Here's A Good One For The O Gauge Builders: The ALCo High Hood Switcher

 There is at least one real one still alive... at the Port of Burns Harbor, Indiana.

The 603 at Behr Iron & Steel in Portage, IN:

This locomotive was built as the Lackawanna 409 in 1940.

Bob

I'd love to see Atlas or MTH do these in O gauge. I will take two in Boston and Maine/Portland Terminal black with the red nose stripes, please.

If you count non-operable examples, there's another ALCO high-hood switcher stuffed and mounted in Temple, Texas at the local railroad museum. It's former Santa Fe, and is wearing the old Santa Fe tiger stripes paint scheme, howbeit without the Santa Fe herald.

Personally, I'm hoping for a New Haven-scheme high-hood ALCO switcher.

I would love to see this model as three of my favorite railroads had them    This came up last year in one of those wishlist threads.  Erie,  Lackawanna and CNJ

Didn't Lionel do a die-cast version back in the late 90's?

Jon 

Jon......I believe it was a similar looking FM model.  I'll check later when I'm home with my books but I believe it was an H12-44 or H10-44. They do look alike! Here's a pic of an H10-44.

If I remember correctly Lionel did the H12 and MTH did the H10.

Peter

What we are talking about here is an ALCO HH-660 high hood switcher.  I believe the Lionel loco shown above is an FM H10-44.

RMT's S-4 Bang would be a good candidate for a Bash into an Alco High-hood. It's on my project "to do" list.

Here is the Lionel switcher referenced above. It is a Fairbanks-Morse H12-44, an entirely different model.

Bob

I would buy one if it came in B&M.

That's the one I saw.  Burns Hbr = Portage.  I wonder if that is the oldest US diesel still in commercial service.

The Behr 603 is definitely near the top of the list. Scranton based Delaware-Lackawanna carries an EMC SC type unit built in 1935 for the DL&W on its active roster. The locomotive, numbered 426, re-engined and restored to its original Lackawanna livery, is often displayed at Steamtown:

Bob