Alaska Railroad

[uscgtanker]

will you be releasing the SD70's in the Alaska Railroad Paint scheme. as from 2001 to now their main road power has been 28 SD70s and GP40s.   

[the Bach-man]

Dear Coastie,
Good idea- I'll pass it along!
Thanks!
the Bach-man

[Bas]

Hello Bach-man

And if you could also whisper in their ears that the F7 in blue-yellow Alaska painting would be more then welcome :-)

Regards

Bas

[jward]

Alaska also had gp35s and gp7s.........you could do almost the entire roster with Bachmann locomotives.

[clan line 35028]

You guys do make all the motive power the ARR had since the 1980's and the double deck passenger cars they have on their passenger trains. and its a simple paint scheme to do to. I would love to see SD70s pull the McKinley express around my railway.

[Yuriilev]

Alaska RR has a few dome coaches similar to the McKinley Explorer/Denali Princess cars, with the exception that they have open platforms on one end similar to the lower level ones on the current cars, even painting the currently-tooled cars in ARR colors would be better than nothing.
Here are some links of the cars:
http://www.alaskarails.org/fp/passenger/goldstar/index.html
http://www.trainweb.org/ultradomes/arr/651.html
http://www.trainweb.org/ultradomes/arr/652.html


Also, the Royal Gorge "William Jackson Palmer Coach" model is similar to the coaches as well as the one counter-cafe and diner built by Enprotech Corporation of New York, a wholly owned subsidiary of C. Itoh of America, Inc., a division of C. Itoh of Japan, one of the world's largest trading companies, and Daewoo Heavy Industries of Korea, a major manufacturer of machinery, rail equipment and automobiles in Korea.
The major differences are that the ARR coaches have a vestibule/steps at one end instead of two, and have large A/C housings on the roof at both ends. The counter-cafe has no steps/vestibule, but a side door with ladder step, probably for crew access when loading supplies; the diner has what appears to be a standard vestibule & steps at one end, and the roof details may be a little different. And of course, all three car types have noticeably different window arrangements from the Royal Gorge coach tooling.
Here are links to pics of the cars-
Coaches:
http://www.alaskarails.org/fp/passenger/JC-205.jpg
http://www.alaskarails.org/fp/passenger/JC-206.jpg

Counter-Cafe:
http://www.alaskarails.org/fp/passenger/JC-301.jpg

Diner:
http://www.alaskarails.org/fp/passenger/JC-401.jpg

If you are willing to tool up a coach specifically for just the Royal Gorge tourist train, I hope you would be willing to consider doing similar tooling for the ARR cars, they would be popular for those modeling 'regular' Alaska RR trains as well as the Denali Star trains with the Denali Princess and McKinley Explorer cars.

[Yuriilev]

will you be releasing the SD70's in the Alaska Railroad Paint scheme. as from 2001 to now their main road power has been 28 SD70s and GP40s.   

If you are talking about the SD70ACe's, they are not the same as the Alaska RR units, which are SD70MAC's and have several visual differences.