John's Loco Workbench - More Projects Begin...


Progress on SP 7342 continues slowly:
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The Athearn model being used is a lot more difficult to work with than the Proto 2000 SD45 I used for 7399, the latter had separate parts, the Athearn one only separates into cab and then the rest.
 
I keep pulling this one out of the to-do pile, looking at it and putting it away:
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What we have here is a good old Athearn Blue Box GP60 in EMD Demonstrator livery. I do like this livery a lot which is probably why, when it was dirt cheap, I bought it.

EMDX 6 here was one of a trio of prototype/demonstrator GP60's, the livery is accurate for it but then things start going a bit wrong. The Dynamic Brake blister is the later version, the cab should have rounded off edges and the trio were fitted with SP-esque light packages on the short hood end.

The light packages I can deal with, I could change the dynamic brake blister but that would mean a partial repaint, the cab alterations are a non-runner.

Need to have a think about this one, maybe a what if had SP bought the three demonstrators and later changed the cab to a standard version, oddly they did buy the GP60 in considerable numbers but despite the SP lights, the demonstrators were never taken on.
 
Then again...

...problems!
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A wire has cone off and the tab on the end of the circuit board has snapped off. Soldering isn't working...

Meanwhile, being an analogue dinosaur, I presume this is a DCC chip of some kind?
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That will have to go...
 
As it stands, I have power pick up from both trucks on one side and one truck on the other, sort of old school 1980's Hornby!!!

I have had a thought though, if I extend the detached cable across to tab on the board where the feed from the other truck on the same side attaches, that may work.
 
jmupton2000 said:
As it stands, I have power pick up from both trucks on one side and one truck on the other, sort of old school 1980's Hornby!!!

I have had a thought though, if I extend the detached cable across to tab on the board where the feed from the other truck on the same side attaches, that may work.
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Yes, that will work.
 
The boards it started smelling burnt and I panicked, I think it was because the motor not being used in a long time
 
The T&NO Alco S1 No. 10 is almost complete, not bad considering I had just one solitary photo to work from:
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Surprisingly large amount of transfers required for it, culled from several different Microscale sheets:
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The undecorated Atlas SD35, to become SP 6909 (it appeared in the classic Steven Spielberg film Duel, hence the choice of number) has begun with dismantling and filling in of the rear number boards:
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The Alco S1 is done:
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It is missing the small black 10 and TN&O lettering off the nose. I did have some correct numerals and letters on a Microscale sheets but it was so old they disintegrated off the backing sheet so they will have to wait until a fresh sheet can be located.

SP 6909, the SD35 has had all the fiddly detailing parts added plus the SP light show on the nose and is now in primer:
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Unlike the two previous SD family locos on the workbench, this one is a very simple two colours thank goodness!
 
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