Beaut of a loco Shaygetz!
There was a request in another thread for me to show a little more of my control stand in the photo thread. For those who haven't seen it before I have an MRC powerpack inside my model of an EMD cylindrical control stand. The throttle and the reverser work as does the horn cord (which activates a continuous loop tape), and the bell switch which does the same. I have a photo of an F unit cab mounted on the control panel to show visitors just what the heck they are looking at when they see my control stand.
Young visitors are hard on the equipment so I've been making the controls more sturdy.
I've just revamped the loco brake which activates a canned air hiss when the handle is pulled in either direction.
Here is my so called "See-liner", an old AHM dummy C liner that perfectly contains a minicam that sends video to a TV now part of the control stand complex. I've created my own train simulator!
Here's an example of an image captured on the TV by the control stand.
I painted another C liner shell in my freelanced colors as well. The dummy is pushed along by the powered Geep.
Its fun to be an engineer at the controls!
Ralph