@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:...and even though it may ride on 6 wheel trucks it still remains a GP7, not an SD9.
Gads Lionel, do it right from the Get Go, or don't do it at all!
Even as a scale oriented S modeler, I have no issues with Lionel's pseudo-SD9 as it was destined to be a model in the traditional American Flyer vein. Lionel did the same thing to the venerable postwar GP9 in the 1980's to help grow the 3-rail O market to what it's become today.
Now, had they marketed it as a Scale model, that would be a different kettle of fish.
While all Lionel did was to make new sideframes for the GP7 to fit the Flyer PA truck used, the new "SD" sideframes made for a better looking loco than the old Gilbert designed "stretched" Blombergs ever did.
Rusty