@Dave Olson posted:We have our catalog show at 3pm today. We'll talk in-depth on the 90. Hopefully most of your questions will be answered there, and if not let me know.
@Conrail6358 posted:Not sure we covered all the questions on the FB post today so let me jump in on a few while I have a chance:
1. Metal side rods of course. Most will be "polished" but some will feature blackened rods for other roads to represent a more in-service appearance. (In service on a railroad that doesn't keep them as prim and proper as the SRC anyway!)
2. All of the catalog art is based off of our initial drawings which Dave helped render into an image format. There will be some detail differences between some of the Strasburg units and especially the Strasburg and other railroads. We will post updated images as we can. The art is correct for the current Strasburg scheme.
3. 1967/2020 - 90 was repainted in this 1967 paint scheme last year for a photo charter. It didn't last long (less than a week I think.) But we wanted to offer it anyway because it is such a striking paint scheme. A future run of these locomotives will include the extended smokebox. When we have that, we'll re-run this paint scheme with the appropriate details. (And of course the later GW paint as well.) So if you're looking for an accurate 1967-1980s #90, its in the works. Didn't want to drop another 27 loco run on all of you at once like we did with the GS locos! There are lots more Decapods in the future. (Hang in there KO&G fans!!!)
4. Likewise the details on the Great Western 90s shown here will both be different. One will be the loco as delivered on the GW. The other is the original paint with modern SRC details.
5. All will have builders plates.
6. We're working with the SRC every step of the way on these and we'll match graphite colors as closely as possible to the different eras as shown in the catalog.
7. Not asked here but bears repeating. This locomotive is all new tooling. Unlike past hybrids where we started with an existing drive/frame, this one required new tooling for all of those parts. Most of you already know because I've certainly dropped enough hints that this project has been in development for quite a few years. It is not an MTH Russian Decapod with Strasburg paint.
8. We are working with the SRC on sounds - including loco and dialog recordings.
9. Don't think it was mentioned in the catalog but like other brass hybrids, these will be individually numbered.
10. Swinging bell - we tried. Won't fit! Really, we tried! I still owe Dave a dinner for that...
I'll be on a live Facebook and YouTube broadcast with the Strasburg on August 2. So hopefully I'll be able to catch any questions I've missed or any new ones which come up then! Please join us. And we hope to have a first sample on hand by October - I want the photo op of our 90 with 90!
Dave and Ryan, thank you guys for finally getting this locomotive from floating idea bubbles, blueprints, to being a production model. I know the you Ryan have talked quite a bit about getting this one done, and a few times that we had talked about it. I remember myself saying I had no idea how many other Decapods existed out in the world other than those that had been used in Russia from some historical footage from the History Channel I saw. I still have to review the cars to see what I am ordering on those, but I am going with the 2000's version since that was what it was wearing when I saw the Great Train Robbery in 2016.
I'll have to catch the FB live show tomorrow as I don't have time to watch it tonight.
Hey, there's Dave and Ryan from October 2017 York. Who is having more fun? This was that Saturday well after too much smoke fluid was in the VL Niagara sample, and it threw it's traction tires, but still ran on. I would have popped #90 pictures I took at Strasburg in 2016, but I think that is on the flash drive I loaned to my sister who has had it since early 2017. I will have to get that back from her.
