbered to
1100-1118) and 1119-1153, Baldwin VO-1000s 1055-1060 (later renumbered to
1200-1205), Fairbanks Morse H10-44 1300, and GE 44 ton 1399. Locomotives
were lettered with "D.S." prefixes on their numbers, denoting "Diesel
Switch", similar to the "M" character in the road numbers of the road's
Streamliner passenger motive power, which denoted "Motor".
http://www.uphs.org/Dieselpaint.htm
here are some pics...
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=53928
Alco out!
RCH
Been Nothin' Since Frisco
EMD high short hoods as applied to the 35 line and Dash 2 locomotives only came in one length, 81 inches. Kato is also offering SD40-2s and the current run features ditch lights, but no high short hoods.
Athearn locomotives offered in recent years are easy to strip with 91% isopropyl alcohol. Just remove the shell and all electrical components and dunk in a container for about half an hour, then scrub with an old toothbrush.
jbaakko
Diesel Detail Freak
Awesome post, tad off topic for NS units, but awesome info!Oh man how I miss out on this one?????
OK for the sake of argument ...all in FUN now.....just a tibit of info. UP did have the switcher in a black scheme back in the day before the Armour Yellow came about....
see... below....info provided by our very own guru Don Strack....
1940
The first switchers were delivered in an all-black scheme with striping and
11 inch yellow lettering. The lettering on the cab sides was for "Serves All
The West" on the left (fireman's) side and "Road of the Streamliners" on the
right (engineer's) side, with the word Streamliners in red (UP 1000
initially had multi-colored Overland shields on both cab sides). All switch
locomotives delivered between 1940 and 1947, when the yellow and gray scheme
became standard, were delivered in the black switcher paint scheme. Included
were the EMD NW2s 1000-1075, Alco S-2 1036-1054 (later renumbered to
1100-1118) and 1119-1153, Baldwin VO-1000s 1055-1060 (later renumbered to
1200-1205), Fairbanks Morse H10-44 1300, and GE 44 ton 1399. Locomotives
were lettered with "D.S." prefixes on their numbers, denoting "Diesel
Switch", similar to the "M" character in the road numbers of the road's
Streamliner passenger motive power, which denoted "Motor".
http://www.uphs.org/Dieselpaint.htm
here are some pics...
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=53928
Alco out!
OldGettysk
Running the MC & Buffalo
You say Black I say White !!
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