Hi,
I just learned that the old London & Port Stanley Railway had an EMD G12 locomotive, in addition to it’s electrified system.
Does anyone know if a G12 was ever produced in HO scale?
I do not know what scale these are but…
http://www.frateschi.com.br/produtos/g12_eng.php
Apparently about 1:78 scale?
What can be done to it: http://dieseldetailer.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=gen1&action=print&thread=316
And Black Diamond Models from Down Under show G12’s in HO scale: http://www.blackdiamondmodels.com.au/index.html
There is a model made for the Swedish market with buffers and details of the one sole engine that ran in Sweden. It is now discontuned and the company who produced it was the Norwegian company NMJ (www.nmj.no). It was available with GM.s own demstration livery aswell the livery of the (T42-class) Swedish National Railway. The model is expensive though. The prorotype is preserved today at the National Railway Museum in Sweden. There is a model in the rather odd scale of 1/76 or so scale by Fratesch (www.frateschi.com.br)
OP hasn’t posted to Forum in two years. For anyone who may be interested.
Hmm, wonder what’s going on back there around the prime mover that they have to put the dynamic grids in the short hood like that - looks very strange.
–Randy
There doesn’t look like there’s room above the engine (see access door height). I suspect this is a Very Little Guy. Note what they had to do to the cab. I’ll bet the crew has to keep body parts inside the cab in tunnels.
Also, it’s the New Wave to not have the dynamics over the engine. When’s the last new EMD that did that???
Ed
Yes, the G12 is quite small: http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1360421
As far as the original question goes, Hobbytec in Brazil makes resin bodies of the G12 in HO scale: http://www.hobbytec.com.br/paginas/english.php
EFVM has a track gage of 3’-3 3/8".
And some very interesting locomotives:
Note D trucks on what looks to be sort of an SD45
And here’s something a bit newer:
No D trucks there–4 B trucks with span bolsters.
Incidentally, there’s a guy who shows up every year at BAPM with locomotives for this railroad.
Ed
It very well might have been an SD45 in a previous life. The Brazilians imported a lot of used US locos and modded it for narrowgauge. This included such interesting locos as the SD40T2, along with other 40 and 45 kin.
Apparently not. It looks like EMD built them new:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_DDM45
Narrow gage is shore-enuff interesting, I’ll tell ya.
(I get to say that, 'cause I just recently bought my first, and likely last, narrow gage locomotive.)
Ed
The New Zealand Railways had 146 Da Class locomotives which were a 3’6” gauge model of EMD G12.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_DA_class_locomotive
on Flickr
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]
Ed,
Yes, the DDM45s were new built. But Brazil’s rapid expansion of its rail network in the last couple of decades led to many NG conversions of used locos imported from the US.This pic is of an ex-ATSF -45 converted to NG.
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/461709/
Lots more generally on these conversions in this thread:
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,100910,100910#msg-100910