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GP38 High Nose Diesel
Burlington Northern
No.
7022 -1975 Release
GP38 High Nose Diesel
Canadian National
No. 7023 -1975 Release
GP38 High Nose Diesel
Norfolk & Western
No. 7024 -1975 Release
GP38 High Nose Diesel
Santa Fe
No. 7021 -1975 Release
GP38 High Nose Diesel
Undecorated
No. 7025 -1975 Release
The November 1975 issue of Railroad Model
Craftsman magazine reviews the Atlas high-nose GP38 beginning on page 80 of that issue. A picture of the Canadian
National example is found with the review. The review points out the incorrect bend in the handrails on the unit's long
hood. This was a repeated problem on certain Atlas-Roco diesels. The casting was simply reversed from the fireman's
side long hood handrailing and that doesn't apply to the opposite engineer's side as there is no step down on that side's
walkway. The RMC review also points out that the model includes a pair of riveted horizontal bands across the roofline
of the unit around the exhaust stacks that are apparently not correct. It is also noted that the model features a rather
oddly shaped fuel tank that would require some work to make more cosmetically pleasing and prototypically accurate.
Con-Cor obtains the tooling for a number of
the Roco HO-scale diesel models and returns them with revisions. A cab improvement was among the changes for Con-Cor's
GP38 release offered in 1991.
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