Dear Ed,
Like it or not, for AM and ourselves, the AF comp. market is the
driving force. They are between 60% and 80% of our sales. Lionel
announced the SD40-2 with a big splash a few years back. This would be
the first new project that "L" tooled for the AF line. A few month
later, they dropped the project amid much criticism.
It takes us 3 years for all the steps of a project. I would suspect
the total cost for us on the SD-40-2 project would be about $200K to
$250K. It would cost much less for AM as they could use much of the
SD-60 drive. But, who would invest in such a project not knowing how
far "L" has progressed in research or tooling?
My early AM thoughts,
Don
Edward Davis wrote:
> Not being able to sleep at 3:00am this morning on the West Coast, I
> read an article about diesel locos that got me to thinking about our
> scale. Everything that I've read states that the EMD SD40-2 was the
> most popular and possibly the best designed diesel to date. If this is
> true, I'm curious as to why the loco has never been made by one of our
> three major S scale manufacturers. I know that Overland made a brass
> model, but a less expensive plastic model has not been offered as far
> as I can tell. I would think that this diesel would satisfy most of
> the early(?) diesel lovers as well as the more "modern" s gaugers. As
> far as anyone knows, has there been any discussion in the past about
> producing this diesel? Would there be a market for such an apparent
> popular diesel? Your thoughts( when you wake up)?
>
> Ed Davis
> Stockton
>
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