@kanawha posted:The C&O Historical Society published the book Chesapeake and Ohio Diesel Locomotives some decades ago. This is the best source for C&O diesel numbering, paint schemes, details, etc. All the GP-7's the C&O ordered in the paint scheme that's on your GP-7 were numbered between 5700 and 5797. Also none had dynamic brakes. The number appears to be an error. The presence of dynamic brakes appear to be a problem with too many variations amongst too many road names for the builder to agree to.
I can comment in more detail about what I see is right and wrong about your models but I didn't order any of these or get involved in the design process so I really don't have any skin in this. I already had four Atlas GP-9's and didn't need any more.
If you want, you can drop me an email and I can go into how the models compare with what's in the C&O diesel book.
Ken
Thank you for your reply, I just wanted to make sure i was not missing some obscure prototype or something, I must say no sunset bashing here as scott has stated happy to take back but I needed some c&o advice which I got. Discouraging how some always jump into these threads and say "your problem could be worse" or "if you dont like it paint it yourself". A premium product is not supposed to be inaccurate or need painting but maybe i am insane for thinking that.
