Something different for me

[wheeler1963]

Wow talk about mass production!
Please please please tell me the chassis on the lower right is an IC loco?

Rick, IDK yet. Seems more BN engines meet that fate. LOL

 

[Alcomotive]

Wow talk about mass production!
Please please please tell me the chassis on the lower right is an IC loco?

Rico.......

did you see this?


https://www.ebay.com/itm/372880745765


your IC man?

 

[Rico]

Wow that’s now a deal!
No, not really an IC man, just hoping he’s not going to wreck one of Sherrel's favourite paint schemes.

 

[wheeler1963]

I got all of the motors installed last night. They purr like kittens, even at low speeds.

 

[malibu43]

Jerome - are these replacement motors, and if so, where did you get them?

I have 4 Athearn Blue Box GP's that I'd like to get all running closer to the same speed, and had considered installing the same motor in all of them as an option.

 

[wheeler1963]

Malibu, no these are the original motors 20, 30, 40 years old?? Just cleaned them up, changed brushes where needed, hard wired them in to the trucks. There are many that replace these old BB motors with can motors or even Genesis motors. I've never felt the need for that.

 

[wheeler1963]

Added a couple of Aurora & Portland SD40-2 snoots into the mix of SD40-2's I've been working on. I've had these 2 shells in the projects bin for years, decided it was time to get them finished. Patching some of the BN SD's into BNSF now.

 

[wheeler1963]

More progress on the Fleet. Got the handrails installed tonight. Will start painting them tomorrow.

 

[kjd]

Most BN locos had black walkways and, later, black on top of the noses. Athearn eventually got them painted so back in the day I painted them myself.

 

[tootnkumin]

Will start painting them tomorrow.

I would have thought you'd prepaint them before installing?

 

[wheeler1963]

I would have thought you'd prepaint them before installing?

Ray, I don't push the stanchions all of the way in the sill until they are painted and glossed.

 

[santafewillie]

The SD40-2 is my favorite loco. Gotta love those porches!

 

[tootnkumin]

Ray, I don't push the stanchions all of the way in the sill until they are painted and glossed.

I was forgetting too, that those are the wire rails etc, so need to be in place to hold the stanchions in the correct positions.

 

[Greg@mnrr]

I loved bending the top of the stanchions over the rails....!

Nice work.

Greg

 

[wheeler1963]

All handrails painted. Waiting for paint to dry before I start putting them back together.

The green fleet.

The black fleet.

And a couple for me.

 

[max diyer]

Excellent job on the paint jobs, Jerome *****

 

[wheeler1963]

Thank you Jim

 

[Burlington Bob]

You do some mighty nice work, Jerome!

 

[wheeler1963]

Thank you Bob.

 

[wheeler1963]

The green fleet is 97% completed. 5 powered, 2 dummies.

Rick, yes #7050 is just for you!! LOL It'll get some more distressing to go along with that smashed fuel tank.