I don’t think any of you have seen this yet. Pics of my SD80MAC and my SD70MAC. I haven’t been over here in a while…ENJOY!!!
Looking good!
Can you tell us a little about the Southern #7238 and #5164? Did you paint and detail them yourself or are they models available purchase?
These are certainly some fine looking models and I commend you on your accomplishment in this area but . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . but I tend to be very anachronism conscious; the Southern Railway disappeared into Norfolk Southern twenty-five years ago so, pray tell, why is that railroad still ordering diesels with Southern Railway lettering fifteen or more years later?
It’s a fantasy locomotive if NW didn’t merge with SOU…
Because they lease them to Norfolk Southern
RTP:
Consider it a creative anachronism.
Because he (for the Southern) and one other gentleman (for the New York Central) do astounding jobs with foobies. The Southern scheme isn’t quite as nice as the NYC lightning stripe, but it is still quite handsome (for diesels [:-^])
It could be protypical as a lot of railroads have been ordering equipment painted in “heratige” paint. The KCS is painting new locomotives in the “Southern Bell” passenger locomotive paint. Makes it tough on me as I love the Belle paint and my era KCS locomotives are painted white.
You missed Rock Island!
And yes, we all do live in the same city.
Both models are KATO units that the original paint was stripped off, and then repainted for Southern. I added a couple extra details KATO didn’t supply. I have 4 more models that are waiting to be painted for Southern as well.
Well you did a great job with the repaint and detail! [tup] [tup] I especially like the Southern paint scheme and you seem to have captured it well on the newer locos.
I like the “WHAT IF Southern still operated today theme!”
Thanks,
Ryan
Those are awesome. But you and your buddies ( I went googling for yas) have dun and gone gotten me another project for other what ifs…
might as well throw mine in as well
Missouri Pacific dash-9
Great job on the locomotives…SOUTHERN RAILWAY lives on.
I suppose that:
If I had a favorite railroad; and
If that railroad was a fallen flag; then
I might consider painting up some now units in then colors; however
I don’t; and
It isn’t; therefore
I can’t.
I have, however, given some thought over the course of the past few years to merging the 1960’s Milwaukee Road and Northwestern creating a Chicago, Milwaukee and Northwestern but, in doing such, I would find it necessary to create a completely new color scheme; I guess that is the factor that strokes my reluctance because Milwaukee and Northwestern colors - both of which were dynamic - don’t quite mate into a symbiotic color pattern. Awhile back one of the N-Scale magazines did a photo feature on a 21st Century Milwaukee Road using 1980s colors. It was impressive.
Anyway, I have opted to go the freelanced route and that gives a pinch to my creative genius! Dearly beloved, when you create a multi-page corporate history for a (fictitious) railroad and a locomotive acquisition and numbering system - beginning, I might add, with what the Seaboard and Western Virginia Railway’s steam fleet looked like on the eve of Big Brawl Two when it acquired it’s first Alco 1000 horsepower switcher - that is the ultimate fantasy!
That’s not the problem, the problem is they aren’t high hood and running long hood first. If you are gonna go, go all the way. 
Dave H.
These all look good and provide interesting “What Ifs”…