Hello everybody,
found some ES44AC’s on ebay today. Called my favourite hobby shop and they say that these locomotives are about two weeks away from delivery here in Ontario.
Has someone picked up one of these locomotives already, and if so what are your impressions of these engines? Looking forward to when they arrive.
Frank
Cool!!! Been waiting a long time for mine to show up!
I’ll post when I see them & review, thanks for the update!
They’ve been for sale on Ebay for awhile now. Pre-sale that is.
Based on a email I sent to my dealer tonight. He spoke with Intermountain today. The loco’s arrived at Intermountain today around mid day. They will be inspected this week and part of Monday. They will then be shipped out. I would assume early to mid Dec on those units. I am looking forward to it. I have 4 CP’s, 2 UP’s and a KCS de Mexico unit.
Regards,
CASO
Intermountain is bringing some of the orders with them to the Oklahoma City Train show this weekend(Dec4-5) I’ll be picking up my 4 UP and 2 KCS units there this Saturday.
I’m anxious to see how these run and sound - I’ll kill somebody at Soundtraxx if the put the FDL-16 prime mover sound in these models.
Keep your fingers crossed as the Horn and Compressor sounds haven’t been correct yet for the GE’s.
I hope they get this right…I’ll know by Saturday.
HF1
WHOOPEE!!! Been waiting for months for the 65 I have on order! My N-Scale motive power fleet is about to get a big boost!
Is that a typo? Did you say you have 65 of them on order? If that’s true, what are you going to do with all of them? That’s kinda crazy. [bow]
Wait arent these in HO not N???
I believe so.
Well Guys and Gals…
I just got my 6 GEVOS from Intermountain this weekend, and boy are you going to like’m!
I got 4 UP and 2 KCS versions, all with sound(Tsunami) ,but I’m kinda wishing I’d had ordered the non sound, as I learned at a recent Train Show , that LokSound is coming out with a Gevo Sound set and and from the few tracks I heard, it sounds even better than Tsunami.
That said, the model is much better than I had expected and comes with LED lighting in a more correct warm white output, including the numberboards(Ahemmm… pay ATTENTION, Athearn) and they are very smooth running out of the box.
Paint finish is really superb and from the comparisions I’ve made, they look very accurate.
The KCS model has the correct low-rear lighting position and Dynamic Brake intakes and each is detail specific to the prototype.
Overall, the detail of the carbody, tank and trucks is much better than the Tower 55 models I had, were so to answer the old concern: NO…this model is not based on any tooling from T55.
Handrails are one-piece and moulded in plastic, similar to Atlas or Kato and are slim-profile.
I hope to get some pics posted on here but someone may beat me to it as they recieve theirs.
My thanks to all at Intermountain for a great model and I look forward to getting the BNSF versions in the spring.
HF1
Thank you for your evaluation from your locomotives, looking forward to getting my engine now even more.
thank you
Frank
A review from youtube should be up soon at this address:
ONLY 65? I would have thought you needed more than that. My motive power superintendent wanted some but the bean counters said the cost of transporting them back to 1954 through the time machine was way too high.
So we are stuck with GM’s latest offering, a couple of SD9’s.
That HF1 is in an interesting hobby, seems he buys 6 of every new thing that comes along. I would get dizzy just keeping track of what was coming next, let alone actually finding time to play with that much stuff. But then again my playing usually involves painting, decaling, detailing, kit bashing - then running in regular operatating sessions.
Quite happy here to only have 120 locos - all representing prototypes east of the Mississippi built before 1954.
Sheldon
That’s a nice video. I can’t wait to get mine. Sadly though, I’ll have to wait later as I am getting the BNSF units.
AC…
So, I’m an interesting ‘hobby’ am I?[:-^] Oooookay…if you say so.[*-)]
For the ‘record’, I buy one of each of the road #'s offered but in this case, I only purchased two of the KCS versions.
If they perform well as I expect they will, I’m planning to get a few of the BNSF versions too… but that’s a ways off right now.
“I probably have more locomotives than I need, but not more than I want”.[;)]
HeritageFleet1 /HF1
Read more carefully, I said you are “in” an interesting hobby. It just seems that everything new that is discussed on this forum, regardless of roadname, era, steam diesel, etc, you are buying a 6 pack of, or least a couple of them. And that’s fine by me, I’m happy for you. It’s just a little, no, a lot, different than the hobby I’m in.
Most of what I buy, I too by in pairs, 6 packs and sometimes even more (by last count there are nine 4-8-2’s, eight 2-8-0’s, etc, etc) - but it is a much more focused list of roadnames, eras and prototypes.
In fact, unless some specific locos magicly appear on the market soon, I’m about done buying locos.
I have a theme, a layout design, an operational plan, a roster designed to protect those schedules, and that roster is nearly full.
What is an ES44AC anyway? It’s still 1954 here.
Sheldon
A/C…
You’re absolutely right…[bow]…I stand corrected…serves me right for thinking I caught you making a mistake…[
] lol.
HeritageFleet1