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Subject: 
Great Northern SD-45 "Hustle Muscle"
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Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:47:33 GMT
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I built this loco right after the BNSF set came out, but never got around to taking pics of it. Better late than never...

It took the equivalent of around 15 sets to get all of the necessary dark green tiles and 1x1 slopes to make this, and BL prices weren’t cheap:-/

But I wanted to model this particular loco, because it is restored and still runs as a part of the Minnesota Transportation Museum’s collection. It was the only loco given the moniker “Hustle Muscle”. I’ve included a pic of it so you can see her IRL. I haven’t decaled mine nicely yet, just some lame printouts on paper, but I’ll eventually change that. I think she looked really good running at the NMRA show (where I finally photographed her)-- almost continuously, while lashed to Ross’ BN GP-50 .

Pics HERE

JOHN



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(...) Now that IS a beast! Tim (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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