Must be the jaunty little hat it's wearing.Looking good Rick!! for some reason I really like that engine.
Nice and smooth. Does a great job at being a switcher, but I usually pull heavier duty so I don't get to use it much.Hey Steve, how's it run? Mine hasn't been on the tracks yet.
Must be the jaunty little hat it's wearing.
Steve, I have 4 Progressive SW1500's. #36, #37, and 2 #38's. I am not familiar with the MNS does someone make those decals?Nice and smooth. Does a great job at being a switcher, but I usually pull heavier duty so I don't get to use it much.View attachment 34739
EDIT: Actually, since I'm here Jerome I seem to recall you had a pair (or more) of PGR switchers. Do you have any from the PGR's predecessor, the Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern? I have one single MNS SD39 and she needs a friend, but I'm pretty sure an MNS SW1200 would have to be a custom paintjob, right? Might you have any pointers?
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You got a fetish for jaunty little hats, then?Toot, it could be that or I have a dozen or so just like it.
You got a fetish for jaunty little hats, then?
Steve, I have 4 Progressive SW1500's. #36, #37, and 2 #38's. I am not familiar with the MNS does someone make those decals?
Via eBay I'm able to find some from Microscale that cover what appears to be all of the MNS locomotive roster, and some Herald King ones that are only for the SD38 & SD39's.
Microscale number is MC-4179
Kind of cracks me up that you don't know about MNS. PGR's paint scheme is a nod to MNS, but several of PGR's locos came from the MNS also. I know for sure my SD39, #40, is PGR #40 today. I believe #36and #37 are the same case.
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Hey, I hear you. I couldn't even count how much stuff I have learned about Milwaukee Road since I chose to focus on it a few months ago.Steve, I can't know every regional railroad out there, I'm not that good!!
Do you have the older trucks with the metal sideframes?Jerome, what do you do when you need to have flexicoil trucks on a switcher that doesn't have them? I have a Blue Box SW7 that has a silky smooth saganami motor and LED's, but the trucks are wrong for the loco I want to model and I can't find where to get flexicoil switcher trucks.
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Good to see you "back in the saddle" my friend!What diabolical plans are a foot this time?? View attachment 34892