1939 SW1 Diesel Locomotives
Model Manufacturer Info
Manufacturer:
Locomotive Workshop
Prototype Info
Category:
SW1
Year/Era:
1939
Manufacturer:
Electro-Motive Division (EMD)
Dimensions:
44'11"
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Model Info
Gauge:
S
Introduced:
1981
Product Type:
Etched-brass Kit
Finish:
unpainted
Power:
No Chassis
Supplemental:
Notes:
The kit consisted of the body parts, truck sideframes, and the bolsters. The power chassis was left up to the modeler. Cascade Hobby Products provided power specifically for this locomotive, consisting of a Sagami motor, gearbox with Delrin chain and gears, Hobbytown universals, Lindsay truck gearboxes, and brass-investment-cast AAR Type A sideframes (early editions of the Cascade kit required the use of the white-metal cast sideframes that Locomotive Workshop provided with those releases of the kit).
(image copyright © Dick Karnes; used by permission)
Model Manufacturer Info
Manufacturer:
Oriental Limited
Factory:
Samhongsa, Korea
Prototype Info
Category:
SW1
Year/Era:
1939
Manufacturer:
Electro-Motive Division (EMD)
Dimensions:
44'11"
Ext. Reference:
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Model Info
Gauge:
S
Introduced:
1985
Product Type:
Brass
Finish:
unpainted
Power:
DC
Wheels:
scale
Online Article:
Notes:
These were produced in four different phase versions:
Phase I (1938): front arched cab windows, flat hood section in front of cab, two short exhaust stacks.
Phase II (1945): front arched cab windows, flat hood section in front of cab, one tall exhaust stack.
Phase III (1949): front arched cab windows, angled hood section in front of cab, one tall exhaust stack.
Phase IV (1950): front horizontal-top cab windows, angled hood section in front of cab, one tall exhaust stack.
Phase V (1953): front horizontal-top cab windows, angled hood section in front of cab, one tall exhaust stack, openings in step guards, sealed twin headlights added.
The model actually sits in its suspension, giving it amazing pulling power.
(image copyright © Brian Jackson; used by permission)
(image copyright © Paul Washburn; used by permission)
(image copyright © Ed Loizeaux; used by permission)
(image copyright © Bill Winans; used by permission)
(image copyright © Bill Lane; used by permission)
(image copyright © Ed Loizeaux; used by permission)
Model Manufacturer Info
Manufacturer:
Super Scale Models
Prototype Info
Category:
SW1
Year/Era:
1939
Manufacturer:
Electro-Motive Division (EMD)
Dimensions:
44'11"
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Model Info
Gauge:
S
Product Type:
Metal Kit
Finish:
unpainted
Power:
No Chassis
Notes:
The cab and hood were brass etchings then formed and soldered together. The mechanism is on a cast brass frame made up from Miller trucks with Omnicon gearboxes. The motor is a Pittman DC-71 connected to a flywheel and a gear train down to the worm shaft of one truck only.
(image copyright © Ed Kirstatter; used by permission)