ALCO RS 36 hi nose

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Doe’s anyone know if an HO scale Alco RS 36 hi nose was ever produced, and by what company? Thanks in advance. R. Staller

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The Atlas LoNose RS-36 is the first plastic RS-36 ever produced, period. I don’t remember any brass ones, as a matter of fact I’m not aware of any prototype HiNose RS-36’s for that matter, but I could be wrong about that.

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The Nickel Plate had two high-nosed RS36s with steam generators (#869 and #870), and the N&W had high-nosed #407-412.

The only brass RS36 I see in Dan G’s Brass Guide is a model Key imported in 1986, and it doesn’t indicate whether it was high- or low-nosed. Seeing as how only eight out of the forty RS36s built were high-nosed, I’d bet it was a low-nose model.

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Although he does not have a web site at the current time, Tiger Valley Models is still in business, if you can find his E-mail Address he may be making the Hi-Hood RS-36. He made almost all the modern Alcos out of cast metal.

I could not find his E-mail address but, here is his Address and Phone Number.

Name: Tiger Valley Models
Street: 1070 County Road 23
Phelps, ny 14532-9769
Phone: (315) 548-9021

Rick

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Modelmaker51 has a scan of the Tiger Valley offerings at the “village photos” link in his signature. If I am reading it correctly, it looks like TV did make the high nose version. See for yourself http://img.villagephotos.com/imageview.aspx?i=24259029

Also, and email address is listed tigervalley@cnyemail.com

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A quick check on the 'net shows that NKP owned 2 high nose RS-36s (sans dynamic brakes) 874 & 875 and N&W owned six of them (with dynamic brakes) 407 - 412.

-George

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I stand corrected about the prototype high-nose RS-36.

A relatively simple kit-bash would be to use an Atlas RS-11 shell for the short high hood and splice it to the Atlas RS-36 cab and long hood.

The only way to reach Guilford Mack of TigerValleyModels is by the aforementioned snail mail address or phone, (best to call after 5 pm est, good guy to talk with). As Richard mentioned you can see TVM’s products List and Pricelist at my photo host link below in my signature.