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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Jun 28, 2020 3:41:28 GMT -8
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Post by TBird1958 on Jun 28, 2020 6:41:13 GMT -8
On the bench this AM.....  Pig, lipstick......…  |
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Post by riogrande on Jun 28, 2020 6:59:32 GMT -8
Most excellent bulkheads Mark!
What is being modeled by the pig/lipstick car?
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Post by TBird1958 on Jun 28, 2020 7:22:19 GMT -8
I'm not sure yet, Jim. I'm considering FGE, WFEX, ART, and URTX at this point, I have to spend some time researching some photo sites, admittedly this is a backasswards way to do things...……..
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Post by lajrmdlr on Jun 28, 2020 7:36:37 GMT -8
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Post by GP40P-2 on Jun 28, 2020 9:29:19 GMT -8
admittedly this is a backasswards way to do things...…….. As if that has stopped most of us from ever having done that at some point in our modeling.... |
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Post by dti406 on Jun 28, 2020 9:54:17 GMT -8
Good afternoon from sunny, hot and humid Northeast Ohio! Managed to get a couple of cars done this week, last week it was white and black, this week is going to be black and white. _IMG_0861.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Atlas 20,000 Gal Tank Car kit painted with Scalecoat II Black Paint and lettered with Islington Station Products Decals. I had a done a number of Corn Syrup cars for Cargill, this time a Vegetable Oil car for food processing. _IMG_0799.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Exactrail Evans 5277CF Boxcar Kit, Painted with Scalecoat II White Paint and lettered with Herald King Decals. Car was built in 1979 and was used in either paper or lumber service out of Abbotsford, British Columbia. I remember seeing one of these new cars in Golden, BC while attending the NMRA convention in Calgary in 1979.  In keeping with the time period, I added an old picture on took on the club layout of my SP SD45T-2 and SD45 (with Elephant Ears) hauling a mixed freight of mostly lumber hauling boxcars along with other mixed freight. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by sd50f on Jun 28, 2020 9:54:38 GMT -8
That PTTX bulkhead (the unloaded one) is amazing! The loaded one, too. Lots of great modeling here...I'm going to have to get some things going so I can share.
Got motors in the mail today, so 2 chassis will get some power. Shells are almost done.
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Post by packer on Jun 28, 2020 12:11:04 GMT -8
Not as fancy as some of the other work.   Adapting modified Accurail PS4750 EMD cages to the intermountain PS4750. Would have been a lot easier if I could have just found some IM end cages, but they haven’t had the parts in years and I got tired of waiting. |
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Post by fr8kar on Jun 28, 2020 14:05:07 GMT -8
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Post by fr8kar on Jun 28, 2020 18:33:31 GMT -8
Not as fancy as some of the other work. Maybe not, but it looks pretty clean to me. I wouldn't have known you made the change if you didn't point it out. I'm glad to see you found a solution. At least with Accurail their parts are almost always available (except for the scale size draft gear). |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2020 19:03:31 GMT -8
More progress on my ex-Kennecott GP39-2. I made a new flat inertial hatch using the Cannon part as a template and a donor for the grille. I also installed some new fans. Not shown in these pictures are the new Blomberg B sideframes with clasp brakes, Cannon alternator door, exhaust and extended range dynamic brake access doors. It's now primed and ready for paint. Hopefully I'll be thinking about decals this time next week.  I never noticed the slope in the cab roof on the prototype. A very unique detail. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more on this project! |
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Post by thunderhawk on Jun 29, 2020 20:32:27 GMT -8
The cab on that GP39-2 is interesting. Also interesting is the two ex Kennecote Soo units don't have that unique roofline.  4599 kept it's high clearance fuel tank while 4598 got a standard one. |
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Post by fr8kar on Jun 29, 2020 23:35:38 GMT -8
MKT 383 ended up getting a new standard cab but all the other GP39-2s they got from Kennecott had their original cabs modified like 380. I've seen a couple others that went to different railroads where more of a boxy shape was welded to the top of the cab for the doors and another that appears to have the cab raised up to match the carbody.
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Post by loco8107 on Jun 30, 2020 5:29:47 GMT -8
Nice job on the 39-2! How much longer are the real units over the other GP38/39 variants?
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Post by fr8kar on Jun 30, 2020 6:49:02 GMT -8
Nice job on the 39-2! How much longer are the real units over the other GP38/39 variants? I don't think there's any difference in overall length. Both the GP38/39 and GP38-2/39-2 should be 59' over the pulling faces if I remember correctly. |
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Post by loco8107 on Jul 1, 2020 14:27:36 GMT -8
You’re right. I was fooled not seeing the dynamic brake is further back on the hood on that version.
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Post by fr8kar on Jul 1, 2020 18:03:57 GMT -8
You’re right. I was fooled not seeing the dynamic brake is further back on the hood on that version. OK, that was a phase change. The early GP39-2s had the engine located three feet farther toward the front and the fuel tank shifted to the back. Phase 2 had the engine shifted to the rear and the fuel tank all the way forward. The fuel tank thing isn't as obvious on the Kennecott version because of the high clearance fuel tank. The Athearn Genesis model doesn't appear to allow for the correct placement of the fuel tank on either Phase 1 or 2 Santa Fe units. In fact, the position of the high clearance fuel tank on my model is slightly too far forward because moving it aft would require machining the frame and that's not something I can do on my own. |
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Post by loco8107 on Jul 2, 2020 7:09:20 GMT -8
You’re right. I was fooled not seeing the dynamic brake is further back on the hood on that version. OK, that was a phase change. The early GP39-2s had the engine located three feet farther toward the front and the fuel tank shifted to the back. Phase 2 had the engine shifted to the rear and the fuel tank all the way forward. The fuel tank thing isn't as obvious on the Kennecott version because of the high clearance fuel tank. The Athearn Genesis model doesn't appear to allow for the correct placement of the fuel tank on either Phase 1 or 2 Santa Fe units. In fact, the position of the high clearance fuel tank on my model is slightly too far forward because moving it aft would require machining the frame and that's not something I can do on my own. Gotta love not being prototypically correct when they advertise that and charge that much. |
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Post by fr8kar on Jul 2, 2020 10:56:24 GMT -8
OK, that was a phase change. The early GP39-2s had the engine located three feet farther toward the front and the fuel tank shifted to the back. Phase 2 had the engine shifted to the rear and the fuel tank all the way forward. The fuel tank thing isn't as obvious on the Kennecott version because of the high clearance fuel tank. The Athearn Genesis model doesn't appear to allow for the correct placement of the fuel tank on either Phase 1 or 2 Santa Fe units. In fact, the position of the high clearance fuel tank on my model is slightly too far forward because moving it aft would require machining the frame and that's not something I can do on my own. Gotta love not being prototypically correct when they advertise that and charge that much. I may be wrong about this and it may be that Athearn hasn't modeled the earliest Santa Fe GP39-2s with the fuel tank set back all the way. I'll have to look into the original roster more, but in the meantime this photo of 3433 shows what I'm talking about: www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3441605 |
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