Dek,
I had read that 6901 was in North Carolina, but I thought that #6900 was in a museum in Atlanta, Georgia. I’ve been hoping that on my next trip to Georgia I can find that museum and take some photos. I’m a big fan of E units.
10-4.
Antonio,
I was thinking about this topic yesterday and how timely it was…
Me and Nancy just discussed my Christmas present… a Broadway Limited E unit
in Southern black and white. I was looking at it in the LHS on Monday. This will be my
third Southern E unit(fourth if you count the B unit)… but the only one in the black and white scheme.
I have always liked the green and white scheme, but the black and white will make
a nice addition. I have the QSI system in a P2K and it sounds great. I assume that
the BLI will sound just as good.
BTW, I still haven’t gotten a Tsunami… been waiting for the dust to settle. Dave
Hello Dave!
I feel like you and I are kindred spirits as we were on this forum a year ago (2004)replying to Tsunami and MTH topics,… and dodging the flame torpedoes in the process!!
That’s great that you’r getting a “Tuxedo” E unit. Will look sharp on your trains. I’m assuming you’re modeling the Southern Crescent. I’m hoping to model it once I finish building up my SCL passenger car fleet. One nice aspect of the prototype Crescent is that there are loads and loads of photos on the web of this train.
Are you getting the BLI E8? In case you are, from what I’ve read, it’s a winner, just like the E7. The prime mover sounds are accurate as well. Even though the powerplants were 567s, EMD made electrical and mechanical upgrades to the E8 from the E7 that changed the character of the sound slightly. QSI captured it well for the E8.
I understand what you mean about the dust settling from the Tsunami. I do hope that the diesel version will be offered for the $80 range like the current steam version.
High Greens.
Antonio/Dave
I too await the arrival of the Diesel Tsunami. If it has the incredible sounds of the steam, it will be a hit. The only complaint I have about the QSI is I have 1, E6 and 3, E7’s and they all sound the same. I don’t know if the upgrades have made any improvement on this, but selectable horns would be a great start.
I am still surprised that other than my thread a while back, there hasn’t been any chatter about the Tsunami.
(Hope I don’t sound like a saleman[:D])
REX
FYI: Southern FP7 #6133 and E8 # 6900 are at the NC Transportation Museum at Spencer. Both in green / im. aluminum. There’s also a Southern GP30 in black / im. aluminum, and an ACL E3, #501, in purple / silver.
E8 #6901 (green / im. alum) is at the Southeastern Railway Museum at Duluth, GA.
Bunch of other steam / diesel (some operating) at both museums.
Lonewoof,
Thanks for that tip! If I’m not mistaken, Duluth is not too far from Atlanta.
Rex,
Re: Tsunami, I think it hasn’t been brought up for a while due to all the chatter generated about it not being ready (yes, yours truly was guilty of contributing).
Now that a “Tsunami” is on the market, and the feedback from a few of the users has been positive, the fanfare has “mellowed a bit”. Even though the diesel Tsunami is not on the market yet, the presence of the steamer version seems to reassure that a diesel Tsunami is on its way.
The only thing I find strange is that this “Steamer” Tsunami has only 3 flavors. Yet, 2 years ago we read info indicating that the Tsunami would include sound for the Southern Pacific GS-4. What happened? The GS-4 uses a steamboat style whistle, which is not offered in any of the 3 current Tsunami versions.
I certainly hope that the at least with the diesel version that all of the horn offerings from before will still be available., like the S3, K5, and M5.
Antonio,
Not all the steam Tsunami’s have been released. There are 3 more versions to come out. They are all listed on the their Web site.
http://www.soundtraxx.com/products/dcc/price.htm
REX
Whoops!
I owe Soundtraxx an apology! There’s the GS-4 on the list! Even includes the horn.
Now I understand: 3 GROUPS of locomotives with 8 types of whistles.
I stand corrected.
I stand corrected on both E8s being in NC. It hit me this morning that one was not an E8, but I could not remember what it was.
Thanks for the clarification lonewoof.
Did Southern have any of their SD24’s in the green paint scheme, or were they all black?
Tnx, Matt
All of the SD24 locos on the freights I saw back in the day never seen a green Southern one.
I recall reading somewhere, and I can not verify this, that the SD 24’s were introduced in the black and white tux scheme. Don’t think they were ever in green.