Search results

I knew E Units were long, but i never thought that long BTW, not to rain on your parade, but the SD24 is 8 inches too long. lol

Good Morning everyone, My name is Alex (Alexander), and i live in Far Northern New South Wales, Australia. I'm 14 years old, and model Burlington Northern in the 1970s, at a freelanced location. Another thing, its 10 pm of a Monday night here, and when its our Saturday, its your Friday, also...

Yes, your right there, ths SD40-2 is longer than my SD24, but the SD24 Looks like a big unit, compared to a GP7. It seems that the more modern time periods have longer locos, while pre 1980 is a lot shorter, save for the E Units, etc

Yeah, its pretty much accepted that if your going to run 6 axle motive power, it will have overhang and ont look pretty BTW, if you really want big power, the Atlas SD24 handles 18" easily, it doesnt look that bad on them

The SD40 can go aroud a 18" curve Another thing to check out is wether your Trackwork is as good as it can be I'll close by saying that on my layout, whch had bad trackwork, my SW1500, Athearn wouldnt even get out of the spur, yet my (well it was on loan from a club) SD40-2 almost made it...

I'm using Styrofoam on Plywood, it seems to work,, and i'm willingt to scrap it if need be. If you want to put waterways on it, i sugguest you use Foam, it will make life easy. Alexander