Kato NYC 20th Centurty Limited - PWRS, official announcement soonish?

[thomasjmdavis]

[GhengisKong]

So glad you choose to take what I said out of context, I was referring to the FP7 which the WP did have. As I said, if they treat the E7A like they did the FP7A, then we will not see any other roads possibly other than NYC. Only other road that I know off the top of my head that single headlight E7As was PRR, though I'm sure there were others.

I was told by a Kato rep at the OKC train show that they were planning on doing other roads in the FP7 eventually.

[nickelplate759]

Here are a couple more single-headlight examples, from american-rails.com

First a B&O sunburst.
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Second - GN as delivered in 1945!  Western enough?
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To be fair, the GN units were soon modified with a second headlight (and goat moved to the nose).

[Mark5]

I was told by a Kato rep at the OKC train show that they were planning on doing other roads in the FP7 eventually.

Awesome! I am hoping first for a WP FP7 to go with the Cal Zeph.

Mark

[altohorn25]

Gotta pic?

Jason

Found my photos - I was wrong - 2 headlights.....sorry.

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[delamaize]

Second - GN as delivered in 1945!  Western enough?
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Man, I really like the as delivered scheme. Never seen that before....

[CBQ Fan]

Man, I really like the as delivered scheme. Never seen that before....

Those with an accurate Empire Builder would be a hot seller!

[Point353]

Those with an accurate Empire Builder would be a hot seller!

However, the E7s were no longer in that delivery paint scheme by the time the streamlined EB cars arrived.
http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=235

[CBQ Fan]

However, the E7s were no longer in that delivery paint scheme by the time the streamlined EB cars arrived.
http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=235

They could do the modified scheme with the goat emblem on the nose and the lower green stripe cat tied forward to the nose.  I am looking at a photo dated 1961 with this scheme. F units were prominent power on the EB that shouldn’t stop Kato, CB&Q F3’s didn’t last long at all on the CZ.

[wcfn100]

I would be all over a pre-full dome Builder with E7s!

Jason

[Nato]

                    E-7's were never used on the Empire Builder during the "Great Dome " era. They had been transferred  first to run on the "Pacific International" to Vancouver BC, didn't last long there , then to the Midwest, where they finished out their service lives later in the simplified EB paint scheme. Dome equipped Builders used F-3's and F-7"s later SDP 45 and 40's into the Sky Blue Era.                        Nate Goodman (Nato).   

[CBQ Fan]

                    E-7's were never used on the Empire Builder during the "Great Dome " era. They had been transferred  first to run on the "Pacific International" to Vancouver BC, didn't last long there , then to the Midwest, where they finished out their service lives later in the simplified EB paint scheme. Dome equipped Builders used F-3's and F-7"s later SDP 45 and 40's into the Sky Blue Era.                        Nate Goodman (Nato).   

So I guess it is settled then. KATO will have to do pre dome and dome era EB’s with E, F & SDP power!

[Leggy]

[u18b]

So I guess it is settled then. KATO will have to do pre dome and dome era EB’s with E, F & SDP power!

Hahaha...... Unless Hiroshi Kato just really wants a dome car in there!

What he wants happens.

[CBQ Fan]

Hahaha...... Unless Hiroshi Kato just really wants a dome car in there!

What he wants happens.

I would just have to find a way to live with that I guess. 😂