The U.P. only had 3 of them and they were the only ones made I understand!
I believe Overland made the C855s in Brass in HO scale. Expensive-and hard to find, but that’s the only option to my knowledge.
In case anyone wants to see what they looked like…
http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/44742
OK now what were the boxy looking bolsters along the handrails for? It looks like they were trying for a wall almost—[%-)]
The bolster along the handrails are the sand boxes. The EMD DDA40X had the same thing.
BELOW IS ONE FROM OMI (OVERLAND) IT WENT FOR $1250.00. THE ‘B’ UNIT WENT FOR $1650.00.
BELOW IS ONE FROM ALCO. ALTHOUGH NOT NEARLY AS DETAILED AS THE OMI MODEL BOTH THE A & B UNITS WENT FOR $1350.00.
Looks like you could kitbash this with a couple each of Athearn DDA40x’s & U28C’s + a few detail parts. My 1/2 of [2c] worth.
More like 2 C424 or C425s and some detail parts
The Athearn units are D-D’s not B-B+B-B’s like the C855 (and U-50B). You’d probably need to make your own frame from brass, use the trucks off a pair of RS-3’s and cobble the rest together by going to town on a pair of C-628 shells. Essentially, the C855 was a double C628.
I don’t personally recall seeing the C855’s as a teen, but I sure do remember SP’s U-50’s and DD35B’s. The DD35’s usually ran between a pair of GP35’s from what I recall.
SP U-50: http://espee.railfan.net/nonindex/u-50_photos/9950_sp-u50-yardclerk.jpg
SP DD35: http://espee.railfan.net/nonindex/dd35_photos/8401_sp-dd35-rob_sarberenyi.jpg
You probably could do the SP DD35 starting with a Bachmann DD40AX.
'Course, you could probably do the UP DD35A using the same starting point.
Andre
Those are sand resevoirs. Brass is your only option besides scratch building and/or kit bashing…
THanks for the replies and the pictures. it helped out a lot!!
Great photos , great locomotive, almost the next step to the U-50 (my favourite locomotive(diesel) too bad some of these monster locos were never saved.
The Alco Century series locos actually have two different styles of cabs.
The early type with the curved front door and windows (found on the C-420, C-424, C-425, and C-628)
The later type with the straight front door and engineer’s cab front window (C-430, C-630, C-636, and C-855).
The cab off a Stewart C-630 or a Tyco C-430 would be more suitable for a C-855 kitbash.
Those Alco models were the first I’d seen other than the Overlands.
The Century 855 is a favorite of mine too, but it was pretty much a disaster in the real world. The three units for UP (2 cabs, 1 booster) were delivered new in 1964 and were all out of service by the Summer of 1970 and all scrapped the next year.
I’ve never heard of any version other than in HO.