SERIOUSLY! How many of you ARE interested in an O Scale/O Gauge ACE 3000!

Make it and I will be a buyer!!!

Alan

Nay! 

It was never a real locomotive. Pure fantasy. 

Looks like a nice door stop to me. No way would I waste money on one of those.

It's purely an engineering concept at this point. I like to think of it as a PRR T1 Duplex with modern tech. I'm intrigued, but I don't think I'd want to drop over 2K on a model without a working prototype.

Entirely too silly.......but if you're going to do this you might as well also cut down the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring.......

I would be in for one!

Greg

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I'd love one, but I'm sure it would be far out of my price range.

As big fan of Chapelon, Porta and all his disciples, Wardale in particular, i would love to have this locomotive.  Alas I would never be able to afford one new.  Lately I have been concentrating on updating some of my older equipment and scooping up some good looking ps1 engines o be updated later.  

As to paint scheme I think it would be wide open.  Given the timeframe the C&O 614 trials were done in, I am thinking of the current class ones along with Conrail, (maybe bnsf if you could make it run on powder river basin coal).  If you just want to go with whatever strikes you than I would say Erie, P&WV, or Milwaukee would all look good.  I could also see a WM fireball scheme on the flanks.  

This locomotive would have stood a half decent chance at production if oil prices had remained sky-high.  In the current market it would be doubtful at best.  When you factor in the stress load on the track from big drivers its almost a guaranteed no-go for the real thing, but as for a model I still think it would be pretty cool. Interestingly enough it would be a loco that you could easily change to run off liquefied natural gas by hooking up a tank car for a tender, or switch back to coal, simply based on lowest dollar fuel availability.

No

Too big.  Too much money.  Not an interesting locomotive.

It looks like there are at least 2 people who would buy it.  If you add yourself and the other anonymous, influential person, you got 4.   I would say start production.

Yes - the final decision would be based on the price. I don't expect it to be cheap, but.

Now, if I may comment upon the above statement, and others like it:

"Nay! 

It was never a real locomotive. Pure fantasy." 

That is factually incorrect - it was never built, but it was designed by people who were qualified to do so and was in no way "fantasy". But, as it never had a Warbonnet paint scheme or some such thing, I guess there's no reason to build it, huh?

My photo says it all

D500 posted:

Yes - the final decision would be based on the price. I don't expect it to be cheap, but.

Now, if I may comment upon the above statement, and others like it:

"Nay! 

It was never a real locomotive. Pure fantasy." 

That is factually incorrect - it was never built, but it was designed by people who were qualified to do so and was in no way "fantasy". But, as it never had a Warbonnet paint scheme or some such thing, I guess there's no reason to build it, huh?

Add in it is also a 34+ year old concept.

Rusty

I got to look over  an Audi concept piloted car last week, it was truly the future now.

I like this engine for the same reasons, I would buy it.

Fred

Nyet

Want a Steam Turbine Electric that hasn't been done in O Scale???

As a Sunset brass thing it would require about 120 reservations and the price would be about $1800.  Painted in the Demo paint, yeah, I'm interested.  When I was an undergraduate in mech engineering in the '70s my senior project was to study the possibilities of a nuclear powered version of this type of proposal.

Yea, but probably out of range of my wallet and too big for any layout I could build. 

Maybe, depending on price.  Especially, in brass, I know it will be a lot of bucks but depends on how much.  And, for me, 2 rail and in CSX paint.

Rick