Id like to see this in Z

Kelley do you mean like the 2nd one from the back?



Rob

Im a Midwest railroad fan. Both railroads (and the IC) went to the mine my father and brother worked at. The cars were pushed by either the CB&Q or the Mopac, on a contract basis that switched every few years. I have told my dealer to snag up all 3 Q engines when they come out, and eventually I would get a Mopac engine (or two) to boot.

That is a nice.engine!! I am aiming for a very specific time-place-era-railroad. Mopac had a very nice and very complicated paint scheme, before Mr Jenks painted everything blue. And the Jenk´s blue faded fast into every kind of shade. All I need are the proper decals and I think even I could paint one up. Now if I could only get the proper cabeese. One could almost just pop a decal on a Märklin one, if you can find the right shade of Red.

Dom,
Glad you liked it. It's an obscure N. Colorado short line. They never wasted money on paint unless they really needed to. So you'll find BN, WP, UP and DRGW on the Great Western, mostly in their sellers paint. They were so cheap, they'd buy DRGW gondolas because all they had to do is paint out the "DR" to get their road number!
I'd lover to model it's steam operations, but I need a USRA 2-10-0, a couple of 2-8-0s and 0-4-0 saddle tanks. My interest comes from family connections to railroad, but in reality there are probably less than 10 modelers of the GW in all scales.

Mark

Dom,
Most definitely. The original railroad was built by the Great Western Sugar Company about 1905. When the sugar company was liquidated in the 1980s the road was sold to 3 local railroad men and a dog. That was the era of the jack rabbit logo and the sense of humor. The railroad was sold to Omnitrax, a U.S. owner of short line:
www.omnitrax.com/railroads/great-western-railway-of-colorado-llc.aspx
The main function of the railroad these days is serving industries such as DuPont and Coors transferring product between the UP and BNSF north of Denver.

One of the interesting facts about this road is that it was one of the last common carriers in the U.S. to run steam locomotives. The 2-10-0 and one of the 2-8-0 locos are still running on tourist railroads.

There are more images at:

www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoList.aspx?id=GWR

But be careful, there are also images of the British Great Western there.

Mark