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Post by tankcarsrule on Aug 22, 2021 4:42:18 GMT -8
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Post by nebrzephyr on Aug 22, 2021 7:26:50 GMT -8
Looks like weathered hopper today. Bob Ex Illinois Central
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Post by simulatortrain on Aug 22, 2021 8:03:57 GMT -8
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Post by TBird1958 on Aug 22, 2021 8:45:09 GMT -8
No time or good enough weather for beauty shots this week, but I've managed to get a GP40 and an RSD15 finished up and put back together. The GP40 is Atlas with a new (old) Kato cab, Athearn tank, Cannon air tanks plus some other odds and ends to finish it off, LED headlights.  The RSD was a fun project, it's a dirtbag and I really like it that way, makes a nice mate for my already finished #401. My Utah Railway roster is almost complete with just an RSD12 and a caboose left to go.  Almost ancient history, a Kato SD45 that I originally built about 20 years ago, the frame is milled and has channel stock and appropriate frame detail added, many years later I came back and redid the fans with Cannon parts and upgraded the headlights to functional Mars type with the addition of LEDS. These units are really important players on my roster as I build it up and start assembling locomotive consists, they effortlessly MU with all the other power I use, Kato and Atlas Geeps. This unit's mates are a Kato'35 and an LLP2K (Kato chassis) GP30, they work together perfectly, the '45 being the "lead qualified" unit and the BB's as trailing units only.  |
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Post by riogrande on Aug 22, 2021 8:52:29 GMT -8
Sweet D&RGW diesels there Mark! And the Utah Rwy RS!
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Post by icrr3067 on Aug 22, 2021 13:22:08 GMT -8
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Post by drsvelte on Aug 22, 2021 14:53:53 GMT -8
That's really interesting. What is the "B" unit - some kind of instrumented or dynamometer unit?
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Post by kpack on Aug 22, 2021 20:45:46 GMT -8
BNSF 486315, Northern Pacific heritage hopper. Scaletrains model, weathered to represent the prototype circa 2016-2017. I left off obscene graffiti from the prototype on the blank side. Prototype: linkModel:   -Kevin |
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Post by Baikal on Aug 23, 2021 9:58:37 GMT -8
That's really interesting. What is the "B" unit - some kind of instrumented or dynamometer unit?
Yes. These are both EMD "test beds", not demonstrators. They ran around for years after EMD stopped offering cab units for sale. Note the ACI panels on both. Equipped with a 645 engine, all kinds of experimental mods, etc.
Thus the later blue & white paint. I think the SD45s demonstrators were the first units to wear blue & white. GP35 / DD35 demos were red & white (or cream?), SD40Xs were black.
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Post by sp3205 on Aug 23, 2021 18:22:11 GMT -8
Very cool! I've never seen those two modeled before, and you really captured some of the oddities of ET909 (the B unit), including the otherwise standard style EMD ratchet handbrake attached to the end. Very impressive! Built 7/49. It was once painted in the same orange and white demonstrator scheme applied to the GP35/DD35 demo set, and lettered "Test Car." Perhaps the dynamic brake fan was there to provide some cooling for the electrical equipment on board? The fan isn't there in a builder's photo of the unit.
Elizabeth
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Post by icrr3067 on Aug 24, 2021 18:57:19 GMT -8
Very cool! I've never seen those two modeled before, and you really captured some of the oddities of ET909 (the B unit), including the otherwise standard style EMD ratchet handbrake attached to the end. Very impressive! Built 7/49. It was once painted in the same orange and white demonstrator scheme applied to the GP35/DD35 demo set, and lettered "Test Car." Perhaps the dynamic brake fan was there to provide some cooling for the electrical equipment on board? The fan isn't there in a builder's photo of the unit. Elizabeth
You are correct when originally built the roof had nothing on it and throughout its life fans and other things kept getting added on to the roof in the '80 the whole roof looked like a factory with all the weird stacks on it. |
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Post by toml on Aug 25, 2021 11:06:30 GMT -8
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Post by toml on Aug 25, 2021 11:08:18 GMT -8
BNSF 486315, Northern Pacific heritage hopper. Scaletrains model, weathered to represent the prototype circa 2016-2017. I left off obscene graffiti from the prototype on the blank side. Prototype: linkModel: -Kevin |
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Post by toml on Aug 25, 2021 11:10:42 GMT -8
I honestly thought I was looking at prototype pix of these hoppers! Great work on those cars, scenery and photography.
Tom
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