Fictional Models

[eric]

Ages ago, I made a faux-UP heritage unit -- UP 1981, which is when the Milwaukee Road was bought by the Union Pacific....
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I'd forgotten about my fictional FP70ACE.... This was an early Sketchup project from 2011 that wrapped a cowl around the SD70 to make a fictional next generation passenger unit.

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It wrapped a cowl around the back as a freight animation... It'll have to fill in on the Morning Hiawatha until Parker finishes up the FP45's...

[jbtower]

I spent a great deal of time in my youth days at my grandparents home in Elmwood Park were the Milwaukee Road was on the otherside of the alley instead of homes. With all the Union Pacific cities trains passing at track speed 4 times a day, the parade of commuter trains, yard transfers and road freight trains this was one of the major influences on my love of railroading. My parents and grandparents were stunned when I would sit on the porch swing all day even in the winter waiting for trains to pass by. Of course when I got home to Wheaton I had the CNW at the end of the block and the CA&E just a short bike ride away to observe. So the Milwaukee Road was part of my roots and anything flying the Milwaukee Road on it's flanks is awesome and this unit falls in it's category

[SD40-2]

Not a fictional locomotive model, but a fictional, abit realistic configuration of an existing EMD model.

This is a FBL Passenger GP38-2, based on the passenger GP38-2s built for the NdeM. In universe, these were to replace the RDCs to help consolidate trains on the Dunktown Branch after FBL declined to join Amtrak. This is the as-built version, with the Steam Generator. I plan on making a later phase of this unit where they got ditch lights and exchanged their Steam Gen for a HEP Setup.

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[eric]

Apparently the UP liked the FP70's so much they sued to quit Amtrak.

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[Whatever2006]

I would think that the FP70 is what later fourth generation of diesel cowl body locomotives would looked like outside of the existing diesel cowl body locomotives with the likes of EMD SD50F, EMD SD60F, GE C40-8M and some MLW cowl body locomotives which model names I can't really think of.