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RE: (erielack) Life-Like Erie PA's in black/yellow

Paul-

Athearn makes an RDC-1 in HO and of course if either one of the two damn
rubber bands break, the model can be immediately dumped in the garbage.
(Why don't they redo the motive part of it?)

Their Trainmaster, however is another story.  I have three (3) Trainmasters
in the various livery:  #1856 in DL&W original colors gray, maroon and
yellow; #1853  - Erie-Lackawanna original scheme - black & yellow and #1858
in Erie Lackawanna later scheme - gray, maroon and yellow.  Yes, yes,
before anybody gets excited #1856 is the EL number, but I'm running EL and
had to number it that instead of the original #856 because of the overlap
of numbers in PA's.  All three models are very good looking (custom painted
by people other than me), but the best looking one is the DL&W scheme.
I'll try to take some decent pictures of them and get them off to you.

Yes, I want an SDP-45, too and am trying to put together a Rail Power
SD45-2 body on an Athearn chassis. (I'll never do that again).

- -Joe Jordan


At 05:56 PM 6/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>How about a DLW Trainmaster, or better yet an EL SDP45 or an SD45-2 in the
>>near future?  Unfortuneatly, the potential market for these units (except
>>possibly the Trainmaster) will be somewhat small and may not justify a
>>production run for them due to the extremely limited acceptance by the
>>prototype when the units were introduced.
>
>I'm really surprised that Life-Like (or anyone else, for that matter) hasn't
>done a really nice:
>
>	1) Trainmaster
>	2) RDC-1/RDC-3
>
>Of course, there were two relatively distinct phases of the Trainmaster,
>making that one a little harder.
>
>As for an SDP45, forget it! An EL-only item (at least with that style of
>end). The SD45-2 might be nice, though (even though EL's had the extra-size
>fuel tanks)....
>
>	- Paul
>
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