Reply to "MTH SD40-2 (scale wheels)"

catnapOGR Forum Member

@Strummer posted:
Very nice indeed; never realized how similar that paint scheme is to the Rio Grande's...
Question: are those couplers the newer, "scale" type Kadees, as opposed to the #805/6?
Mark in Oregon

Thank you.

When the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway was restarted in the early ‘90s I believe it was by somebody who worked as an executive for the Denver & Rio Grande Western so the colors and herald followed suit. Actually, the W&LE uses a pumpkin orange where the D&RGW was more of an amber hue. There are 4 W&LE locomotives today that still wear the D&RGW heralds, 2 GP40’s and 2 SD40T-2’s. They acquired most of their GP40’s from the D&RGW along with a few GP35’s.

The Kadee 745’s have a medium centerset and a more prototypical knuckle without a spring visible. The couplers are metal and the gearboxes are plastic.

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