Any body out there would like to have a---

Thoughts are good.  Unfortunately companies don't listen too well. I would love many different engines but they won't make them. We need more Amtrak stuff

Well I was just wondering.

"Unfortunately companies don't listen too well."

Actually, they listen attentively. They read this Forum (among other things) to see what we're saying. Why wouldn't they? We have the checkbooks. It's the very best sort of Market Research.

But, there are things whose absence I and my RR friends find mysterious. As do all of us. They can't build everything. Some of their decisions would not be my decisions - but I don't know what they know, either. It costs real money to manufacture a complex and precise product.

They listen all the time, but sometimes they just don't hear... 

Oh, they hear alright.

Their accountants just roll their eyes louder (there's still a recession going on)

---PCJ

Ask BACHMANN since they have an HO and N scale model of the High-Nose GP50 diesel locos in their catalogs.

Everybody who would like a GP50 for BN, CNW, SOUTHERN and then BNSF, UP, NS will have to contact the people at Bachmann frequently over the next few months and at the TCA in York, PA.

Andrew

The GP50 series could be Lionel locomotives, if they made them like the newest GP30s.

Andrew

Burlington Northern GP50s are still around under the BNSF.

He wants a high-nose GP50, so photos of low-nose models don't reinforce his desire.

The only railroad(s) of which I am aware that had high-nose versions was N&W/Southern in pre-NS days. I'm pretty sure there isn't a huge demand for that particular model in O gauge, but if any O gauge manufacturer decided to produce a GP50, it could opt for a high-nose variant as part of its production run, if it thought the sales would justify it.

I had one of the N scale high-nose Bachmann models about 25 years ago. In theory, Bachmann could use its drawings and specs to produce one in its Williams line. But honestly it's still a long shot. 

Imho the mfg's/importers would do much better if they did s GP40-2 phase II. ! So, SF , UP, CR, CP, CNW, FEC, etc.

Maybe a high nose could be offered as an optional part, if the basic loco was designed for an interchangeable nose. Of course, for prototype accuracy the rivet-counters would also want correct paint and road-names and numbers to match.

  photo from internet

no i would not like to have a---.....what ever that is  

Jim Berger posted:

no i would not like to have a---.....what ever that is  

Same here.

These hanging, unfinished questions are very irritating. 

Ace posted:

Maybe a high nose could be offered as an optional part, if the basic loco was designed for an interchangeable nose. Of course, for prototype accuracy the rivet-counters would also want correct paint and road-names and numbers to match.

Hey nice shot you have.Yep thats the gp50 moving at a good clip.I know if I had a model like this.I would run it just like that.

Here's a MTH GP35 high nose if that helps at all?

http://mthtrains.com/20-20132-1

The factory in China or the USA would have to produce both High-Nose and Low-nose models of the GP50 for it to be reasonable. Make the injection molds out of ALUMINUM, instead of more expensive Steel. Produce about 10,000 units of the GP50s and then the injection molds will be worn out. That way there will be just enough for the O gauge operators.

Andrew