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 Posted - April 30 2007 : 5:36:29 PM
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OK, mystery locomotive:
/tyco/forum/uploaded/romcat/Mystery Diesel.jpg
Any ideas? European? Kitbash???
Ebay link:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/KATO-UNMARKED-CENTER-CABIN-DIESEL-LOCOMOTIVE-MINT_W0QQitemZ160110437820QQihZ006QQcategoryZ19134QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Posted - April 30 2007 : 5:59:41 PM
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http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr26/pdf/photo.pdf (Warning: PDF file).
It's an older Japanese freight locomotive, "DD51" class. Prototypbe built from 1962-1977. Kinda makes sense that the model would be by Kato, then [:)]
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Posted - April 30 2007 : 6:02:38 PM
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Outstanding work Loco-Sleuth!
How did you make the Japanese connection??? I think you have the same "Trains of the World" book that I have. It has that Chessie Modern Steam pic that you guys were discussing. Was there something in that?
-G.
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Posted - April 30 2007 : 6:08:53 PM
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Well, here in North America we think of Japanese railroads, and picture the typical "bullet train"... but there are some wonderfully odd locomotives from Japan... everything from space-age Winnebagos to Jetsons cabs to um, bullet-pelicans. For lack of a better description.
I'm not sure why I thought "Japan"... but when I looked at the listing and it said Kato, I figured it had to be. Stands to reason that Kato (a japanese company) wouldn't soley build models of US prototypes...
At first it kind of looks like to EMD SW_'s connected cab-to-cab, but when you look closely, there's all kinds of extra stuff going on there, that would have taken some real imagination to merely kitbash.
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Posted - August 17 2011 : 12:53:42 PM
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Darn! I Thought I Would Be Able to Spill The Beans. I Like Japanese and British(some) Prototypes. But ALcos Are The Best of The Best!
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