a point missed here entirely, is that "modern" power like the u33c
and the sd70ace, are main
line power, so if your rr is not a mainline operation, modern power
is totally out of place, in
the real world (at least out here)where EdL, and dave and i live UP
uses sets of gp38's or gp40's
for their motive power, where i live we have two local runs, one is
powered by a set of 3 gp38's,
and the second one is powered by a set of 2 gp40's with an extra gp38
tacked on every now
and then, once every 3 months or so, will we get a pair of ac4400's,
and only once in the last 3 years did we get a 70ace up here, and
down where ed and dave live, it's the same story, gp38's
and gp40's, mostly because of the trackage, 90 to 115lb and in some
places 75lb, up here we
have either 136lb mainlline or 90-75lb spurs, and you don't run
modern locos on that trackage,
that's a reciepe for a disaster
mel perry
On Aug 17, 2012, at 10:05 AM, ctxmf74 wrote:
--- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@...> wrote:
> If the NS Heritage Series was announced, I would have to think
hard >about the NYC unit. Darn.... And I didn't even want to be
forced to >enter the modern era. Dang it all.
> With regard to the Lionel U33C, the 2012 version of that loco
will have a higher gear ratio making for slower top speeds. A nod
toward the scale modeler, I would assume.
>
Hi Ed, I guess the heritage units are appealing to collectors but
for scale modelers their being such a recent prototype creates the
problem of what to run with them?
The U33C in traditional railroad paint schemes however falls in the
time frame where lots of S stuff is suitable. American models and
Des Plaines make it pretty easy to model the 70's-90's era and
that's a good thing as the guys who grew up in those years are in
their modeling primes. I suspect the largest pool of potential
S scalers would be modeling the era right before the mega mergers
when their childhood railroads still existed. 1996 for SP or ATSF
fans for example. The few years after the mergers were also
interesting as the new and old paint schemes co-existed so there
might be some interest in the early 2000's years. Newer than that
and suitable rolling stock gets more sparse, even HO is just now
getting all the really modern era stuff.....DaveBranum
