What is this diesel body style ..got the photo posted...please help

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I don’t see anything.

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I don’t know how to get the photo on to the post

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Copy and paste a link…

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Gidday here’s a couple of recent links that may help…

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/229196.aspx

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/229168.aspx

Cheers, the Bear [:)]

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This one is even better.

http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/228367.aspx?page=1

Rich

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That is an Athearn GE U33C. You can tell it’s an Athearn by the cab top vents and the shell-to-frame mounting pins.

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Just for general information I will add Athearn also made the U28C and U30C.

I never could understand why they never made the U25C.

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That’s easy, the trucks are different (axle spacing AND sideframes) and would have required their own tooling.

Look at an AHM U25c and you;'ll see the difference…

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The AHM loco used Alco-style Tri-mount trucks - some buyers of the real U25C may have specified that GE use the trucks from traded-in Alcos on their U25Cs, but I’m not familiar enough with the prototype to know if that were the case, or if the trucks on the AHM loco are prototypical.
EMD did build GP35s for the GM&O and Southern which re-used the trucks from traded-in Alcos, so it was not an uncommon practice.

Wayne

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Wayne,

As it turns out, the U25C (as well as the electrics such as the E33, E44, E50 and others) all run on GE trucks. These are actually subtlly different from the Alco trucks, even though they appear the same at first glance.

It was enough of a problem that i’ve heard of people trying to use the E33 trucks to make better U25C models.

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Thanks much

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doctorwayne wrote the following:
some buyers of the real U25C may have specified that GE use the trucks from traded-in Alcos

I can not speak to the U25Cs, but GE did offer the U25Bs with optional EMD trucks as in incentive for RR that favored EMD to try GE products. MEC traded in a number of F3s and got U25Bs with Blomberg trucks, as I have modeled here

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Those are not Blomberg trucks under the 226. The Maine Central U-25s were bought second hand from the Rock Island. The Maine Central did buy some U-18Bs new from GE. I don’t recall what kind of trucks they had.

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The Blombergs were from traded in locomotives, to lower the price. MEC’s U18Bs had Blombergs from the start, I’m not sure what they were from.

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OOPS, sorry thinking too fast, and looking too slow[:$] [:$] [:$] [:$] [:$] -
I should have said U18B like this and thet did have Blombergs

The U18 and U25 pictures are next to each other on my Photobucket page