Hello!
A little trivia for some of you on a new project!
It’s an EMD SD40-2 Frame and Cab with HTC-R trucks, the 16-710G3A, and it’s got SD70MAC Flared Radiators and the body reaches the ends of the frame
What am I (make an assumption!)
Its not complete though!
It’s whatever YOU say it is. It’s all make-believe.
It’s a defective attempt to build a SD70MACH using an unsuitable frame and throwing out most of the 70-series electronics. I don’t think you can cavalierly sling HTCR trucks under a SD40 the way you could by switching toy sideframes.
No, but he could try an HT B-B…
Better yet, he could try two of them as intended. But as you note he’d be better with an SDP45 frame than an SD40…
Maybe he could dig up an old IC SD40A? I wonder if any of those odd beasts are still around? I remember catching one in Springfield, IL back in the early 90’s. Looked ginormous.
Ask the Interwebs a question and it usually has an answer - IC 6014 is still around.
A mix of spare parts to satisfy a railroad’s cheapskatery? That’s my guess. Designation wise, I gots a nothing! 
That gets him the SD45 frame… but not as impressive as the SD70 he says he got the 710G3 engine and the long hood from.
And the SD45, too, has different truck mounting from HTCRs…
Just do mods for the SD70MACH and put heritage schemes on it. Of course I’d rather see the treatment done to an SD70ACU…
That much is clear!
It’s obviously a steam locomotive! (joke)
