North Coast Limited

[Chet]

Having grown up in Montana, we took the North Coast Limited to the twin cities in order to transfer to another railroad to Chicago and then the South Shore to visit relatives in Indiana. Walthers has offered numerous passenger trains but not an entire North Coast Limited. I had picked up an Athearn Genisis F-7 years ago painted in the Lowey paint scheme that I grew up with. Walthers had come out with some generic passenger cars in the NP colors. After getting a number of them, the little F-7 couldn't pull what I had up the two and a half percent grade on my layout. I managed to fin a Stewart F-3A and and F-7B, but they were un numbered and lacked the proper details. The Stewart units were custom painted because the color ws way off with the proper details added.



Here's a video of it dropping down grade on my layout.

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