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I picked 6775 because there was a lot of on line photos including
the first below on rrpicturees.net taken by a friend in Deepwater NJ 15
minutes from me. It was a very well traveled loco.
These
are photos I bought from eBay.
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This is an American Models SD60 released in 2001. I have other
American Models SD60 but none are the Wide Cab SD60M. They run really well and
can pull a lot of cars. This came up for sale on eBay in March 2025 for a good
price because of the awful paint. That is fine with me. I don’t model Frisco.
It will get stripped. I have been told Frisco did not even have SD60.
Unfortunately the SD60 has been out of stock at American Models
for a while. It is the most readily available “modern” loco in S Scale besides
the American Flyer SD70ace and ES44. They are both permanently out of
production since Lionel ended all American Flyer sales.
These photos were taken on 3-13-25 as received still with the Hi Rail wheels and couplers. I bought new scale wheels from American Models and installed my SD60 draft gear. That is a first for this SD60. I 3D printed the draft gear myself.
On 5-12-25 I finally dunked this to strip the paint. Scalecoat is back in business selling the plastic paint stripper and paint thinner – only. This loco was painted silver, then white and red. Stripping a plastic loco is an all day project of soaking and scrubbing until clean.
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