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Flash Gordon's Locomotive

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scsshaggy
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Posted - August 22 2015 : 5:53:19 PM

The Southern Michigan RR has an old GM switcher styled to look about like Flash Gordon's rocket ship. It's not the engine they normally use, but it's amusing to see an industrial switcher that looks like it was designed for 300 MPH.

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kovacste000
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Posted - August 22 2015 : 8:32:04 PM

That thing looks pretty cool looking and funny.

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Posted - August 24 2015 : 10:41:32 AM

That's awesome. Hopefully it's being preserved or something. It doesn't even look like it's sitting on track.

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Posted - August 24 2015 : 3:11:00 PM

is it me or do this look like a EU type of loco?

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catfordken
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Posted - August 24 2015 : 3:30:47 PM

hope this helps,it was made for american market

The GMD GMDH-3 was an experimental diesel-hydraulic switching locomotive built in January 1960 by General Motors Diesel of Canada. Only one example was built, with GMD serial number A1813.The locomotive was essentially the GMDH-1 design but with only a single hood, a single engine and an end cab, mounted on a six-wheel chassis.

The locomotive served as a demonstrator for GMD, bearing number #275, between 1960 and 1962, including a period in Egypt, but no sales resulted.The locomotive was sold in 1963 to McKinnon Industries of St. Catharines, Ontario as their plant switcher, #2128.After nearly 30 years of service, it was sold in 1992 to the South Simcoe Railway, a heritage museum railway, in Tottenham, Ontario, but in 1995 it was declared surplus to requirements by the railway's directors.After a fund-raising effort, the Southern Michigan Railroad Society purchased the locomotive in 1996, where it remains in operable condition as of 2006.As of June 2015, GMDH-3 had been repainted in two-tone blue, and is still parked in Clinton, MI awaiting funds for restoration.
gmdh-1
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if you fancy making a model of it check this out
http://www.shapeways.com/product/UKU2FSD4C/1-87-gmd-gmdh-1-locomotive

Edited by - catfordken on August 24 2015 3:39:20 PM

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