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We can't miss out the current most important diesel builder, can we!?!

 

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Not a brilliant picture I'm afraid but this is (I think!) the diesel that "did it" for GE, the U25B (Universal 2500Hp B truck). This model is an Oriental brass model that I eventually tracked down and bought close to the end of my C&O interest. At this time, the Stewart plastic model was very rare indeed and I simply could not get one.

 

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Here is a Dash 8-40C. The dash 8's had 1980's technology with 4000Hp and C trucks. Actually, the C&NW and GE played around with the horsepower setting on these great locos so this is really a Dash 8-42C! (an extra 200Hp!).

Atlas model with Lenz Silver decoder, runs like a dream.

 

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Now we have one of the first American "wide cabs", a Dash 9-44CW - 1990's technology, 4400Hp C trucks, Wide cab.

I think this was my first ever Kato loco and I did do as much detailing on it as I could, at the time (probably 20+ years ago!). You can hardly see inside the cab with my photo but there is an engineer and secondman, they have "clutches", newspapers, clipboards, dispatcher sheets and so forth. Naturally, it has typically Kato running AND huge hauling abilities.

 

Cheers,

John.

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I'm a GE fan and of all the US diesel builders GE are my favourite. I loved the slightly homespun look of the U Boats and Dash-7 line, then I thought the Dash-8 line had a very clean cut style that I preferred to the SD60. I love the GE wide cabs, while I loved the early EMD widecabs (even the triclops) I found the later versions a bit odd looking. That said, the Tier IV EMD design seems to be returning to form and looks to be a big improvement over the SD70ACe style. My current GE fleet includes:

 

Southern Pacific B39-8E

Conrail C40-8W

Amtrak P42

CSX C30-7

CSX AC44CW

CSX AC60CW

CNW AC44CW

Chessie B30-7

Burlington Northern C30-7

PRR U25C

NYS&W B40-8

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My O scale GE. An undecorated model I've bought from Richard Yoder company. After being a french model with buffers and screw link couplers, I changed my mind and it returned into an american model with new (styrene) pilots, a V strip, a number on the cab and weathering

 

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Found some better pictures of my GE locos. I know U boats never wore warbonnet livery but I couldn't resist it. This is obviously a heritage line which also explains the somewhat odd coaching stock as well. 

 

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7 Stewart U25Bs, mostly MEC;

Stewart U28B - EsPee;

ALCo U25B - Espee;

2 Kato Dash 9s - EsPee;

2 Lionel H0 U18Bs - one in CP "Pacman", the other a repaint from SOO to MEC; appropriately they both have General electric motors;

Intermountain U18B - MEC;

Broadway Blueline AC6000 - EsPee;

Atlas U33C - EsPee;

2 Bachmann 44-Tonners - MEC;

Athearn C44-9W - Espee

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Although I previously mentioned the GE Steeplecab in the Alco thread as they were sub contracted to build the bodies, it isn't called a GE Steeplecab for nothing....

 

This is my CAD design for a 50 to 62 ton loco:

 

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None again, in my case :rolleyes: just like the Soo Line, who had 10 U30Cs in about 1968 when EMD couldn't supply SD40s fast enough.

The U30Cs lasted about a decade & Soo Line couldn't wait to get rid of them, they were so unreliable!

 

Clearly things have changed since then for GE, but just as I said I'm not into antiques (except F-Units for the Pedantics) I'm not into current locos much either.

This thread is a useful explanation of what all those Dash-8 & Dash-9 numbers mean, though. :yes:

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A dodgy pic of my B40-8 having a play on Ray's End of the Spur last year.

 

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Just found a better pic;

On an English MPD layout! (Jack Taylor's Tighte End Yard)

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16 hours ago, newbryford said:

A dodgy pic of my B40-8 having a play on Ray's End of the Spur last year.

 

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Just found a better pic;

On an English MPD layout! (Jack Taylor's Tighte End Yard)

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I have a GP35 in the same livery. Most of the photos I've seen have the shield painted out too. 

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