Very nice. A center roller?
due respect to C Sam - I too thought the thread was about Atlantics. I was almost ready to again post my Saginaws.
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Very nice. A center roller?
due respect to C Sam - I too thought the thread was about Atlantics. I was almost ready to again post my Saginaws.
The (2) Burlington E5's I received are top notch Silver Arrow and Silver Swift. Also the Missouri Pacific E6 AB set #7002. Thanks to all that contributed in making them.
Have a pair of Rock Island to still open.
Scott ,
Beautiful recreation of the EMD E6 I grew up admiring. My favorite diesel by far. I wish I could have purchased one of each paint scheme. The Seaboard citrus scheme came out great.
Hope you do a 2nd run in the near future.
Leon
sdmann posted:So at this time I want to thank a major contributor to the E5 CB&Qs, Santiago Pineda. He spent many hour reviewing drawings, production pictures and the such, and really guided me into doing the best that could be done on the CB&Q E5s. THANK YOU.
It was a privilege, Scott! Thank you! My set will be here in a couple of days and I am dying to see it!
SANTIAGOP23 posted:sdmann posted:So at this time I want to thank a major contributor to the E5 CB&Qs, Santiago Pineda. He spent many hour reviewing drawings, production pictures and the such, and really guided me into doing the best that could be done on the CB&Q E5s. THANK YOU.
It was a privilege, Scott! Thank you! My set will be here in a couple of days and I am dying to see it!
Santiago - You work on these is outstanding. As a result, my A unit will be the first Burlington unit on my roster. Not sure what I'm going to pull with it ... coal drags out of Pueblo, CO? I will need some help from friends who have passenger cars for it.
Check out RMC this month if you need to know what to tie directly behind your CB&Q version. The authors name seems somewhat familiar;-)
Bruce
Many thanks, Jonathan! Please do not demote her to freight... hehe... an easy one would be a shorter CZ w Atlas’ beauties
brwebster posted:Check out RMC this month if you need to know what to tie directly behind your CB&Q version. The authors name seems somewhat familiar;-)
Bruce
KD, I’m glad you went for them! Hope you enjoy them, they do look amazing 😉
As the dust settles on the warehouse floor, there are some models that are left over due to customer cancellations.
2 - 3R E5 A/B Set CB&Q
2 - 3R E6 A/B Set SFWB
1 - 2R E6 A SEABOARD (Green)
You can purchase these from our web site.
http://www.3rdrail.com/Diesel-SuperSale.html
As we take inventory today I will update this list.
Blue Streak posted:The (2) Burlington E5's I received are top notch Silver Arrow and Silver Swift. Also the Missouri Pacific E6 AB set #7002. Thanks to all that contributed in making them.
Have a pair of Rock Island to still open.
Your welcome on the contribution to the Mopac sets
Bob
OH YES... Bob Harris spent a lot of time with me as well, reviewing drawings, pointing out deficiencies, making sure we didn't make the same mistakes as others have. Making the Mopac E6s as good as humanly possible. Thank you Bob.
Liked my New E6's so much that I broke down for one of Scott's left over sets of Santa Fe's. I have a awesome fleet of E6's - going to be selling a few Lionel/MTH's off soon.
I ran my Santa Fe units today. Super smooth. They look like the real deal with trucks that are not for high water and a 3 rail pilot that looks great even for non fixed. I wished I ordered the 2nd Up unit.
Great to hear most of these are getting through without damage.
Also to Thank: Jonathan Peiffer and Richard Dunn, of which I would not be able to do these projects without.
At the factory now, they are hot to start the E7s and PAs... Production is now fixed. Can't add anymore, but we will take stand-by orders. People do drop out in the process of waiting for these. Looks like an October Delivery.
Man. Wish I could paint like that!
Boy I’m sure enjoying everyone’s pictures!!!! Absolutely well done models. Scott. Do you have a cool group shot of production output to offer? I seem to remember seeing a big table of SD7,9s. Here’s hoping there is enough interest for a second run down the road for those of us that “tapped out” after buying multiple units - and still have “wants”. I’d like to see later repaints offered - MP in Jenks blue and IC in brown and orange
TrainBub
Lord please no Jenks Blue, it serves no purpose it was the start of the demise of the Missouri Pacific. I can just imagine Scott doing a 100 of E6 in Union Pacific gray and yellow with North Little Rock red Lettering. Be happy with what he did, and they are rare from the quantities 5A 3 B 2r 5A 4 B 3r
Bob Harris
Bob Harris posted:Lord please no Jenks Blue, it serves no purpose it was the start of the demise of the Missouri Pacific. I can just imagine Scott doing a 100 of E6 in Union Pacific gray and yellow with North Little Rock red Lettering. Be happy with what he did, and they are rare from the quantities 5A 3 B 2r 5A 4 B 3r
Bob Harris
Oh I am incredibly happy with the MP models - especially with the unique port hole windows !!! With the numbers you mention and required different tooling, I am grateful to Scott for executing the model. (And I’m selfishly sorry we couldn’t get MP and T&P E7s with portholes.)
We all have our own likes and dislikes and where we draw lines. I will not buy a model in Union Pacific colors with MP lettering. Don’t want one. However, A Jenks blue model would add a color diversification to my fleet of E’s and F’s. And actually would fit in nicely with all the last powerful MP diesels. Just me. I love all the models. I grew up watching the real ones in South St. Louis county and lived every minute of it.
TrainBub
TrainBub posted:Bob Harris posted:Lord please no Jenks Blue, it serves no purpose it was the start of the demise of the Missouri Pacific. I can just imagine Scott doing a 100 of E6 in Union Pacific gray and yellow with North Little Rock red Lettering. Be happy with what he did, and they are rare from the quantities 5A 3 B 2r 5A 4 B 3r
Bob Harris
Oh I am incredibly happy with the MP models - especially with the unique port hole windows !!! With the numbers you mention and required different tooling, I am grateful to Scott for executing the model. (And I’m selfishly sorry we couldn’t get MP and T&P E7s with portholes.)
We all have our own likes and dislikes and where we draw lines. I will not buy a model in Union Pacific colors with MP lettering. Don’t want one. However, A Jenks blue model would add a color diversification to my fleet of E’s and F’s. And actually would fit in nicely with all the last powerful MP diesels. Just me. I love all the models. I grew up watching the real ones in South St. Louis county and lived every minute of it.
TrainBub
Oops. Fat fingers strikes again 😖
lived every minute = loved every minute
TrainBub posted:Bob Harris posted:Lord please no Jenks Blue, it serves no purpose it was the start of the demise of the Missouri Pacific. I can just imagine Scott doing a 100 of E6 in Union Pacific gray and yellow with North Little Rock red Lettering. Be happy with what he did, and they are rare from the quantities 5A 3 B 2r 5A 4 B 3r
Bob Harris
Oh I am incredibly happy with the MP models - especially with the unique port hole windows !!! With the numbers you mention and required different tooling, I am grateful to Scott for executing the model. (And I’m selfishly sorry we couldn’t get MP and T&P E7s with portholes.)
We all have our own likes and dislikes and where we draw lines. I will not buy a model in Union Pacific colors with MP lettering. Don’t want one. However, A Jenks blue model would add a color diversification to my fleet of E’s and F’s. And actually would fit in nicely with all the last powerful MP diesels. Just me. I love all the models. I grew up watching the real ones in South St. Louis county and lived every minute of it.
TrainBub
Regarding the tooling issue the Early E 7 done years ago the dies were cut such as it probably could not be done as an insert change of portholes in an E7 body. They were not thinking that way back then. So you were looking at a whole new tool to get Portholes. It could be done with a new E7 3.0 body using a resin casting or a 3d type insert, If you wanted to cut up the shell. It could be done but work. There was a company that did this back in the 1980's to the HO LLK P2K shells and models.
But I do not know there name when they were offering the kits, but the were nice in there time.
Bob Harris
Here are some photos of the Rockford O Scalers Santa Fe E-6 A/B set. We will post some photos of the other units that our member’s purchased in the next few days. The models are gorgeous. Great job, Scott!
Absolutely fantastic great time to be in this hobby. Thanks Scott for a great project
For the sake of my ever-tightening cash flow, I'm grateful that Pennsy did not have E6's.
My real point is to congratulate Scott for his collaborative approach to developing 3rd Rail models: Pfeiffer and Heil come to mind. I don't know, but doubt, that the other major O scale manufacturers open up their development to outside help. The results, as in these E6's are plain to see.
That's absolutely correct without Scott we would have mediocrity
Would love to have been in a position to buy a set of these AT&SF units - simply stunning!
Thank you Scott and Jonathan for more beautiful locomotives. Please keep these photos coming!
Scott, based on these fabulous pictures, I reckon you’d get a fair number of orders if you announced a re-run tomorrow! 😉😊
Did anybody get a Southern E6 in Tuxedo livery?
Please keep the photos coming, folks, and thanks for sharing them.
I would love to see more of what has not been posted. I save the photo's as a way to tell how far SSM has progressed from previous models offered in the pass. If you haven't noticed it is by leaps and bounds. Good Work Scott.
Bob Harris
Bob Harris posted:I would love to see more of what has not been posted. I save the photo's as a way to tell how far SSM has progressed from previous models offered in the pass. If you haven't noticed it is by leaps and bounds. Good Work Scott.
Bob Harris
I agree. Small details very crisp and not muted by smothering thick paint.
TrainBub
Steve Adby posted:Scott, based on these fabulous pictures, I reckon you’d get a fair number of orders if you announced a re-run tomorrow! 😉😊
Did anybody get a Southern E6 in Tuxedo livery?
Please keep the photos coming, folks, and thanks for sharing them.
Yes. Keep the photos coming !!!! There’s actually quite a few missing roads. I’m saving the photos too.
I’ll be game for another run down the road !!!! Can’t get everything I want at once. Scott has a lot Queued up but the tooling is done. Could have the potential for another schedule fill in project. Gotta hold those prices though. It gets expensive quickly buying two or three at a time.
TrainBub
Some nice additions to this run include etched metal builders plates and etched metal separately applied kick plates! Also, notice how they re-did the side cab two piece plastic insets to a one piece with tampo printed silver frame for a finer appearance!
c.sam posted:Would love to have been in a position to buy a set of these AT&SF units - simply stunning!
Thank you Scott and Jonathan for more beautiful locomotives. Please keep these photos coming!
Just got off the phone. Hopefully I will have a set of SFWB on its way this week. Awaiting the dust settling after they ship the engines. I guess standby. Fingers crossed.
In addition to what Santaigo listed above, I have to say I am really impressed with the pilot on the Seaboard model. I'm guessing the UP City trains have a similar pilot design but I have not seen the UP units posted.
Nice to see the B&O and Milwaukee unit.
Charlie
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