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BLI Rolling Thunder concept: compatiblity with RailPro?

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G8B4Life:
Alan,

No, they were orientated the correct way for the north so they could test them, we would have flipped them over when they got here.  ;)  The test train would be great modelling for anyone modelling the Chicago area circa 1949. Imagine if you will, in order, a flat car fitted with railings and a hut sporting the new bogies, an F3 (traction motors disconnected and power fed to the bogies under the flat car) and a caboose barrelling down the tracks at high speed. Must have been a strange sight.

Jim,

It's not common knowledge, at least to those in the US as no one's published a comprehensive history of the SD7 or the SD line as a whole. This could be because the same level of history is not there for the SD7 (and in general a large number of US diesels) as there is for loco's here simply because of the sales method employed; By and large by that time US builders developed the locomotives by themselves and then offered them in a catalogue for all and sundry to purchase where as railways here, being government owned until recently (1990's) had to put out tenders and builders designed something to fulfill that tender.

- Tim

jimw:
Tim

Your history of the SD7 verifies the adage "truth is stranger than fiction."  That would be a really nifty scene to model the C-C powered flatcar/F3-unit/caboose test scene.  Are you aware of any photographs or movies of the test units?

Jim W

G8B4Life:
Jim,

I know of exactly one photo that shows the whole train; from a distance so it's not that good for studying detail. I can't rightly remember where I saw it but I think it's in a book I have. I know of three other photos that show partial views of the train. These are in another book I have which I do know where it is.

- Tim

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