176-7616 EMD SD70M CSX 4697 Bachmann_Winter_21 with 'Mallard' maintaining its celebrity

with 'Mallard' maintaining its celebrity status among the trainspotters of the day while continuing to haul express passenger trains along the East Coast Mainline

Answer the call of duty with the Dodge Monaco from the Chicago Fire Department

We used a Plastikote Stone colour for our test build which we then dry-brushed with burnt umber

it was named ‘The Olympian’ and painted in a version of Network SouthEast livery

176-7616 EMD SD70M CSX 4697 Bachmann_Winter_21 with 'Mallard' maintaining its celebrityIntroduced in 1992, EMD SD70M was a 4000 horsepower locomotive that ran on EMDs new steerable truck design, known as the HTCR II radial truck. This new truck allowed the locomotive to transfer its power to the rails more efficiently, which in turn enabled two SD70M locomotives to pull a train that would have taken 3 SD40 2s to pull. The DC brother of the SD70MAC, the SD70M was primarily put to work hauling coal trains due to its high pulling capacity.