i heard lionel is coming out with SD45s soon so any guess on road names
hear are my hopes
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Hopefully Southern Pacific. Hopefully Santa Fe 5300 class as well.
SMH, I cannot figure out why MTH failed to do the largest order of SD45 = Southern Pacific 
This may be a good one to start with...
High hood Southern Railway and N&W SD45s would be great.
Neal Jeter
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SP all the way
sure....... when I'm working on a Milwaukee Road MTH Dummy right now..... I need to quit working on a projects
I like those high hoods of Southern and N&W.
Didn't they typically run those long hood forward?
Love to have a set of EMD Demo 43xx units, even though they are unlikely to have the correct L-shaped cab window.
I need a couple of these
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Well of course........
Straight Outta San Bernardino... the 1st one, experimental with white lettering
Then finalized to yellow letters
and since the tooling is modular, why not do the SD45-2.... then we can do B units, Bicentennial units (those would sell out in a heart beat even if you're a SF Hater) oh boy, don't get me going
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Too bad the SOU did not order some 45's with a steam generator for the high short hood.
TM Terry posted:I like those high hoods of Southern and N&W.
Didn't they typically run those long hood forward?
That was my thought as well but watching videos of Southern from the 1970s and 1980s they ran them both ways, long hood forward and short hood forward.
Neal Jeter
Lionlman posted:TM Terry posted:I like those high hoods of Southern and N&W.
Didn't they typically run those long hood forward?
That was my thought as well but watching videos of Southern from the 1970s and 1980s they ran them both ways, long hood forward and short hood forward.
Neal Jeter
N&W was primarily "long hood forward".. Southern, both ways.. Me thinks...
I'd like to see this one made...
Tom
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Will the hoods be scale width? Earl G.
Being a Jersey guy, I'd readily get an Erie Lackawanna version. MTH has made one now, so why not Lionel?
Are they coming out with an SD45 so that it has Legacy command control and RailSounds?
The current O scale SD45 diesel models have not been made in the Great Northern gray, white, and big sky blue scheme from the 1967-1970 era. That would be my first choice.
Andrew
Yes the SD-45's will be full Legacy Railsounds and control.
The good news is that some of you that have posted in this thread will get your wish on paint schemes. Only 30 days until we find out who is correct! 
August 31st is the street date for the catalog.
Was the CNW the only road that didn't have dynamics?
lightningstripe posted:Will the hoods be scale width? Earl G.
If it's anything like the most recent SD40 - Yes.
Honestly, After the gp9 fiasco for prr fans, I doubt it that I can trust dem Boyz at Lionel to get a prr and /or a demo version correct.
I would be down for a SD45. But a SD45-2...man oh man. I would buy at a minimum 3 of em. I remember as a kid watching Santa Fe SD45-2's in the late 80's taking on cajon pass and just drooling at how brutish they looked lashed up with SD40-2's. Love em.
I would like a BNSF, Erie Lakawanna, Union Pacific or Southern Pacific. Be nice if they came out with a Rock Island and Lehigh Valley too.
DennyM posted:I would like a BNSF, Erie Lakawanna, Union Pacific or Southern Pacific. Be nice if they came out with a Rock Island and Lehigh Valley too.
There were never any prototype SD45s painted for the Lehigh Valley. Not that that matters for toy trains.
Also, SD45-2s are a different length than SD45s and use different trucks, aside from the obvious car body differences. Heck, there are several versions of the three axle flexicoil trucks that were used under SD45s. It will be interesting to see which version is produced. Howver, I think both the SD45s and SD45-2s used the same type of builders plates.
Tom, is that PC SD 45 some shade of green or is it black hiding under road dirt that makes it look green?
Andrew, I would like to see anything in GN Big Sky Blue but with the amount of negative feelings demonstrated toward that colorful paint scheme I doubt the manufacturers will ever produce anything in that scheme.
ecd15 posted:DennyM posted:I would like a BNSF, Erie Lakawanna, Union Pacific or Southern Pacific. Be nice if they came out with a Rock Island and Lehigh Valley too.
There were never any prototype SD45s painted for the Lehigh Valley. Not that that matters for toy trains.
Also, SD45-2s are a different length than SD45s and use different trucks, aside from the obvious car body differences. Heck, there are several versions of the three axle flexicoil trucks that were used under SD45s. It will be interesting to see which version is produced. Howver, I think both the SD45s and SD45-2s used the same type of builders plates.
Some SP 45's had two different trucks on the same locomotive!
coach joe posted:Tom, is that PC SD 45 some shade of green or is it black hiding under road dirt that makes it look green?
Technically, PC locomotives were painted DGLE (Dark Green Locomotive Enamel.) In other words - Black! My understanding is that if you took a VERY clean PC locomotive out in bright sunlight and looked at it at a certain angle, you could detect a hint of green.
The road grime makes the locomotive pictured have a green cast. I like my locos weathered, but not that much!
Tom
Probably a long shot, but I love the look of these three. They just look ready to muscle something somewhere.
