Re: [CBQ] CB&Q MP15

["Russ Strodtz" <normansen@groundcontrol.us>]

MP15's ??  I think the BN got four units that had been built by
the SLSF. Other than that, no. Models are models, locomotives are
locomotives, often are not the same.

Russ
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Sent: Wednesday, 29 April, 2009 17:52
Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q MP15


>I often check Caboose Hobbies' website for CB&Q/D&RGW models which are 
>available or coming up and noted something quite irregular today.   They 
>listed a Con-Cor CB&Q MP15,  numbered 576 or 580, painted in the pre-1958 
>blackbird scheme.   I questioned this because I thought MP15s were built in 
>the 1960s and would be painted Chinese red on the CB&Q.   I checked the 
>BRHS roster and found no MP15s listed there.   I also checked the EMD MP15 
>on Wikipedia and found that it was built from 1974 to 1980, which would 
>have been the BN era.   What is the story on this model, especially painted 
>in first-generation colors?
> - John Manion
>  Denver, CO
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