1940 Center Cab Industrial Switchers

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

Locomotive Workshop

Prototype Info

Category:

Center Cab

Year/Era:

1940

Weight:

44-ton

Model Info

Gauge:

Sn3

Introduced:

1975

Product Type:

Metal Kit

Finish:

unpainted

Wheels:

scale

Supplemental:

Notes:

Narrow-gauge version (a standard-gauge version was also produced).

(image copyright © Ken Garber; used by permission)

This is part of the model that Ken was able to find at an S-Spree show. He has cleaned it up in preparation for painting. This particular model came with one Tyco truck, and is gauged for narrow-gauge (the original kit was designed to use an HO-scale truck).

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

Locomotive Workshop

Prototype Info

Category:

Center Cab

Year/Era:

1940

Weight:

44-ton

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1975

Product Type:

Metal Kit

Finish:

unpainted

Wheels:

scale

Online Article:

Notes:

This is the standard-gauge version (a narrow-gauge version was also produced). Arden Goehring's model is shown in the Spring 1987 issue of the NASG's Dispatch on page 15.

(image copyright © Tony Dixon; used by permission)

(image copyright © Tony Dixon; used by permission)

(image copyright © Tony Dixon; used by permission)

(image copyright © Tony Dixon; used by permission)

(image copyright © Tony Dixon; used by permission)

(image copyright © Tony Dixon; used by permission)

(image copyright © Jace Kahn; used by permission)

(image copyright © Jace Kahn; used by permission)

(image copyright © Jace Kahn; used by permission)

(image copyright © Jace Kahn; used by permission)

Model Manufacturer Info

Manufacturer:

River Raisin Models

Manufacturer ID:

OMI-1780

Factory:

Ajin Precision, Korea

Prototype Info

Category:

Center Cab

Year/Era:

1940

Manufacturer:

General Electric

Weight:

44-ton

Model Info

Gauge:

S

Introduced:

1993

Qty Made:

175 (45 unpainted, 100 gray primer, 30 black primer)

Product Type:

Brass

Finish:

painted

Wheels:

scale

Magazine Article:

S/Sn3 Modeling Guide, April 1998 (couplers)

Magazine Article:

S Gaugian, Jan 1993 (prototype)

Online Article:

Online Article:

(image copyright © Trevor Marshall; used by permission)

Trevor added details and decals appropriate for the Canadian National.

(image copyright © Trevor Marshall; used by permission)

(image copyright © Bill Lane; used by permission)

(image copyright © Bill Lane; used by permission)

(image copyright © Bill Lane; used by permission)

(image copyright © Ed Sauers; used by permission)

One of the factory gray-primer painted version.

Trevor Marshall tests his model with a Soundtraxx TSU-750 DCC sound decoder installed.

Trevor's model fully painted and detailed making its first revenue run.

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