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Title: O GAUGE GS-4 AMERICAN FREEDOM
Post by: Mikado on June 04, 2011, 11:23:45 AM
I searched the net for a photo of the O-Gauge GS-4 Willimas made in American Freedom colors but can't find any.   I know they made one.  Does anyone have photos?....or links to photos?  I think the model number was gs4-102.

This link shows the Western Pacific and SP Daylight colors, but not the American Freedom.

http://postwar.com/WilliamsTrains/locos/daylight.htm
Title: Re: O GAUGE GS-4 AMERICAN FREEDOM
Post by: Joe Satnik on June 04, 2011, 12:13:45 PM
Dear Mikado,

http://web.archive.org/web/20080116081437/http://www.williamstrains.com/HTML/TL_GS4.htm

Not sure how to get the pics to stop changing.  

Scroll to bottom for a thumbnail.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Joe Satnik
Title: Re: O GAUGE GS-4 AMERICAN FREEDOM
Post by: Mikado on June 04, 2011, 12:38:07 PM
Much appreciated!  Do you know if they are still being made?
Title: Re: O GAUGE GS-4 AMERICAN FREEDOM
Post by: ACY on June 04, 2011, 02:00:45 PM
Currently Williams makes these steam locos in their Golden Memories line:
J Class 4-8-4 Norfolk & Western #746
Berkshire 2-8-4 726 Luxury Lines
773 Hudson 4-6-4 New York Central #773
Semi-Scale O-27 HUDSON 4-6-4 New York Central #2056
S-2 6-8-6 Turbine Pennsylvania #671
S-2 6-8-6 Turbine Pennsylvania #681

And these in their Traditional line:
Berkshire 2-8-4
GS4 4-8-4
J Class 4-8-4
S-2 6-8-6 Turbine
Scale Hudson 4-6-4
Semi-Scale O-27 Hudson 4-6-4

The 4-8-4 J class locos include:
J Class 4-8-4 Baltimore & Ohio - Royal Blue
J Class 4-8-4 Santa Fe Blue Goose
J Class 4-8-4 Baltimore & Ohio® -Cincinattian
J Class 4-8-4 Canadian National
J Class 4-8-4 New Haven
J Class 4-8-4 Pennsylvania

The 4-8-4 GS-4 is the
GS-4 4-8-4 Southern Pacific™
in the following scheme only:
(http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/products/images/uploads/40001.jpg)
Title: Re: O GAUGE GS-4 AMERICAN FREEDOM
Post by: Joe Satnik on June 04, 2011, 06:15:39 PM
Mikado,

I presumed you knew your old item numbers were obsolete and the pictures/links you (and I) found were from archives.

As ACY has pointed out, WBB no longer offers AF colors.    

If you want to phone the shops on the old (pre-Bachmann) Williams dealer list for possible NOS still on shelves:

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20070305081733/http://www.williamstrains.com/HTML/FindADealer.html

Otherwise, you'll have to wait for one to come up on an auction website.    

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Joe Satnik

Edit: Thanks, ACY