IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
Hello Forum denizens, I promised my friends in the Coffee Shop that I would write a separate thread about a project I've been working on-and-off over the past four months: Taking a pair of mothballed HO scale Atlas GP40-2's and kitbashing them into "dash-nothings", i.e., regular GP40's that I could use on my 1969-72 era B&O layout.
It all started late last spring, when I made an impulse purchase of a NOS Atlas GP38 from an eBay seller - because it had the early-style dynamic brake blister that came on EMD's earliest-shipped units in 1966, before they they shrunk them down to accommodate the large sand filter enclosures. I was sharing about this in the Coffee Shop thread when a member named Paul, a.k.a. "kjd", mentioned that Atlas sells replacement dynamic brake hatches in both the old and new style. This little tidbit of knowledge would really come in handy in the near future (thanks Paul!).
A day or two later I was searching for something in my attic when I caught sight of a pair of GP40-2 models leftover from my days of modeling CSX.
(I tried to post a link to a seller's photo of a unit identical to one of my own, but got a "403 Forbidden" error message when I tested the link...
Sure wish I would have thought to photograph my own units back in the days when they were active...)
(to be continued...)
It all started late last spring, when I made an impulse purchase of a NOS Atlas GP38 from an eBay seller - because it had the early-style dynamic brake blister that came on EMD's earliest-shipped units in 1966, before they they shrunk them down to accommodate the large sand filter enclosures. I was sharing about this in the Coffee Shop thread when a member named Paul, a.k.a. "kjd", mentioned that Atlas sells replacement dynamic brake hatches in both the old and new style. This little tidbit of knowledge would really come in handy in the near future (thanks Paul!).
A day or two later I was searching for something in my attic when I caught sight of a pair of GP40-2 models leftover from my days of modeling CSX.
(I tried to post a link to a seller's photo of a unit identical to one of my own, but got a "403 Forbidden" error message when I tested the link...
Sure wish I would have thought to photograph my own units back in the days when they were active...)
(to be continued...)