Well, I don't usually get excited about things but I'm defintely going to buy a pair of the SD45s as second hand power for the Canada Southern and maybe more if business picks up ie I get the layout working properly. If they're as good as the modern boxcars that SSA has brought us, we're in for a treat. cheers
----- Original Message ----- From: "dphobbies" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 5:31 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} SSA SD45 --- In [email protected], Danny Click <ndragon92@...> wrote: > > Ron, >  > 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? >  > Thanks for all you do for uS! >  > Danny Click >  > 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 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
