--- In [email protected], Danny Click <ndragon92@...> wrote:
>
> Ron,
> Â
> There is at least one person on this list that is execited about the SD-45
> project. Can you provide some details to the list about your plans,
> features, RTR, DCC Ready, ect...for the locomotive?
> Â
> Thanks for all you do for uS!
> Â
> Danny Click
> Â
> A strong SSA supporter be it China, USA or anywhere else made.
Danny,
The following is my response to someone trolling the list for "a friend"
looking for the ideal project to make a killing in S. Don't know what happened
to him or his friend. As I am sometime painfully reminded, stuff happens.
Anyway it is message 59059 on this list. I think my comments exhibits exactly
what I am attempting to accomplish. You have seen the results so far. More
parts are done than Dons' photos show.
That is what little I know for now. Back to decal art.
Ron Sebastian
My Vote, was SD-40 etc., engines
Bob,
Have your friend jump in where the water is deep and spend his/her(?) money on
spec and make something/anything. I can't remember AM or SHS announce a project
and then go fishing for reservations to secure its manufacture. That is usually
the domain of very narrow special interest groups trying to get their pet
projects done. Outside of S Scale, when a manufacturer announces a project,
significant money has usually been spent and the project is well along in the
productiuon cycle. Reservations are for final production quantities, not to
insure its production viability ie; go or no go.
Having said that I would like to cast my personal vote that the SD45 be
considered. It's over 40 years or so ago that Athearn released their HO one so
it is about time for S Scale to have one. Dash 2's hadn't been invented then,
so they shouldn't be considered. Every major railroad east and west of the
Mississippi had them including Bill Lane's Mighty Pennsy. The only exception
was the under water level route and they got to use them after the great Penn
Central merger. I'm sure every ACL, Reading, Erie Lackawanna, Burlington,
Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Pennsylvania and SP fan would like a couple or
so. You can't paint any of those on an SD40-2. Oh, and if your friend decides
to do any EMD loco, make sure he includes the dynamic/non-dynamic option,
especially for the SD45. He'll make someone very happy.
If your friend won't go for the 45, I guess the 40-2 would be OK. Maybe your
friend can go to Lionel and get their material for the SD40-2 project that they
cancelled several years ago.
Now that we have that out of the way, lets get to specifics. Make sure it has
see through fans, metal handrails/stanchions, brass horn, prototype specific
details, cab interior, seperate grabs, and is capable of AC/DC/DCC and TMMC with
and without sound. additionally, it will need easily exchanged scale and Flyer
compatible wheels as well as link, knuckle, Kadee and Sergent compatible
couplers. Got that?
Ron Sebastian
Des Plaines
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