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 Posted - June 23 2019 : 07:34:57 AM
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Here's my LOTW offering:
Won this Tyco VIA - CN locomotive & caboose pair for a little over $20 on Ebay, a steal. However, the F9 will remain a project for an available day, as there are some disconnected wires....
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Posted - June 24 2019 : 8:46:21 PM
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An interesting and colorful road. I’d put it together just so you could put it on the shelf until maintenances.
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Posted - June 24 2019 : 8:47:34 PM
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[quote]An interesting and colorful road. I’d put it together just so you could put it on the shelf until maintenanced.
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Posted - June 25 2019 : 10:03:52 AM
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Ditto to that, that is a real prime Tyco piece, yet again, had
no idea it existed.
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Posted - June 25 2019 : 11:28:56 AM
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Yeah, I will re-install the trucks.  Thanks guys - it certainly is an awesome piece!
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Posted - June 25 2019 : 12:44:09 PM
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This is my Athearn DD-40 PRR diesel.
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Posted - June 25 2019 : 4:14:48 PM
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my CP Rail loco is almost like that VIA 
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Posted - June 25 2019 : 8:07:56 PM
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toptrain,
As a former Pennsylvanian and having grown up in the sixties your DD-40 makes me nostalgic for the old PRR. What a beast!
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Posted - June 26 2019 : 07:52:32 AM
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Alco Fan, It was one of the largest diesels ever made. I never seen one in operation. I don't think that the Pennsy ever had one. With the book Pennsy Power 2 by Alvin Staufer being my reference book for Pennsy Diesels it is all I have. This big book is lacking because of no index. The way you find things is to just keep paging through it. So I only use it when sitting on my front porch with nothing to do but relax. I do not recommend this book to anyone who is in need of finding something out, but to one who wishes to casually glance through a book awaiting to be entertained by finding some bit of information of value within it.
This book is chuck-full of information and detail and lots of good black and white photos, but no way of quickly accessing it. I did try to find a photo of a DD-40 in this book but all references are to Pennsy's way of naming loco types. No D-D truck type diesel is found in this book.
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Posted - June 26 2019 : 9:51:44 PM
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Toptrain I have that book, you’re right the Pennsy didn’t have a DD- 40 but I have a model like yours and at least one in another road that I can’t remember right now. I kept mine in the box cause it took the space of two Alcos almost on the shelf. All good fun!
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Posted - June 26 2019 : 10:12:07 PM
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| Nobody had a DD40. They were marketed by EMD, they never got any orders. Union Pacific bought the DD35, DD35A, and DD40AX. Southern Pacific had some DD35's.
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Posted - June 27 2019 : 10:22:05 AM
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A DD40X in PRR. 
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Posted - June 27 2019 : 9:43:22 PM
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quote:
now lets imagine it in PC
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Posted - June 28 2019 : 09:54:00 AM
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| Oh, my, I seriously hadn't thought of it...way cool idea...
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Posted - June 29 2019 : 7:06:13 PM
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Posted - June 30 2019 : 01:01:06 AM
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Nice rig, Mike!! Love that back drop. Reminds me of downtown
Hamilton, from back in the day.
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