ET44 is supposed to be 75’ long, a foot longer than the current GE Evolution. I am not sure if the extra-length requires a longer fuel tank. I am not sure if Lionel would care to capture the extra ¼” on their expensive O-Scale models.
For some positive news, so far, images I had seen for the pre-production & production ET44 do not have the radial trucks only the Hi-Ad trucks. So that should reduce the number of variations for Lionel to make / manage.
These are just my opinion,
Thanks,
Naveen Rajan
How hard would it be for MTH or Lionel to modify their GE ES44 tooling to make a ET44AC? Seems like it would sell decently but it all depends how expensive it would be to modify or create new tooling.