FYI: Looking for HO SW7s?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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This may be old news to those of you who are MR subscribers but I found out today from my historical socieity that Walthers has advanced reservations available on some limited run Mainline SW7s in 6 roadnames. (Release date: Late May '21) Each roadname is being offered in both DC & DCC. The sound versions will be outfitted with “ESU(R) Sound”, which I presume is Loksound 5, or a paired down version of it. I don’t see an undecorated version offered with this release.

I have an undecorated non-sound Mainline SW1 that Walthers released a few years back. It has nice detailing, good weight for pulling, and is a very smooth runner. I expect the SW7 to be similar in all three categories.

I’m not a big fan of Walthers rolling stock but I’ve been quite happy with the few locomotive offerings that I’ve picked up from them over the years - going back as far as the original release of their SW1 in the early 90s. Good detailing and a great little puller.

FWIW…

Tom

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A couple of my favorite locomotives are a pair of those in Chessie System livery which my 70-something parents felt moved to give 50-something me for Christmas several years back. They are also not-DCC.

And yes, they drive nice! [:D] Of course the second thing I did with them (within more than moments but less than a day after opening their boxes!) was find out how to take the bodies off and put guys in the cab.

And given that …

And given that since my initials are SW I have arbitrarily and impartially decided that SW are my favorite diesels …

I may have to acquire a pair of those SW7.

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I saw Dana’s video on the announcment and the ICG example he showed looked great.

Ralph

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Their NW2’s are out. I have two and they are really nice.

I will get the SW7s when they are available.