1998 Diesel Locomotives by S-Helper Service

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00092

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted, not lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Notes:

Black body color.

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00095

Additional IDs:

00096

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Amtrak

Model Info

Introduced:

1998

Product Type:

(not produced)

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Notes:

This entry is here to remind us of the fact that you might find it listed in old catalogs or newsletters. Don Thompson reported that there appeared to be no interest in this engine decorated for Amtrak.

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00119

Additional IDs:

00120

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

2421, 2432

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00093

Additional IDs:

00094

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Atlantic Coast Line (ACL)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

711, 652

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00098

Additional IDs:

00097

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Baltimore & Ohio (B&O)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

602, 611

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00100

Additional IDs:

00099

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Boston & Maine (BM)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

1222, 1231

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Holt painted the bell a brass color on his model.

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00102

Additional IDs:

00101

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Burlington Northern (BN)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

248, 161

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Notes:

S-Helper's records show this road number as 162, yet the photo clearly shows it as 248.

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00104

Additional IDs:

00103

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

7402, 7401

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Notes:

According to CPR modelers, to make these models correct, these should have barrel lights, and numberboards on the front to the side of the headlight.

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00426

Additional IDs:

00427

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

5093, 5084

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Jace Kahn bought this model second-hand, and it had been damaged previously. Jace restored it back to its original. The only thing not stock are the rear handrails and the painted color of the handrails (the stock ones were factory-painted black).

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00148

Additional IDs:

00108

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Chessie System (B&O)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

9602, 9601

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00107

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Chessie System (C&O)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

5091

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Jonathan Hatfield installed the QSI Titan DCC sound decoder, and tests it in this video.

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00100

Additional IDs:

00109

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Chicago & North Western (CNW)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

1122, 1101

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00106

Additional IDs:

00105

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CBQ)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

9271, 9270

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

This was the lead photo that S-Helper Service used on their initial home page for their web site. The photo was commissioned by them from Bob Werre.

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00111

Additional IDs:

00112

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Conrail (CR)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

8951, 8922

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00430

Additional IDs:

00431

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Denver & Rio Grande Western (D&RGW)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

133, 134

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00114

Additional IDs:

00113

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Erie Lackawanna (EL)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

452, 435

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Notes:

For road number 435 SHS' records show it as road number 451.

Doing switching duties on Chris Monje's layout. Starts at about the 3:30 mark.

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00428

Additional IDs:

00429

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Great Northern (GN)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

14, 15

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00433

Additional IDs:

00432

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Illinois Central Gulf (ICG)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

1234, 1223

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Shows the model nicely weathered.

The model shown is one of the ICG models that Holt Apgar stripped and repainted for the NH. Holt adds that the SHS ICG SW9, with its orange cab, is a good repaint subject for the NH SW1200. Externally the two engines are identical. He hand-painted two coats of Model Master black enamel, with orange and white trim. Lettering and numbers came from Microscale decals and various dry transfers. Prototype photos confirm the scheme and numbers. The New Haven RR SW1200 yard switchers, #s 640 - 659, were the first EMD diesels ordered by the NH after years of Alco orders. They arrived in 1956, in the new black and orange McGinnis scheme, and served for 20+ years into the Conrail era.

After installing the Soundtraxx Tsunami2 2200, Chuck Kemper is testing his model on his layout.

Another run of this engine on Chuck's layout.

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

01501 (DC)

Additional IDs:

01505 (DCC), 01503 (Locomatic), 01502 (DC), 01506 (DCC), 01504 (Locomatic)

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Maine Central (MEC)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

334, 335

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Notes:

Road number 335 was SHS' 2004 Christmas engine.

Running this engine on a friend's hi-rail layout.

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00115

Additional IDs:

00116

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

New York Central (NYC)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

8951, 8922

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00435

Additional IDs:

00434

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Northern Pacific (NP)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

135, 133

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00117

Additional IDs:

00118

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1951

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

8521, 8522

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00436

Additional IDs:

00437

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Union Pacific (UP)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

1833, 1854

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

S-Helper Service

Manufacturer ID:

00121

Additional IDs:

00122

Prototype Info

Category:

SW9

Year/Era:

1950

Manufacturer:

Electro-Motive Division (EMD)

Road Name:

Union Pacific (UP)

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1998

Road Number:

1841, 1862

Product Type:

Plastic

Finish:

painted & lettered

Power:

DC, DCC with sound, Locomatic with sound

Wheels:

scale and hi-rail

Couplers:

AF & scale

Supplemental:

Supplemental Information