**ARRIVED** Announcing Custom Run Premier GP7's - Rock Island and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy from Berwyn's Toys and Trains!

We will post the MTH preproduction artwork as soon as it is available.

Hopefully the 'finished' (not the pre-production artwork) Rock engine is a truer blue than MTH's recent CP Canadian armed forces commemorative debacle.

I was planning to get one of THE ROCK blue locomotives for all of the matching blue freight cars.

I might order this.

Andrew

Nice shot of the Burlington GP-7 in front of the Kroehler factory in Naperville. Stopped riding the Burlington to work quite a few years back, but I assume it’s still standing. I’ve ordered one of the CB&Q GP-7’s and am thrilled MTH will make it in the Premier line. Berwyn’s got this one just right!

@PH1975 posted:

Hopefully the 'finished' (not the pre-production artwork) Rock engine is a truer blue than MTH's recent CP Canadian armed forces commemorative debacle.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see, won't we?  Thank goodness we are sticking with primary colors and not trying to replicate some sort of tri-color three dimensional camouflage paint scheme.  Big difference there @PH1975. 

@John Giesecke 080118 posted:

Nice shot of the Burlington GP-7 in front of the Kroehler factory in Naperville. Stopped riding the Burlington to work quite a few years back, but I assume it’s still standing. I’ve ordered one of the CB&Q GP-7’s and am thrilled MTH will make it in the Premier line. Berwyn’s got this one just right!

It’s now 5th Avenue Station but still says Kroehler on the building. 5th Avenue is a combination of apartments, offices and shops.

It’s nice in that you can step out of your apartment for a 1 minute walk to get on the train which gets you downtown in 25 minutes.

Sure wish all these custom runs came with the fixed pilot's option.

You should do well with both paint schemes. Both are very sharp.

If the Burlington was being done by Atlas O, I'd be in for a pair. Oh, well.

Nice work, Berwyns Toys and Trains.  For Midwest rail fans specifically, these engines are awesome!

They're FINALLY HERE!  Your orders are on their way!  Thanks to everyone who ordered these engines......