Fwd: FW: Walthers February 2021 New Product announcements, order by 2/26

[NW Modeling List]

Thank you, Nigel.  I guess that means they were delivered in the black 
livery?

On 1/21/2021 2:41 PM, NW Modeling List wrote:
> Hi Walter;
>
> None of N&W GP9 locomotives were delivered in blue, which came after 
> the merger in 1964.  The last GP9 locomotives built new were made in 1959.
>
> Nigel Misso
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:11 AM NW Modeling List 
> <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
>
>     Were all of them delivered in blue?  What year?  No black ones?
>
>     On 1/21/2021 9:35 AM, NW Modeling List wrote:
>>     Good news from Walthers Proto.  They will be offering 4 different
>>     numbers of of N&W freight GP9's in Pevler Blue.  766 and 767 will
>>     be offered with Sound-DCC (ESU Loksound 5 Decoders) and 769 and
>>     809 in DC only, DCC ready. The picture with the passenger scheme
>>     frame stripe is incorrect.  I've verified with Walthers that the
>>     units will not have the passenger scheme yellow stripe and will
>>     adhere to N&W's Pevler Blue freight scheme.  The absolute
>>     prototype accuracy of the units is still to be determined but
>>     they without doubt will be the best plastic N&W freight GP9's
>>     offered to date.  You can see the various N&W specific features
>>     they have incorporated on the models.  I recently purchased an
>>     Erie Lackawanna GP7 from this same series of models and found it
>>     to be very accurate prototypically and operationally excellent
>>     too.Pre-orders must be submitted by 2/28/21 with delivery
>>     scheduled for 6/21.  There are numerous credible and reliable
>>     dealers you can pre-order these locomotives through.  I
>>     ordered all 4 and will convert the DC-DCC ready models to sound
>>     with ESU Loksound 5 decoders.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     Ed Painter - Member #70, N&WHS Modeing Committee Chairman, from
>>     Narrowes, VA living in Cohutta, GA
>>
>>         **
>>
>>
>>
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