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RE: (erielack) Will we ever see a HO Scale SDP45 in plastic???

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I stand corrected about the SD45-2 shell.  Thanks, Paul.

I guess the bottom line for me is that if Athearn thinks there is a big enough market for a UP Gas Turbine in the Genesis line, then perhaps the group should prepare a case for the SDP45.  I find it hard to believe they would sell more models of gas turbines (one road name for a relatively short time) than SDP45s (several road names, some still in service 30 years later).

- -pat
  

- -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
>
> > > It might just boil down to whether or not someone wants to do
> > > a locomotive that has never been done before.  If Walthers
> > > can give us an RS27 and Atlas can give us an RS36, and
> > > Athearn can do an EL-specific SD45-2, then there is hope that
> > > Athearn would give us an SDP45.  It's too bad that Rail Power
> > > never did a shell because maybe then we'd already have it,
> > > like with the SD45-2.
> > 
> > The Athearn SD45-2 is all-new tooling - I believe they tossed the RPP
> > SD45-2 shell out the window. :)
> > 
> > Which is good news for a possible new-tooling SDP45, I suppose! :)
> > 
> > 	- Paul
> 
One does hope that they considered the possibility that with a modular mold, and 
> appropriate
inserts, they could achieve the variants.  As someone else in this thread noted, 
> there are
sufficient road names, including a few biggies, such as SP and UP, which have 
> been applied to them
> that the market goes far beyond the modelers of the EL.
> 
> Now, if only PRR had had a few . . . . 8^)
> 
> SGL
> 
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