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Post by dazed on Aug 10, 2021 18:17:59 GMT -5
I am impressed by all the love for the Alaska Railroad from Z-scalers. Makes me think there might be a strong market in Z for SD70MAC's. Between Alaska and BNSF, et al, that could be a strong seller. I think Kato did pretty well with them in N and HO. (I believe Athearn did them in HO as well) Conrail, CSX, TFM, and KCS are other roads that owned significant numbers.
I would easily buy as many road numbers of 70MACs as AZL would likely release in the various BNSF schemes (pre-swoosh anyway) and likely would buy dupes too to renumber.
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Post by Hans Riddervold (AZL) on Aug 11, 2021 2:57:45 GMT -5
A locomotive we have looked closely at many times. Unfortunately we cannot piggyback on older products. It would have to be completely new tooling. And it is not on our short or medium term horizon.
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Post by cwrr on Aug 11, 2021 9:21:13 GMT -5
ARR SD70MAC's would be awesome to have, they run them on freight and passenger up there. I find myself watching a lot of ARR vid's on Youtube!
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Post by dazed on Aug 11, 2021 10:51:39 GMT -5
A locomotive we have looked closely at many times. Unfortunately we cannot piggyback on older products. It would have to be completely new tooling. And it is not on our short or medium term horizon. Probably wouldn't be on my list either if I were in your shoes. But, it seems that--more and more--"iconic" seems to be very popular these days and that includes obviously the "name trains" that you are doing, certain popular railroads that have a cult following like ATSF, Pennsy, et al. (and I would place Alaska RR in that category) The Alaska SD70MAC might be among the most public modern locos ever given their frequent appearances on TV. To have a loco that has one of the big icons, PLUS a few major Class I's, (with BN/BNSF having close to 800 of them) is something I think is worth considering someday. And yes, I definitely am biased.  |
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Post by neverland on Aug 15, 2021 15:20:15 GMT -5
There are several AlaskaRR YouTube videos that have attracted quite a following. Only natural it has caught the eye of Z scalers.
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Post by Edward on Sept 7, 2021 23:14:19 GMT -5
I would definitely be interested in BNSF and Alaska SD70MAC!!
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Post by domi on Sept 11, 2021 10:14:49 GMT -5
For those who are not rivet counters, an Alaska custom painted SD70M could represent a decent SD70MAC..  Dom |
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Post by dazed on Sept 11, 2021 22:03:45 GMT -5
For those who are not rivet counters, an Alaska custom painted SD70M could represent a decent SD70MAC.. Dom That's exactly what I'm doing with the AZL BNSF H-II SD75I's. They'll represent the BNSF MAC's, and maybe I'll even get energetic enough to renumber them. I also have another SD75I that I stripped to eventually repaint into the BN "Grinstein Green"/Eddie Bauer scheme, too. And I consider myself a rivet counter....just not a very good one. Someday--who knows--I might try my hand at scratchbuilding some. But that's part of the reason I went to Z so that I could sort of ease off on such things a bit. If I get to the point where I have a nice Z layout and my biggest problem is faux-70MAC's then I figure I'd be pretty happy with that. |
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Post by shamoo737 on Sept 12, 2021 22:41:20 GMT -5
Doug, the first release of the BNSF SD70M’s are actually label SD70Mac, if you don’t mind not having the laundry Shute. It looks pretty good from 10 feet  |
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Post by Commodore on Oct 4, 2021 19:25:09 GMT -5
A locomotive we have looked closely at many times. Unfortunately we cannot piggyback on older products. It would have to be completely new tooling. And it is not on our short or medium term horizon. . How about long term? |
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Post by Commodore on Oct 4, 2021 19:26:17 GMT -5
Doug, the first release of the BNSF SD70M’s are actually label SD70Mac, if you don’t mind not having the laundry Shute. It looks pretty good from 10 feet I don’t mind that detail… |
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