Intermountain C44-9W

[sd75i]

Not sure if i can post the website.  Maybe KATO will do some more in different roads!

[Mark5]

Potentially an accurate NS dash 9 for a change:

https://www.intermountain-railway.com/reservationflyers/RF0518NDash9.htm

Mark

[tehachapifan]

Wow! Didn't see that one coming!

[Nick Lorusso]

It will be nice to see correct CN & BC Rail units

[ryan_wilkerson]

Just noticed this...first I remember hearing about Intermountain doing this loco in N scale.
https://www.intermountain-railway.com/n/nloco/nlocc44-9w.htm

 In 1993, General Electric introduced the C44-9W locomotive, which quickly became known as the "Dash 9". Among the railroads to order them were Santa Fe, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Chicago & North Western and Southern Pacific. These locomotives were produced in large quantities for these and other North American railroads until the end of 2004. The C44-9W continues in service today for their original and subsequent owners with many being given a new lease on life in various rebuild programs.

The InterMountain Railway Dash 9 will include all of the features you have come to expect from our locomotive products. The Dash 9 will be offered in multiple phases representing road specific and order specific details whenever possible. Among the variations that will be offered; Three and Four Window Cabs, Canadian Teardrop Window Cab, High and Low Headlights, and Early and Late Radiator Intake Grilles.

These locos will be available in DC, DCC and DCC with Sound configurations featuring ESU®  decoders.

Locomotives produced under license from the General Electric Company.

[flight2000]

You're a little late to the party...but not by much...   

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=44686.0

Cheers,
Brian

[EspeeGoldenState]

Not sure if i can post the website.  Maybe KATO will do some more in different roads!

Heck, all I wanted was one more SP number from Kato. Debating on a BNSF H1 though.

Now if they started doing SP/UP or CNW/UP patch jobs, I might be a little more tempted.

Chris

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Neat!

I HATE the Dash 9. To me it epitomized the death of Conrail. One day everything was blue. The next? It was an NS Dash 9. On coal trains, on stack trains, on manifest trains, on locals. The damn things were everywhere. And they still are.

But if you're trying to model Norfolk Southern, you need some. No, you need a lot of them. They had something like 1000 of the bastards.

And for my Norfolk Southern loving friends, I am happy.

[ryan_wilkerson]

...and I meant to put it in the proper forum!
Admin you can delete this one

[Rossford Yard]

And MSRP up only $10 from the SD 40-2 offering that is only a year old or so.  Not bad, really.  The really good news is that they must have hit a home run with the SD40-2 sound units and feel that they can compete with Kato.  Really feeling their oats, a kind of Rocky Mountain High that is good for us in N Scale.

[Lenny53]

Will the 4 window cab have Dofasco trucks?

[jpwisc]

It's hard for me to think of BNSF without H2 -9's They are such an iconic engine. I am really looking forward to these arriving in early 2025.

[jagged ben]

Did not see that coming either.  This is what we get, and what Kato gets, for them not utilizing their existing tooling enough.

For me it presents a dilemma.   I can expound on the pros and cons of Intermountain vs. Kato shells, I ultimately don't have a preference, but it comes down to this: they don't look a whole lot like each other.  And while it's all fine to run a Kato Dash-9 with an Intermountain tunnel motor, it's much more jarring to juxtapose two different looking models that are supposed to be the same prototype.  Add to this that I have most of the Dash-9s that I want, all Kato of course, and the thought of grabbing a couple IM to intersperse with the Katos gives me pause.  What I really wanted was for Kato to re-run their correct BNSF H2. 

Also.... why no 5000 series BNSF H2?!?  Frustrating.  We already got the 4900 series from Kato.

[jagged ben]

It's hard for me to think of BNSF without H2 -9's They are such an iconic engine. I am really looking forward to these arriving in early 2025.

Right.   

[daniel_leavitt2000]

A few questions... Would H1 and H2 be appropriate for 1998? I don't have any BNSF units yet.

I'm guessing this will be on a similar chassis as the T4. I wonder if this is another FVM project.