Does anyone know the release date for the tower55 es44dc in csx paint?
Winter 2006 was the most specific time period that I could find
http://www.tower55products.com/pdfs/price_list.pdf
the bottom of the page
I’m waiting on that as well as the NS scheme… they’re taking their good old time on the railroads that actually have them yet there are versions in NP, SF, and SP schemes already out.
The Fantasy models do not have to have details specific to the Prototype.
The previous posts were correct: I wrote their CEO about release dates for upcoming GEVOs and he was pretty non-specific except that I should refer to the PDF price list, which mostly has stuff like “Late 2006” or “Winter 2006.” I’m not totally sure why they decided to release the phantom liveries and even more bizarre was the fact that they were even less ‘prototypical.’ I might have been tempted to buy an ES44DC in Santa Fe Warbonnett, but not Bluebonnett. After all, if there was no BNSF merger, then GEVOs would likely have been done up in red and silver not blue and yellow. Also, if they had at least numbered the NP/ATSF units in the 7000s series, I could “prototypically” pass off a phantom GEVO as a sort of BNSF heritage unit. But they didn’t and at 200+ I’m not sure how big a market there is for these newest releases.
Because I model the SP as if it had never been swallowed up, I would like to have the fictional es44 in Black Widow, just can’t justify the price right now. Maybe later if their still around this winter.