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You did a great job covering the shape of the loco and I really like the leaf springs on the trucks. The level of detail you did in 10 wide is great. I do note that the engine is closer to a turbocharged EMD engine with roots blower exhaust manifolds. The equipment rack and engine end details are nice. The upper grilles both front and rear on a GP7/9 were for the radiators which were located behind them. Each radiator bank had either 2 - 36" fans or 1 - 48" fan, the 48" inch fans introduced later in the GP9 production. Engine intake air was thru the louvers on the carbody doors, inertial filters weren't introduced until the GP30.

Dave

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10 hours ago, zephyr1934 said:

Now you are just showing off with all that detail under the hood (grin) That's a fantastic MOC

 

Isn't that the point ... I also have a SD40-2 and a SW1500 with full interior and motorized that I haven't got around to posting here yet.

BTW: I sent a few people your way for rods. How that went, I have no clue.

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On 11/10/2020 at 8:47 PM, Terry Akuna said:

Isn't that the point ... I also have a SD40-2 and a SW1500 with full interior and motorized that I haven't got around to posting here yet.

BTW: I sent a few people your way for rods. How that went, I have no clue. 

Getting the exterior to look good is hard enough, complete interiors like that is simply over the top. My interiors always seem to fill up with snot to get just the right offset on the outside and reinforcing structure, but excluding my steam I build 6 wide.

Meanwhile, things are still chugging along with the rods, thank you for the references!

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