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Re: [CBQ] CB&Q MP15

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q MP15
From: Michael Matalis <mmatalis@sprynet.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:11:45 -0500
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Manufacturers often times get a little "over creative" with applying  
road scheme.  Athearn was notorious for this in the 60's and 70's, I  
seem to remember them offering a Chinese red DD35A at one time


Thank you kindly,

Michael Matalis
mmatalis@sprynet.com

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On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Russ Strodtz wrote:

> 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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> Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q MP15
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>> 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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