...I'd be awfully tempted to pick up one of these weirdo Kato/Lemke "NOHAB MY1125" units - Apparently there was (or still is) one of these guys running around in Europe in Great Northern livery. Not sure if Kato/Lemke did that one, though. Cheers, -Mark
Mark, I am a Santa Fe guy and I'm running for cover.... But there is a prototype for everything. Seriously, NOHAB, a Swedish manufacturer, built these in the fifties an sixties under a GM license, and they found their way into several countries, including Hungary. They were good and dependable locos and have a bit of a cult following. You can Google Nohab Santa Fe or Nohab Great Northern and get a ton of photos. Personally, the I find GN scheme more palatable, but that's probably because I am a Santa Fe guy... regards, Otto K.
Definitely a different looking loco. But like you if I was a ATSF guy I would have to pick one up; I got a thing for the unusual.
Ahh, really! No way in hades I'ma going to add one of these to my Santa Fe Fleet. And, I like the unusual but not bizarre. Sigh!
I thought of getting one but the typical 'it's European no matter where or who makes it' price convinced me to pass in favor of things I really wanted. It does show how well known and liked around the world the Warbonnet scheme became though. Here's and Australian take off of the cat whisker freight scheme. http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=336922&nseq=10
I remember doing something like this about 4 years ago with a couple of OLD bachmann f units I believe. 2 different roadnames...neither ran. The shells where so oversized it was hillarious! I cut each shell to the right lenght...ground the squared off rear part of the frame round so the shell would fit. It ended up as a static display on the layout. When the grankids would come over and point and asked what it was....I just told em its "THE Whatchamacallit" ROFLMAO !!
Hmm, I didn't know that they painted one up in Santa Fe colors. Even though I am a Santa Fe fan, I'm not so sure about that one though. Seems a bit strange.
Even something as homely as that droopy hound dog sorrowful look can be improved in Empire Builder paint scheme.
Mark, If you were a Santa Fe Guy, you would be a better person, but you would also be looking for an industrial sized can of mind eraser to get rid of that image. Bill Pearce
I'm sure in Europe these are familiar and looked upon with fondness. Double-headed locomotives are quite common there. But for us in the States it looks like the collision of an E-Unit, C-Liner, and GG1. Dr. Frankenstein would be proud.
Yet they avoid the paint scheme that would look halfway prototypical: http://baldwindiesels.railfan.net/cnj/cnj2000.jpg
