SP GPs?

Hello zere,

Can anyone tell me if there ever were or will soon be AZL GP7 or the MT GP9 versions in the grey/red color scheme of the Southern Pacific (I believe it is called black widow or red nose?) ?

thanks,
Matt

Matt,

MTL offered the black widow scheme in the GP9s.



I am trying to remember if they offered the GP9 in the bloody nose scheme.

AZL has not offered their GP7 in SP. The did offer their GP30s in the SP bloody nose scheme.



Rob

Rob,
MTL maintains a product database online: www.micro-trains.com/data_base.php
Real handy for questions like this.
Mark

Matt,
The scheme you're talking about is called the "bloody nose". MTL did a couple of GP-35s in this scheme (981 01 091 & 981 01 092) and an SD40-2 (970 01 110). Unfortunately all are currently out of production.

Mark

markm wrote: ...called the "bloody nose". MTL did a couple of GP-35s in this scheme (981 01 091 & 981 01 092) and an SD40-2 (970 01 110). Unfortunately all are currently out of production. Mark

As long as you mentioned the SD40-2, we might as well mention MTL also did an F7 in a bloody nose scheme (980 01 170), also OOP.

Thanks Rob, Mark, Joe. I guess the answer is no... too bad.
The database is a good help indeed.

Mmm, while we´re at it... another question before I go: can anyone of you tell me up to what period the new Freight cars "PFE" by MTL (four pack) were used?

Matt

Matt glad to help

Here is the description MTL posted with their first release of the PFE reefers. I believe the 4 packs is based on the same series.

These 40' wood-sheathed reefers with flush doors and vertical brakewheels are a new bodystyle offered by Micro-Trains. They are painted box car red with reefer yellow sides. They bear a 1925 paint scheme with SP medallion on the left side of the car and the UP “The Overland Route” shield on the right of the car. The end print is white; lettering and hardware are black. They were built in 1907 American Car & Foundry, rebuilt in February 1928, and run on Bettendorf trucks. They were originally built by ACF in 1907 as Class R-30-2 and included as part of the large series 1-6600 (class R-30-1s & R-30-2s). Pacific Fruit Express’s order for the series of 6,600 cars was the largest in U.S. history.

Rob

Matt,
You'll still find the SP GPs on the used market from time-to-time.
As for the refrigerator cars, I remember seeing them in Truckee CA and Longmont CO as late as 1965. If you check out the histories of the Burlington and ART versions on the MTL new release page, they were being serviced and updated as late as 1963. However, the two digit road numbers in the 4-pack suggests to me that early 20th century would be a more appropriate time frame for them.

Mark