General Motors - Diesel Hydraulic GMDH-1

Anyone ever hear of this?.. OHHH GOOGLE...

OHHHH one of those!..

which yields:

Ahhhh, now we know where the Edsel stylists were exiled to - Ford dumped them on GM!

hehehe good one!.. Although i have to admit these units are kinda catchy in the style department...

OP was asking about drawings.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

At least there were several of these. As opposed to the Ingalls 4-S 'turret cab', of which there was only ONE, on the GM&O and a brass model of it is being offered.

OTOH Van Hobbies/PFM did a model of CPR/MLW's one and only RSD-17, the "Empress of Agincourt"

I know but this was the best i've found so far...

That reminds me of the GM Futurliner bus...

OK, I could have gone all year without a visual of highways coast to coast full of Greyhound Futurliners.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Here's a start..

JC Smith Jr did a drawing in an issue of X2200S a while back.

From another news group at another time:

Where can I find drawings of the GMDH-1 switchers. Needed for a HO project build. Anyone done a kitbash etc.

JC Smith Jr did a drawing in an issue of X2200S a while back

On 11/3/2007 9:03 AM Steve Caple spake thus:

Actually, you're probably thinking more of the "Aerotrain":

Now *there's* a great train that looks just like a '57 Chevy.

Denks Gott it doesn't look like *this* Aerotrain:

That's uggggggly.

I always thought there was something neat about that one. Not a pretty loco, just interesting.

Looks like someone was brought up on comic books.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

That may be the best you've found, but it's not what the original poster asked for, and your wise-guy reply "Anyone ever hear of this?.. OHHH GOOGLE..." wasn't warranted, unless you can supply a Google link to GMDH-1drawings. In the future, I suggest you read more closely what the message is asking for before ypu play the "Google card..."

SC:

The horsecollar is an acquired taste, but IMHO the Edsel isn't a bad- looking car.

Neither is this locomotive, actually. Something looks French or maybe German about it. It's probably the cant-sided turret cab. If I'd never seen it before, and somebody showed me one painted in SNCF colors, it would seem almost normal.

Cordially yours: Gerard P. President, the Venango & Erie.

On 11/8/2007 11:54 AM snipped-for-privacy@gannon.edu spake thus:

So I was right: it reminds me a lot of the Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulic locos, which I've actually seen in person (rotting carcasses sitting next to the former Sacramento Locomotive Works/present California Railroad Museum "boneyard"). Definitely Euro styling.

BTW, Gerald P: you might want to check your news agent (looks like Mozilla something-or-other) settings, as all your lines wrap in an ugly fashion. Line lengths set too long?

And what's a "horsecollar"?

Oh blow it out yer tailpipe - as you evidently didn't see because you didn't read the whole thread, i've gone out of my way to find even one front view drawing of this elusive prototype - nuff said...

Huhh? I don't think there's ever been anything like that designed in Europe - well, other than a Piccasso nude. Pure USA.

It's a collar placed on a horse so that it can more comfortably pull loads.