What "One of a Kind" Engine Would You Like To See Produced

Don:  Not quite a "one-of-a-kind" locomotive but only 10 were built, is a Milwaukee Road, Baldwin Westinghouse box cab electric motor.  I know that you would opt for one of these, too, because they really provided yeoman service for passenger trains on the Montana Division.

They were huge, very t all and imposing locomotives with a kind of "prow" for the cab ends.  I'd like to see a model of one in the final modification that appeared, after the reinforcing plates and rivest were applied to the truck frames.  I think that these engines would appeal to both the Milwaukee Road fans but also the electric locomotive fans.  I'm trying to talk Weaver into having these engines built in brass as their next project.  some support from you guys would be helpful.

Paul Fischer

Good Day,

My idea of a 21st Century GP70ACe. Modified and created from several Michael Eby drawings.

Regards,

Swafford

Gentelemen,

    I do not want to see any of them reproduced, they should remain one of a kind.

PCRR/Dave

I would like to see a Krauss-Maffei ML4000..The first 4,000hp locomotive in the USA.

Paul, I have also contacted them about the Westinghouse motor. CRH, I know where the SP engine is. Brightside yard in Calif. Don

A Union Pacific Salt Lake Route SD70ACe Heritage locomotive.

Don,

I'd love to see a GE 70 ton switcher. Bachman started to make them in HO after testing the N-scale market. I would buy at least three to start. I'd paint them in the, M&ET early, mid, and late paint.

I might go for the Krauss-Maffei. It's so ugly it's cute. Almost looks cyberpunk.

Anybody for the Pennsy DD2?

Bob

Looks more like an R1 to me, i.e. the ONLY 4-8-4 the PRR ever had.

Yes, the overall profile is very similar. Here's the R1:

Bob

A face only a mother could love.....

 I would love that too.  My grandfather worked in the Englewood yard in Houston when these first shipped over from Germany.  He told stories of them taking off for California and how they didn't even pull the slack out, just took the whole line and once increasing speed the whole way.  They were huge at the time.

Unfortunately for him, he only saw them when they first arrived since the were destined for west coast service.

Fairbanks-Morse and St. Louis Car Company collaborated on this experimental center cab built for the Reading:

Bob

A Baldwin CNJ baby face would be nice.....I concur!

Peter

Here are two one-of-a-kind Amtrak locomotives: electrics from Sweden and France which were tested prior to the development of the AEM7, due in large part to the favorable impression made by the Swedish Rc4.

Bob

Here are two other unique electrics which appeared along the Northeast Corridor during the same general time frame as the Amtrak locomotives pictured above. These are the experimental EMD GM6C and GM10B and were tested in Conrail freight service. Conrail did not place an order and the 1975 and 1976 were scrapped. Shortly thereafter, Conrail eliminated electric freight operations.

Bob

Clark Autotram

Pennsy DD2 and N&W M2 automatic would both be kool . 

Ahh, but which version of this locomotive should they build?  The "carbody" version (the one pictured and the first 6 ordered between Rio Grande & SP) or the "hood version" in the link (more common and comprised of the remaining 12 ordered?)

http://espee.railfan.net/nonin...4000-john_rosser.jpg

How about the Pennsy HC1? Bonus if it manages to break couplers like the prototype...

Ditto again on the IC Green Diamond. The only version I have seen is the Pride lines toylike tinplate o-gauge from the late 1990s. Another I would buy is the odd early UP diesel streamliners SF-3 or SF-4 or 5, the ones with long hoods and automobile like grilles, definitely short lived styling curiousities with their own unique charm (to me anyway).

Texas SP, there is one at the Brightside Yard in California, #9010. It was the one they converted to a camera engine for training engineers. The project was never finished. Don

Scale Rail..Tonight Brian Williams said, the 3 worst cities to retire in are

              Honolulu, Hawaii

              Los Angeles, CA &

              Bridgeport, CT

 What do you think about that?

Well Eddie G, if I lived in Honolulu or even close I would have an opinion. But you see we don't live there. We live on a different island called Maui. We live in Kaanapali just north of Lahaina. We have never locked our doors. We walk to the ocean. We watch the most beautiful sunsets with friends every Saturday night on the beach with a nice glass of wine and our dogs. We see the whales breaching from our bedroom. We sail our kayak in warm clear water. We have the cleanest air in all the world because it crosses the ocean. So Eddie why did you bring this up? It has nothing to do with trains. My advise to you is don't get your info from television. 

Don't forget to lock your doors with the three dead bolts! And by the way do you have this view from your bedroom? All my best, Don

I'd like to see the Hammerhead!  It was first the Pennsy's, made it somehow to the LV, and then made it to Conrail's roster.

PRRfan, K-line made one in PRR. TMCC, the works.....Don