AZL December New Items Part 2 - Surprise!

Uncle Pete is in Town!   Those are beauties.  
   
Details and paint look spot on.  

Thank You Hans, Rob and Rob for these to enjoy. 


I'm sure someone will complain though: where's the ditch lights?   

Extremely tempting, but my UP freight train already has 4 locos! Trying to hold out for the "weird" Southern ones. And some CP/Soo.

This particular UP paint scheme predates ditch lights.  Thus it would not be correct for this locomotive model to have ditch lights.

Without a lengthy research project/thesis defense, I would peg this scheme as "Mid-70s to Mid-80s" and perhaps some creeping up to 1990 or so.

But, assuming the lettering removal is similar to other AZL stuff, (and assuming you can find decals) you could slide the era forward or backward on these fairly easily. (again, the difficulty is really finding the decals)    As the 80s pass by, you would have to change some details....like the color of the trucks, remove the beacon, etc. (and add the beacon back if you really push forward to the age of RCL beyond the mid-2000s)   Here's some really interesting reading on the subject:  utahrails.net/up/up-diesel-paint-index.php .

I expect AZL will do a more modern UP run at some point either next go-round or later in this one.  So I wouldn't get too crazy with attempting to alter these.

They do look great though!  I can't wait to get a BN or ATSF.

Hope you mean SP SD40T-2, not SP SD40-2

And we will make a 1990 - 2000 version of the UP SD40-2 at a later date

(fun to work with UP and BN SD40-2s which I saw many times in action when I lived in the US in the 1980s)

I will buy all road numbers of Milwaukee Road that comes out!!

Wowsers, these are beautiful!!

And did you also notice the Susquehanna Tunnel motor on the left ?