scale rail posted:Not sure yet on price, but I will sell the body as a kit. It's easy to put together. I'm going to supply all brass detail parts but not the pantograph as it would be different for scale or non-scale overhead like the older Lionel GG1. I use a type of plastic that can be put together with Acetone and a small brush. Works great and you have a little time to adjust. Any part you mess up I can supply a replacement free. This has much more detail than the first test runs. It just takes lots of time to print everything. I'm having lots of fun with this project as I have tried to get the big three to do this loco for years. Not sure but I wonder if the 44 toner will run on easy streets. That would be great seeing a small freight going down a city street. Don
I hope that I am not getting too far off track here, but SN 654 does have an interesting and unusual history. In about 1928 the Sacramento Northern RAILROAD ordered two new locomotives from GE. They would become SN 652 and SN 653. At the time GE offered the SNRR an option for one more locomotive at a very good price if the ordered was placed by a certein date. The date was about the same time that 652 and 653 would be delivered in 1929. The SNRR exercised this option just a few days before the deadline, and GE proceeded to start building another 65 ton electric locomotive. On December 30, 1929 the Sacramento Northern RAILROAD merged with the San Francisco -Sacramento Shortline to become the Sacramento Northern RAILWAY, making it the longest interurban railroad in the US, running from San Francisco to Chico, CA. Locomotive 654 was delievred to the Sacramento Northern RAILWAY in mid 1930, making it the only new electric locomotive ever purchased by the SNRy. The SNRy continued electric operation, finally just in the Yuba City Marysville area, until 1965. Locomotive 653 was given to the Orange Empire Trolley Museum in Perris, CA and locomotives 652 and 654 went to the Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction, CA.
