Just ta let ya know I'm doing something railroady

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This little critter is the end result of one good running sad looking basketcase Nscale LifeLike SW9/12.

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I've always liked boxcab style locomotives and decided it was time to build one. She isn't quite done yet I need to make end railings and paint her (blue&yellow of course) Letter her for the GVR and get rid of the rapidos.
 
The Catt Locomotive Works comes up with another winner!
Controls at both ends? MU connections? Bell and Headlights? Ah, a nice touch... a "T" chimney from a caboose?

Whatcha gonna call that little gem?

Hey, it's good to see you're back and enterprising again Catt!
Just go easy when handling the oxycetelene torch during fabrication :)

Errol
 
Actually she'll get a stack from a junk GP35,but she also gets horns on both ends mu connections,headlights,ditchlites(GVR is a modern road).maybe even wipers.:)

By the way I replaced the image above with one closer to her actual size.
 
Catt,

Thats a neat looking buggy.

But not to change the subject but just how hard is it to install ditchlights on say a LL BL2 or SW9/12 or an Atlas U25B? I think ditch lights add so much but never tried to install any.
 
Tyson,I think that this mechanism would work for a center cab with some grinding on the frame.In stock form the frame is way too tall.If I can score another basket case I will find out.:D
 
Great to see you back in action, my friend, & with a neat little "scratch-bash" to boot! :cool:
I agree with Shamus, that looks like some thing a logging co. would come up with, being as they have a reputation for some real inovative 1:1 "kitbashing"! :D
Hows about starting a logging branch as a subsidiary of the GVR?
Sorry, I've been doing a lot of daydreaming myself lately...might as well see if I can get you doing some too! :D :D :D
 
boxcab update

Hey guys here's a rather blurry update on the boxcab.She now has a coat of paint and couplers installed.

Next up will be snow plows(yes two she is double ended) the logo and a road number.Still waiting for the parts department to get the hand rails though :(

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Oh yeah,she still needs windows(tinted of course) and mu hoses not to mention headlites

The coupler you see is not what I am using they are way to long.
 
Wow CATT! I'll eat my words (gulp) :)
What a transformation, and only with a dash of paint!
That will look terrific plying the switching yard, that's a lovely looking workhorse.
Will you have black stiping on the yellow ends eventually?

When you said it was a basket case, was it a rough runner or did it have a damaged superstructure?

Errol
 
Errol,it was in pieces,almost totally disasembled.I'm hoping the guy I got it from can come up with the end railings 'cause I ain't lookin forward to making them by hand.:(
 
Catt,

looking real good, Is there a way you could get the end rails off another donor engine out of the junk box?

Hows 616 for a road number?

Now about those ditch lights I asked about earlier, are they hard to install on a BL2?
 
Ditchlites are best done with fibre-optics.There was a short article in Nscale magizine (Jan/Feb/02) by Jim Reising on using the f-o to do ditchlites.

I only have to duplicate it 24 times for my GVR fleet :( The headlites on this little fella will also be done with f-o.

One tip though,use the plastic kind cause the glass optics will break on you.
 
Errol,that little gal kinda got shoved aside for a little while.I've been puttering on the layout trying to show some progess with it.
 
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