ModelRailroadForums.com is a free Model Railroad Discussion Forum and photo gallery. We cover all scales and sizes of model railroads. Online since 2002, it's one of the oldest and largest model railroad forums on the web. Whether you're a master model railroader or just getting started, you'll find something of interest here.
I wonder why they used a heavy locomotive as a shell for radio equipment and nothing else? You would think a old MOW caboose/transfer or box car would have filled the bill just as nice!
Some rr's have used old non-loco equipment, like WC used an old CP van, CP used old boxcars and Bunits for radio robots and the NS use old flat cars...just some examples, there are many more.
Here's one of my works in progress. I took an old Life-Like 0-4-0 from my younger days and added a bevvy of homebrew bits and pieces to turn it into a gritty, but relatively well maintained switcher. There are quite a few rough spots here and there, but it looks pretty good. I intend to re-motor it sometime, both to improve its running qualities and to get that big can out of sight.
(The pic's in black and white, but you're not missing anything)
That is a awesome model!!!! Very well done. Im sure in real life it has been rebuilt and held together with great stuff expanding foam!! They like that product alot
This Kato SD38-2 started out as a C&NW unit, which I stripped and painted in CSX yn2 scheme. I also had to transplant the headlight from its between-the-numberboards location to the nose, and add a few other CSX-specific details.
The fellow I did some work for modelled a ficticious modernization of the Michigan Central, as though it had survied and was still operating. Here is a GP35 with a paint scheme I came up with for the current railroad.
This was actually about 10 years ago, and the owner has since passed on, the model railroad dismantled. This and some rolling stock is all that is left.
This is an old MDC Harriman 4-6-0. I replaced all the detail with brass parts, replaced the cylinder block with one from Bowser and scratched the valve gear and piping of course. Turns out I unknowingly built a model of a T-28 4-6-0 used in Texas by the SP subsidiary there. I came across an old Prototype Modeler magazine that had this very conversion in it! I have another loco, that is currently awaiting a repaint that is it's sister.
This one I painted for a friend in town who is a CB&Q modeler. The only things missing in the photo that are now on the model are the couplers, window glass, crew, bell rope, and the MV lenses for the headlights. They were all put in place, as well as a decoder, shortly after this pic was taken. Hardest part was getting the stripes and the correct slant of the stripe on the hood. It was a real PITA!
and lastly
This was my Dad's loco that he fired during the 1930's for the Southern.
i have a question did the real one still function at all after the accident adn does this trashed model opwerate just like any other loco or has it been stripped of all these parts to repair other locos
!
Did that engine finally get scrapped or what?
