Hi Yardmaster,
I am looking forward to the release of the new diesel shortly.
I haven't been able to find any details about the physical size of the model.
Would you please tell us the overall length and width, and the height above the rails.
Thanking you,
RGS Goose.
Don't have one handy to measure at the moment. When one becomes available I will post the info.
Okay got ahold of one briefly today. Here are the dimensions:
Length - 7.5"
Width - 2"
Height - 3.25"
Hi Yardmaster,
Thank you very much for coming up with those figures so quickly.
I will do my homework on them now, and look forward to seeing one here.
RGS Goose.
Also Thanks for the dimensions from this side of the pond,
We await them also!
Is there a prototype for the new 50-ton diesel? I model circa 1930's but most of the double-hood Whitcombs were around WW2 vintage.
Ken
Closest thing I see to a prototype might be the Oahu Railways has a couple of 3-foot gauge center cab Whitcombs. But none of the ones I looked at quite matched up to the pictures online, the cab is not quite right for any of them, and I don't think any had the same shape counterweights either.
It's possible the proportions look off because most of the ones I found pictures of were standard gauge, even the Hawaiian ones were the same width and visibly wider than the cars they pulled.
That said, they were building these as early as 1940, so if you bump your era up a little bit you can probably justify them.
I am not aware if the pre production pictures if the new diesel have been published anywhere, but one of our retailers here in the UK has pics of all 4 showing their colour schemes,
Take a look at www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com go to the 0n30 section on the left of the home page then go to the 3rd page of the STEAM loco section!! (They o have used the incorrect section) click the thumbnails to enlarge .
I guess that the Black one may prove to be the best seller??
Thanks for posting info on the new diesels. Only one that looks good to me, the yellow version and that is just barely acceptable. I would most likely buy one and modify it somewhat to look better in my eyes anyway... Cheers, T O F
The cream and orange one is a real paint scheme, used by the Salzberg group on their shortlines - Wellsville, Addison & Galeton, Des Moines & Central Iowa, Lousiana & North West, Southern New York, and many others. No narrow gauge that I'm aware of, but it's not that much of a stretch.
Be nice if there was an undecorated, though, I got the little gas-mechanical in undec and painted it, if this came undec I could paint it to match.
Quote from: lvrr325 on November 04, 2013, 03:20:53 AM
The cream and orange one is a real paint scheme, used by the Salzberg group on their shortlines - Wellsville, Addison & Galeton, Des Moines & Central Iowa, Lousiana & North West, Southern New York, and many others. No narrow gauge that I'm aware of, but it's not that much of a stretch.
Be nice if there was an undecorated, though, I got the little gas-mechanical in undec and painted it, if this came undec I could paint it to match.
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These should not present any problem to repaint, I have repainted quite a lot of brightly painted and unacceptable liveried locos in G & 0n30 even a few H0 ones as well.
Removal of lettering is usually quite easy, then a couple of coats of grey primer and then any colour you want to use ( in my case its usually Matt Black )
I think the only one with any lettering on it is the one that comes black.
I saw this loco at the national narrow gauge convention in Pasadena CA. It is a nice locomotive and is quite heavy. It's going to make a lot of people happy, and with it's weight pull a long string of cars.
Quote from: piglet on November 04, 2013, 10:53:45 PM
I saw this loco at the national narrow gauge convention in Pasadena CA. It is a nice locomotive and is quite heavy. It's going to make a lot of people happy, and with it's weight pull a long string of cars.
Thats good information it can't be far away then! Or can it??!!