To start things off I’m planning in the near future to paint a modern day engine in Souther’s Tuxedo. I’ll post pictures if I ever get around to it.
-Smoke
I want to paint a SD70M in a tux. My second favorite engine in my favorite RR paint. My favorite engine is the SD40-2, so no problems there.
The SD40-2 is oneof my favorites. Did you hear that BLI is coming out with a high hood version of the Sd40-2?
-dekruif
I model Southern Railway. My favorite locomotive is the SD-24 running long hood forward.
Stan.
Folks yet another Southern railway fan here. Although I model Norfolk Southern,theres always room for Southern hi-hood SD-40-2’s. I built two NS hi-hoods not long ago,they would have looked better as Southern units.
Thanks …its about time somebody made a Southern talk about it posting.
Patrick
I wish I had the money for a BLI loco. I am working on making an Athearn SD40-2 into a high hood using Cannon and Co parts, but that is a very slow project since most of my time is going to my layout. Right now I have a SD9, RS3, S1 and a GP18. (S1 and GP18 for sale btw, email me)
You model HO scale right? I would probably be interested in the GP18 but i’m in N scale.
-dekruif
Yeah, HO.
I also like the SD-24 and always long hood forward i have tons of rolling stock with the Southern gives a green light to innovation logo. I saw plenty of these when i was a kid down at my grandfathers in Kentucky they lived about 75ft from a double track. Used to love watching those beautiful Tuxedo black with the white stripe and immatation gold accent stripes. Southern Railway brings back a lot of great memories for me. So i love to model Southern in HO i have a pretty good collection about 20yrs worth. It is dissapointing how rare it is to find Southern engines and rolling stock since it was a great railroad, until NS. But i have noticed Atlas And P2k have made some engines recently. Have fun everyone Southern Serves The South.
Aaahhhhh, the love of Southern Railway. I’m rather fond of SD24’s, SD40’s, and of course the GP30’s. But, since I model 1957, I have a fair collection of green units, E6’s, E7’s, E8’s, F units, GP7’s (or 9’s), FM Baby Trainmasters, 44 tonners, NW2’s, SW7’s (cow and calf Athearns), and who knows what else. Too bad the tuxedo scheme is all but gone, I know about 4610’s green (seen it), but would love to see more B&W tuxedo’s going around.
Southern Gives A Green Light to Innovations (OK that isn’t perfect, but it gives the idea)
Brad
While I’m not a Southern modeler per se, I am a fan. As a kid, my father and I chased 4501 around the South several times, which is probably where I got my fascination with the road. My first Lionel set was a 4-4-2 and four coaches, which my dad custom painted for the Southern for me.
I may be modeling a Midwestern road in Illinois, but I do still have some Southern in my roster. Since I’m modeling 1949, that mostly means 36’ SU boxcars, low and short gons, and a couple of wood Seley hoppers. Once I get a few other projects out of the way, I’ll be working on a resin master for one of the Southern’s most common boxcars of the 1930-1950 period, their large (15,000+) fleet of double sheathed, double door auto boxes. Those cars lasted into the NS merger in MOW service.
I purchased two of the Athearn blue box Green 4610 Gp-50 years ago and have never seen any since i have several actuall photos of the Green paint scheme the Athearn ones i have look identical to the photos of the commerative paint scheme down to the 4610 roadnumber. These are kind of rare. I also have several Stewart F-t in the southern green and F-7 in the tuxedo black and P2k E-8 and E-7 they run and look great.
I would like to see a model railroad manufacturer to produce some Southern Railway style signal bridges like the one that is pictured with an Amtrak train in it. I feel that there is a market for more Southern Railway trackside details such as these signal bridges. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=129360. It would be interesting to see what the Amtrak Crescent would look like if painted in Southern Green and White Paint on the locomotives and silver on Viewliner and Amfleet cars. David Briel
Sign me up!
I model HO scale and primarily the Southern and Norfolk Southern. I also model some Kansas City Southern too, but it is limited.
I am currently reading a book about the Southern Spencer Yards. The North Carolina Transporation Museum is housed in some of the original buildings that Southern used to repair and maintain their steam locomotive fleets in Spencer, NC. Check out the website here: http://www.nctrans.org/
I did a '70M in the tuxedo scheme several years ago, and subsequently sold it on eBay for about $250…for an engine that never existed! And I still regret selling it to this day…
anb740
Paint another one. What manufacturer made the SD70M??
There was some guy a while ago that painted a Kato SD70MAC in Rio Grande colors and it sold for somewhere around $300. If I ever do custom paintone I think I would let ebay have a shot at it, just to make some money to buy another one and paint it.
-dekruif
I’m doing a standard G scale 4’ x 18" micro to take to the large scale show in Perry in February. Oughtta be a hoot.
There was one this year that had some incredible detail on it. This was really something, Western scenery with a huge trestle (though probably not in G, but for us HO people, big). For another fantasy paint engine, check out the cover on this: http://www.middlegeorgiarailroadassociation.com/cgmrc/brochure.asp
Hey Dekruif,
I think Athearn Genesis has an SD70M… They don’t have an undec version though, so one would have to strip the paint. [V]
It’s going to be interesting to see if BLI does better on this version of the SD40-2 than their original run. No matter I’ll probably get the non sound non DCC model since the MSRP is in line with Atlas and P2K locos.
Makes me wonder whethe I should start converting my Kato SD40-2 which has been sitting around in my workshop for a couple of years.