brickbuilder711 Posted December 29, 2015 Posted December 29, 2015 (edited) Hey guys, here is my latest MOC. These engines have a fascinating story. EMD SD70M-2s. They were originally the demonstrators for this model and even roamed the Florida East Coast railway for some time, before they made their first new acquisitions in decades, which we FEC fans later found out was actually a lease. CITX, one of the many leasing trades in the US got the motors sometime in 2006 after FEC returned them to EMD. They ended up coming back to Florida in 2009 and put into revenue service on the EMD bastion. Now, FEC purchased 24 GE locomotives so they decided to get rid of the M-2s and sent these to their next lessee, which would be CSX. Funny enough, the engines would reappear again in Florida. The following picture is the CITX motor paired up with an FEC engine..... on a CSX local in Miami, FL in 2015. Because of their versatility, rather the fact that I could pair these engines with either FEC OR CSX power , I couldn't help but build one in L-gauge. The engine is a big improvement on the FEC kin that dominated my layout in 2008 as those were built way too tall. Now it has the look and feel of a long behemoth SD70M-2. The comparison image is visible in this link: http://www.instagram...brickbuilder711 Edited December 29, 2015 by brickbuilder711 Quote
THERIZE Posted December 29, 2015 Posted December 29, 2015 Nice! Could you show a picture of the front? Quote
brickbuilder711 Posted February 1, 2016 Author Posted February 1, 2016 Sorry to revive a kind of dead thread, but finally did the video of this engine. Allows closeup views including the nose. Enjoy!! Quote
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