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Good Evening Matt,
 
Guessing on my part, the bulge is for more equipment to help meet the EPA Tier 4 requirements for 2015.
 
What I was trying to say is, I’d like to see Lionel offer the current prototype ES44AC with the plastic shell in UP and BNSF.
 
Sorry, sometimes what I think is not what I write!
 
Best Regards,
Frank
 
Andrew, you and I are of the same mind.  I know we both want some National Steel Car intermodal!!!
 
Originally Posted by falconservice:

What about a Premier and RailKing version of the Trinity RailCar 5160 Cu. Ft. 3-Bay Covered Hoppers and Articulated Intermodal well cars being made before a new General Electric?

 

Andrew

 

 

Originally Posted by AGHRMatt:

 Any idea what's under the "bulge"?

This explanation is from another forum:

 

"The raised hood between the engine air intake and radiator houses exhaust gas recirculation equipment and associated cooling, much as is in the much larger hump on SD59M-2 UP 9900.... In earlier tier 4 GE prototypes, this area contained selective catalytic reduction equipment and urea injection equipment."

 

Mark

Originally Posted by Martin H:
Andrew, you and I are of the same mind.  I know we both want some National Steel Car intermodal!!!
 
Originally Posted by falconservice:

What about a Premier and RailKing version of the Trinity RailCar 5160 Cu. Ft. 3-Bay Covered Hoppers and Articulated Intermodal well cars being made before a new General Electric?

 

Andrew

 

 

You and me both.  I would love to see the NSC cars made.  But until they do I am in the process of trying to make them out of styrene. 

Originally Posted by Martin H:
Why?  This isn't the hybrid loco, which was a failed experiment and never went into production, anyways.
 
 
Originally Posted by laz1957:

I wonder if this will have the lashing charging lights? If so I'm in.

 

I doubt production units (if the hybrid would have made it that far) would've had the "charging lights" anyway.  They served no useful purpose other than as a demo feature and would have been something else to maintain.

Rusty

I used to despise modern 6 axle diesel engines, but man I have seen the light!  These things are sexy and modern.  I'm so enamored with these units now I have gone from an 80s-90s modeller of Chessie early CSX to modern CSX.  Been able to pick up a CSX Dash8 YN3, CW4400 YN3 and the new PS3 ES44AC YN3b (box car logo).  I'm in heaven!  Also the paint scheme on these demo units are simply breathtaking.  Here's to MTH firing these up in PS3!

I agree that production units would almost certainly NOT have charging lights.  They would serve absolutely no useful purpose.  HOWEVER, they sure look great on the models! 

 

I doubt that I would buy yet another model though (the 2015, which is the subject of this thread, for example) unless it was made in a different paint scheme.

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