Yup...It would take a major splice of the hood to stretch it. I only
mentioned the SC model in case you want one. If an NW-1 was made in the
60's, I think I would forget it. It would be so crude. As for EMC
changing prime movers...It was decided to start cutting out the outside
venders and make everything in house. This also cut out G E and
Westinghouse electrical equiptment. The SW-1 came out in 1/39 with newly
designed a V-6 567A engine. The 1000 hp NW-2 came out a month later with
a V-12 567A. Don't forget now, this was the begining of deiselization,
and the builders were shooting at different services, RR's, industrials,
very light rail areas where weight was a major consideration etc. I
think this is evident because EMD resumed post war production of the
SW-1. I remember sidings here where we could not take an SW-8 into
because they were too heavy! We had to use reachers.
rgortowski@a... wrote:
>
> Hi Gordon!
>
> Thanks for the info. Sounds like an Alco Models SC would not be that good of
> a starting point to get those NW1's. Dennis Blunt thought he remembered a
> Trains model or Alco model of a NW1 from the '60's. Can anyone confirm this?
>
> A side note - it's kind of interesting that after using the higher horsepower
> V12 Winton 201 for the NW1, that EMD would settle on 600 hp as it's standard
> for the SW1. Why not 900 hp or 1000 hp? Couldn't they stretch the 567 to
> the higher horsepower right off the bat?
>
> Rich
>
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