Dave Plummer
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This reported to me at the LHS this morning from the owner who is at the NMRA show. This could be huge if it turns out to be true!
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TrainOrders forum is carrying the list of roads names, etc. Seems Athearn is also doing an SD45-2 along with the SD45-2T, and the dash 2 will include Santa Fe. I am have to consider running an Athearn.Dave Plummer said:This reported to me at the LHS this morning from the owner who is at the NMRA show. This could be huge if it turns out to be true!
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Close, in a way I suppose, but that's Ryan "Espeeboy" Martin's gallery. He and Harry took several photos together at the Vegas show last year and both have Pbase accounts.2slim said:Here's a photo which was posted on Yahoo group 'Western prototype modelers ' by Harry Wong I think, sorry if I am wrong. This is pre production from Athearn.
http://www.pbase.com/image/31216721
2slim :thumb:
Hello All,
I'm finally back from the NMRA 2004 National Train
Show in Seattle. A great trip!
Our Thanks to Ryan "Espeeboy" Martin for passing on
the news live from the show floor from me Friday
morning. Judging from forum traffic, seems that the
recent announcements have truly gotten folks excited a
bit more than usual!
Truly, the showstopper for me (as a mid-70's-early
80's era SP modeler), and a great many others at the
show was the awesome new Athearn HO SD45T-2! Right
behind that is the Intermountain FP7 and FMC 5283 cu
ft double door lumber boxcar from Intermountain
(suitable for SP/SSW/BN and others), Atlas N-scale
2-truck Shay on display and other goodies!
I gotta say though.. the all-new-tooling Athearn
SD45T-2 is stunningly executed, even in its
pre-production form, and I am certain that I myself,
as an espee modeler will be purchasing these in
multiple six-packs!
N scalers are not to be left out, as Intermountain
also announced an N scale SD45T-2..
So:
HO: Athearn all-new HO SD45T-2 HO scale
and..
N: Intermountain N SD45T-2 & SD45-2 in N scale
Much more on this to come soon on my upcoming photo
album to be published in phases this week, but here's
a good start below.. Keep checking back for updates.
http://www.pbase.com/tracktime/nmra2004
Best Regards,
Harry Wong
dean said:Just from the pre-production shots that Harry and others have posted, I am going to have to think real hard to justify having a couple of these in the middle of Kansas on the ATSF! :thumb: