O GP35 High-Hood Diesel N&W #211/3.0

Produced from 1963 to 1966, the GP35, along with its six-axle
SD35 sibling, marked both an end and a beginning. They were the last
road diesels to use the EMD 567 motor that had powered switchers,
F-units, and Geeps since 1939 (so named because each cylinder displaced
567 cubic inches). For the horsepower race of the 1960s, EMD tweaked
the 567 to a turbocharged V-16 delivering 2500 hp. That was it for the
567, however, and in 1966 the baton was passed to the more powerful
model 645. But while the “35 line” diesels ushered out an old motor,
they inaugurated a new look. Their angled cab roofs and the clean,
squared-off lines of their car bodies established the look of EMD power
for the next three decades.

Introduced to compete with General Electric’s landmark U25B,
which had ushered in the second generation of diesel power, the GP35
outsold the “U-Boat” nearly three to one. There was a strong market for
new power in the mid-1960s because the first-generation diesels that
had vanquished steam were wearing out. While first-generation rosters
had often been a hodgepodge of manufacturers and models as railroads
experimented with the new technology, by 1960 Alco, EMD, and GE were
the only manufacturers left standing – and Alco would soon throw in the
towel. As a result, virtually every major U.S. railroad became a GP35
customer, and over 1300 engines were sold in the United States, Canada,
and Mexico.

While our Premier model is not the first O gauge version of
this second-generation pioneer, it offers the best combination of
detail, realism, and performance of any 1/48 scale GP35. Added-on
detail parts include windshield wipers, metal see-thru body grilles,
lift rings, metal grab irons and handrails, see-thru rooftop fan
housings, and brake cylinders, air pipes, and swing hangers on our
super-detailed Blomberg trucks. And in command mode with the DCS
system, you can create a lashup combining one or more GP35s with other
Proto-Sound 3.0 or Proto-Sound 2.0 first- or second-generation power,
and run them from a single throttle just like the prototype.