After looking at my 2 Kato N scale GE ES44AC “GEVO” CP #8705 & 8718 and pictures of the real thing I was pleasantly surprised at how (out of the box) accurate these models are! The Kato model is based on the 2005 CP version (road numbers 8705 & 8718 also match this date). The only thing I’m not sure about is the horn. I decided to compile info about the GE ES44AC Canadian Pacific version. All info/pictures was/were found at (what a great site!) -> http://www.cprdieselroster.com/
Paint Schemes: 2005 -> 8700 to 8759 -> Canadian Pacific with Solid White Safety Stripes 2006(1) -> 8760 to 8799 -> Canadian Pacific with Solid White Safety Stripes 2006(2) -> 8800 to 8824 -> Canadian Pacific with Solid White Safety Stripes 2006(3) -> 8825 to 8839 -> Canadian Pacific with Solid White Safety Stripes 2007 -> 8840 to 8859 -> Canadian Pacific with Solid White Safety Stripes 2008 -> 8860 to 8899 -> Canadian Pacific with Solid White Safety Stripes 2011(1) -> 8900 to 8907 -> Canadian Pacific with Solid White Safety Stripes 2011(2) -> 8908 to 8960 -> Canadian Pacific with Dashed White Safety Stripes Notes: 8860 to 8877 were painted in the CPR Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010 paint scheme with “Canadien Pacifique” on left hood and “Canadian Pacific” on right hood.
It would seem that way. Kato did such a great job that I ordered 2 more of them. There are of course a few discrepancies but this I think has to do more with the small scale of things:
* The size of the front and rear lights seem to large (sorry Sandro but FVM seems to have gotten this better). * The position of the locomotive lifting hooks?/ positions are off a bit and thus some of the stanchions and thus also the position / middle of the trucks, without this the model would probably not work on many N-scale layouts because of the radius of some N-Scale curves (the trucks would hit the steps). * And I'm not sure about the horn,I need to find better pictures.
i have to admit that fvm has more details on their shells.
but still : - shells are glued together - drives are junk
i run a coal train with the following setup : 1 kato es44ac in front, 50 heavy lbf coal hoppers, another es44ac, followed by another 30 heavy coal hoppers.
i can't even run this train with 3 fvm es44ac.
if i say heavy coal hoppers i'm talking about 44gramms each.
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Posted - 12/30/2011 : 13:10:56
