Commission: Revisiting a GE 70t in S...
I completed the build of this model for a customer during the first lockdown last year, and held on to it for a month or so until I could safely post it in the summer...
Based in Canada, he has had a friend paint and finish her for his north eastern based short-line layout “It will be the sole piece of equipment on a planned S scale mini layout” he tells me. “The 3 mile long Northeastern line will service a chair factory, gravel pit, and an apple juice/cider operation”.
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What the heck?! This is beautiful. That Salberg cream and orange paint is just beautiful. And it's in S and it's headed to Canada? Small world.
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Some food for thought James: the Grand Falls Central, also known as the Botwood Railway, was an industrial branch line on the 3'6" gauge Newfoundland railway that ran a small fleet of GE 70 ton switchers with dark red hoods and orange cabs and frames. Apart from the narrower gauge and some interesting M-U end handrails, they were otherwise identical to the standard gauge locos. I've often thought that the Smokey Valley kit would be a sight to behold in Sn3.5 representing one of these beasts. Well worth looking up and having a read, there's plenty of photos and information online.
ReplyDeleteHaving a copy of Bill Linley’s Newfoundland album I’m familiar with them… I think they were very early 70t, IIRC the hoods or cab are a subtly different shape. I did wonder about doing one though!
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