More funky engines.

[Larry]

Here's a wide cab GP-35. Have to finish it. Might leave it those colors. Ahem!!
Using the handrails off the GP, sides, front & back.

The blue engine is made from an unknown half cab & an F-B unit that has been cut down. Mounted on an old switcher frame.

 

[UP2CSX]

That GP-35 with the wide nose actually looks pretty good. It would be a head turner at a club. That "thing" with with the part FA body and Blunt trucks is really weird.

 

[Aarons72s]

The athearn GP35 with the CSX GE cab looks pretty interesting. Definetly possible. I remember seeing some photos of MoPac GE's with replacement emd cabs.

As for the blue engine it appears to be a old Model Power 1000hp switcher frame, Model Power FA2 shell- Actually a fa-1 shell but I think they marketed as a FA2, And the cab looks like it is off of a old Bachmann U36B. It definently reminds me of the photos of some of the Mexico railroad creations.

 

[Larry]

Here's the GP-35 in the finished state. 3 pictures. have to replace the headlite lens.
I used the original handrails off the GP. Whad'ya think?

 

[UP2CSX]

Bernie, both weird and interesting. It actually looks like something you'd expect to come out of a rebuilder's shop. The only thing I'd do is shorten that long handrail on the cab side.

 

[Rico]

It's alive... ALIVE! (insert sinister laugh here)

 

[blownoutcylinder]

It's alive... ALIVE! (insert sinister laugh here)

Saw this comment from an old surrealist manifesto I have here---

---------------" And yet------it lives!!!" (insert insane laughter here )

Larry I think they both look good here---

 

[jayl1]

Definitly a neat addition to the roster. How many real railroads did something similar (besides body changes for repowering)? I know Penn Central removed the short hood from an RS3 (left space from the steps to the cab) and the Santa FE had a "Beep" - Baldwin cab with a GP long hood. Any others??

 

[Rico]

The CF7 is first to come to mind.