SDP45 in N?

[Meiriongwril]

announce1 Does anyone know whether an SDP45 (i.e. the passenger version) has ever been produced?
I'd like one to pull my SP bilevel passenger cars in sold gray livery!

 

[Herc Driver]

Nice engine...I found lots of pics on this website... http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?mid=180

InterMountain makes a tunnel motor SD40T that is close and Kato makes the SD40 right now but of course neither are an SDP45. I found this website too that was supposed to be about stretching the SD40 to make the SDP45...http://espee.railfan.net/spsdp45-m.html

Hope some of this help.

 

[Triplex]

As that site notes, the SD50/60 mechanism and the SD40T-2/SD45T-2 mechanism are the right size - but they have HT-C trucks. If only Atlas actually represented all SD50s with their model... The first three orders out of Conrail's four had trade-in Flexicoil trucks, like all CR SD40-2s. A model of one of these would probably be a better starting point for an SDP45, combined witha n SD45 shell. Atlas's Conrail SD50s can only represent Conrail's last order.

 

[Meiriongwril]

Thanks Herc for the websites with the pictures (good lookin' beasts ain't they?*), and you and Triplex for the advice. Food for thought.
I have also contacted Intermountain to see if they may one day bring out this version.
If they say anything useful I'll post.

*To be read with a Lord Peter Wimsey voice....