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Southern Pacific SD50

Rail Power Products SD60 shell and chassis backdated to an SD50 by Tom Fassett

Modeling choices at the moment are:

• For Z Scale:
  • ?

• For N Scale:
  • ConCor
  • Atlas

• For HO Scale:
  • Rail Power Products SD60 shell and chassis backdated
  • Lifelike SD5
  • Athearn RTR line

• For S Scale:
  • ?

• For O Scale:
  • Mike's Train House

Andrew Hauser, has kindly sent me a Construction article , and a Parts List he used to build his two SD50's, one of which won Second Place in a NMRA Midwest Regional Convention in Oct of 1995.

The best place to start would be with the, Model Railroader Jan. 1992, page 88 - Detailing a RPP SD60 as D&RGW SD50. Then, have a look at this HO Scale SD50 detail update

Athearn has released a RTR SD50 in their Genesis line, so all this might just be redundant...

Modeling References:

• Model Railroader Jan. 1992, page 88 - Detailing a RPP SD60 as D&RGW SD50.
• Mainline Modeler Sep. 1985, page 1 - content unknown.
• Model Railroader Jan. 1984, page 132 - Seaboard plans.
• Model Railroader Sep. 1986, page 32 - Product Review of the ConCor N Scale model.
• Railmodel Journal Nov. 1991 page 33 - Diesel by Detail for a D&RGW SD50.
• Railroad Model Craftsman Apr. 1991 page 60 - KCS plans - some general history.