Southern Pacific SW900E build

[torikoos]

Indeed, it was a small fleet and they were found mostly in Northern California,but served a variety of customers. Most pictures I've found show them near one of the many (citrus) fruit packaging plants, but were also active near lumber mills, and some gravel pits , I guess near enough any small industry that the SP had customers. So unless you're a strict prototype modeler, you could use some modelers license and deploy one anyway. :-)

The stack is easy to make, I scratch build mine. I used a core of a two flat styrene strips and slipped a drinking straw over the top, coated the strips in Glue, and then squeezed the straw , giving me a stack that was round on the sides, but with a flat front and back, see picture.

Sw900e build progress by Koos, on Flickr

It could be that for an Alco version, there actually is a detail part around somewhere, I haven't looked.

Koos