Viewing the Amtrak Photo Archive, reminded me on a very good article in the MR November issue. This article gives a guide of all passenger diesels from the various builders from the early DL’s, E’s and F units to the present Genesis series. It also provides information on the various models and what is available in the different scales.
I find it informative for those modeling or collecting passenger diesels.
Yeah, but it missed the Baldwins…
Matthew
And it didn’t include much that wasn’t American (ie: Canadian). [:(]
I know MR is an American magazine; but they should realise that they have many subscribers from other countries who would love to see more information about non-American rail companies.
I didn’t know that any of the Baldwin passenger locomotives had been manufactured other than brass. DR-6-2-10, DR-6-4-20, or the Babyface…
Was the sharknose ever used for passenger, I thought it was a freighter.
I thought the big omission was the Geeps. It uses them for an example of the steam generator and air tanks, but doesn’t include them in the line up at all.
And now with passenger cars using HEP instead of steam any locomotive can pull passengers. The UP regularly pulls theirs with SD70s, and I have a picture of a string of the BNSF executives behind a SD40-2.
NYC used GP7s to haul some of their passenger trains. I have a couple of videos that show them doing so. Didn’t the author say something about covering the GPs in a future article? Even an honorable mention in the passenger guide would have been nice.
I found the article in MR helpful though. Particularly the part showing when each loco was in use. Just run down the column in your era and you know the locos you need. Hope they do the same thing for steam!
And once more, it’s only for HO and N modellers…No Z (they should have spoken of the AZL F59PHI or the FR Models F40 PH), no TT, no S, no O, no G, etc…
Dominique
TZ, the Pennsy version of the DR 6-4-20 is a passenger Shark with A-1-A trucks
and extra length. Baldwin never quite got away from the ‘custom build’ mindset
that carried over from their steam locomotive manufacturing, so there were
several versions of the DR 6-4-20: a single cab Baby-face, a double cab Baby-
face, and the Pennsy Shark. That mindset is probably one good reason why
Baldwin did not succeed as a diesel loco builder.
Henry Ford put it best, “You can have it in any color you want, as long as it is BLACK” Baldwin apparently never learned how to put together a “catalog” and sell specific models when EMD and Alco had basic models that could be customized if the Motive power requirements of a UP or ATSF NYC or PRR needed some thing unique. Plus the rail roads finally awakened to standardization of parts that WWII had demonstrated with B-17, Liberty ships, and Sherman tanks.
Didn’t the article say that there would be additional insallments covering othere models?
Will
Tony specifically says he’s not covering freight units But I think it’s a cop-out, a lot of roads used GPs and RSs in passenger service. As for the Baldwin’s, I’m not sure any non-brass models exist, but I think a mention would have been nice.
Nick
I think the article was put together real fast and was not very complete. I would love to see them really do a complete job, but I suspect that would be an ‘extra fee’ thing like the PDF’s and the DVD…
Jim Bernier
I would assume that MR is catering to the market majority which is HO and N scalers that model US roads.
I do too, especially since he DID include the EMD “F” units. As I recall the F stands for FREIGHT.