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Post by Mopacman on May 27, 2024 22:25:30 GMT
I was watching You Tube videos this weekend of pre Bachmann Williams diesel engines that were produced over the years. By chance, a video on early FP45 diesels included a very quick display of SD45 diesel engines. Included was a picture of a Missouri Pacific SD45 (#2362) in transition Union Pacific merger paint. Admittedly, MoPac is my favorite road name. Over several years I have acquired MoPac engines produced by Lionel, MTH, Williams, and K-Line. When something was unavailable, I have attempted to paint it, with the results not always being as good as I had hoped. The attached picture (excuse a picture of a TV screen) was something that I had not previously seen. This engine caught my attention. I painted a MoPac SD45 in Armour Yellow with MoPac decals, after I came to the realization that the attractive MoPac blue was gone forever! However, I still am interested in acquiring the engine that was in the You Tube video. Has anyone ever seen this engine? Searching on Ebay, and Google hasn't yielded any results. It certainly isn't a "have to have" purchase, just something fun to find after thinking that I have found all available MoPac engines.  |
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Post by mopac on May 28, 2024 13:31:00 GMT
Well Mopacman it appears we both live in Missouri and have a fondness for anything Missouri Pacific.
Back in the early 90s I bought the Williams Missouri Pacific F7 ABA set from Trainland from ads in CTT. The A unit is powered, the B unit has a Williams diesel sound system in it, the other A is a dummy. This was one of their blowout price deals
In this same period I bought a Williams shark-nose set that came with 4 brass cars that were representative of Lionel's prewar scale cars. The set was only $200. I bought it just to get the brass cars that were selling for more than $50 each. I have collected all the brass cars that Williams made.
Why so cheap. It was in this period of time that MTH got involved with Lionel and Samhongsa and dumped a lot of product back on Williams. Williams Sold it all to Trainland to get it out of the warehouse.
Since I didn't really care for the shark-nose engines I removed the motors and put them in the Mopac dummy A engine to run as an individual engine not as an ABA set. These are the only Mopac engines I have. I might still buy the Williams Mopac BL-2 engine. I like it
I have a MTH railking Berkshire Erie engine that I want to re-letter the tender to Mopac. Other than the F7s and the BL-2 I am not fond of diesel engines. I do like the railroads that ran through Missouri or at least came into Kansas City and Saint Louis
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Post by Mopacman on May 30, 2024 3:07:01 GMT
Mopac,
I live in Kansas, growing up in the McPherson area where MoPac ran a freight train between El Dorado and McPherson 6 days a week in the 60's and 70's. Diesel engines used were MP-15's and GP-9's. You would be interested to know, not caring for diesel engines on the MoPac, that my grandmother watched this MoPac run trains on this same route in the 40's and 50's. In those days, the train only ran 2 or 3 days a week. My grandmother was careful not to do laundry on the days the train ran, as her laundry would be dried on a clothes line, and would be covered with coal soot from the train, as she lived only 100 yards away from the tracks.
I too bought a Missouri Pacific F7 ABA in the same time that you did. Still a good runner. I recommend buying BL-2. I own 2 and enjoy running them as an alternative to regular diesels on my freight trains. What makes this hobby so much fun is the opportunity to run diesel or steam, and still accurately portray this history of the MoPac! Have fun.
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Post by mopac on May 30, 2024 14:45:31 GMT
Mopacman...Kansas.
We lived in Kansas for 22 years in the country near a small town of Benton N.E of Wichita. I worked for Boeing for 20 year and retired from then in 2000 at age 55 and we moved to Aurora Mo. We have a Small lakefront place on Tablerock lake. The house in Aurora is 4000 Sq Ft with a walkout basement where I have a train room.
I was born in Kansas City but we moved to So California where I lived for 30 years Left there in 1980 for the Midwest.
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Post by dennym57 on May 30, 2024 15:08:16 GMT
I lived with a woman from Missouri. She turned out to be Satan's daughter.
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Post by mopac on Jun 1, 2024 5:12:55 GMT
I lived with a woman from Missouri. She turned out to be Satan's daughter. You said you lived with but didn't marry her. At least you took it for a test drive before buying the farm. LOL As for me I married one of those California Girls. The West Coast has the sunshine And the girls all get so tanned I dig a French bikini on Hawaii island Dolls
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Post by dennym57 on Jun 1, 2024 13:47:46 GMT
I lived with a woman from Missouri. She turned out to be Satan's daughter. You said you lived with but didn't marry her. At least you took it for a test drive before buying the farm. LOL As for me I married one of those California Girls. The West Coast has the sunshine And the girls all get so tanned I dig a French bikini on Hawaii island Dolls Oh she wanted me to marry her and I wouldn't do it. Of course that made her horns grow and she would get worst.
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