Soo Line In Ho (for Jordan!)

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Jordan,
Went to the club (Spalding) and saw these, thought you may be interested, he's a big fan of the yankie stuff and got a lot of loco's and rolling stock, all in H.O.
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Alan

 

[Jordan]

Have I got some sort of reputation around here..?? ?? ??

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... (where's that "Drooling Smiley" gone..?!?)

Yep; definitely a Soo Fan there, I'd say...
Interesting to see a model of the SD40B #6450 - must be a 'kitbash'. (I won't go into all the anoraky details about it here... wouldn't want to go upsetting the diehard "B.R.Blue or nowt" fans here y'know)
Also the Ex-Milwaukee "Bandit" SD10 (also unusual) and two Atlas GP38-2's....

Thanks for posting!

 

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Jordan,
You've lost me with all those letters and numbers, but if you mean the one without a cab, I think he said it has been modified, and it needs a bit more work doing to it.
Alan

 

[Jordan]

Yes that's the one; it's a Cab-less (otherwise known as a"B-Unit") locomotive that was used in multiple, although naturally it wasn't allowed to lead a train; the Soo Line had just this one example of that type (originally built by the Burlington Northern), so a model of it is also very rare and unusual. To make the model is far more than just removing where the cab would have been, though, so I can appreciate the work that has gone/is going into that!

As for "You've lost me with all those letters and numbers"... well that applies to me with Pre-TOPS BR diesels....
... never mind all those Kettles that preceded them......

 

[Steph Dale]

Yes that's the one; it's a Cab-less (otherwise known as a"B-Unit") locomotive that was used in multiple, although naturally it wasn't allowed to lead a train; the Soo Line had just this one example of that type (originally built by the Burlington Northern), so a model of it is also very rare and unusual. To make the model is far more than just removing where the cab would have been, though, so I can appreciate the work that has gone/is going into that!

Me too, a top-notch piece of work it seems to me. Incidentally I've got the parts here for doing an SD10 from the Blueline SD9, which should be great fun...

Steph