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A diseasel for the AV? Maybe... Loooking for ideas

Modeling
#1

I was thinking about possible future projects. One thing I keep coming back to is, “What to do with a pair of Aristo motor bricks?”
I could build two critters, or maybe something like a GE 50 ton end cab (think SP-1), instead.

I don’t have any diesel parts tho - not even the sideframes. So I would have to scrounge almost everything. I also have no pix of the cab interior.

I could always build a one off centercab contraption using a B’mann bug mauler cab with the overhang cut off and two Larry G scale Cat generators, too.

Right now I’m open to suggestions (-- or even scrapbox donations. lol!)

#2

Hey Mik, I have an RS-3 with sound,running painted black, no lettering

Will be a while if interested, i’m out on the road currently.

#3

you’d probably be the only person with one of these

(www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bendix0.jpg)

Or these

(www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-p/pov-35t0ads.jpg)

#4

Forrest, That second one looks an awful lot like 2 Cat gen sets and a big hauler cab on a flatcar… don’t it?

At least now I know how ugly to expect if I go that route.

#5

Mik,
I have side frames, (Alco), and a bunch of RS-3 parts.
Wannum? I’m trying to get rid of a bunch of junk I’ll never use.
PM me with your address.

#6

John, PM sent.

#7

Mik said:
Forrest, That second one looks an awful lot like 2 Cat gen sets and a big hauler cab on a flatcar… don’t it?

Well, let’s put it this way, it ain’t the Peoria Rocket :smiley:

(www.peoriacountyillinois.info/photos/rockislandrocket_1939.jpg)

#8

Why not build a climax or a dunkirk. Its a simple build not requiring much in the way of parts.

#9

Shawn,
In return for the parts, Mik has been “challenged” to see what whimsey dismal critter he comes up with.
:slight_smile: :slight_smile:

I’ll get them out this weekend.

#10

This I gotta see. :stuck_out_tongue:

#11

Allen,
someplace I have a photo of an old “Gas mechanical” … er… yeah. I hope to model it someday if I can find an old Hubley kit. It’s an older Coupe care set on top of a log on a pivot. all the tires have been removed and a chain sprocket bolted on. Under the log is a set of axles again with larger chain sprockets installed. I get the impression the car chassis can rotate on the log by removing a wedge to lower the car, thus lossening the chain allowing it’s removal. Rotate the car by hand, replace the chain, reinstall the “wedge” and away you go. My thought was to take a motor block and apply a thin veneer. Place a dicast or metal car model on top using some delrin model chain to represent the chain drive from the car and away we go! Now that I’ve remembered it I need to find the photo.

Chas

#12

HAH! Found it!

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/wchasr/Chas%20trial%20space/be_1_b.jpg)

Not a wedge but rather a “jack” I think? Chas

#13

WOW!! That auto-railcar contraption looks like something Rube Goldberg could really love. Just when you think an idea is too wierd - There’s a prototype for it!

Thanks Chas,
David Meashey

#14
Dave Meashey said:
Just when you think an idea is too wierd - There's a prototype for it!
And that's what makes this hobby fun :)
#15

John’s large collection of assorted crap, errr lovely parts, showed up today. Actually there were a LOT of useful bits in it, and a few I have no clue what they’re supposed to be. Thank you, John! So I spent a little over 40 minutes chopping and mocking up.

(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j371/AlleghenyValley/diseasel/P1010001.jpg)

(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j371/AlleghenyValley/diseasel/P1010002.jpg)

(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j371/AlleghenyValley/diseasel/P1010004.jpg)

This is more or less the direction I’m headed

(http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j371/AlleghenyValley/diseasel/tr_nych62.jpg)

#16

It will have the flavor.

#17

Glad you got the box of parts.
That’s a partial shell off of an Aristo dash.

A couple years ago, I cut one in half to make a Narrow guage critter.
(Still unfinished…:slight_smile: :slight_smile: )

#18
John Bouck said:
... A couple years ago, I cut one in half to make a Narrow guage critter.
Well, then it will eventually be TWO ng critters!

Tying to decide if I want to give it an extra long ‘front porch’ to make more room for a fuel tank. Or go the off-center cab route. Or just put a single air tank under there. I can shave about 3/16" off each end of the truck frames, and mount the steps to the trucks - but it’s still gonna be cozy under there.

#19
Mik said:
Tying to decide if I want to give it an extra long 'front porch' to make more room for a fuel tank.
That could be inspiration for the back story of it being a standard frame allowing for different diesel motor and equipment options. Examples: maybe there is a 3rd world export model with a steam generator or hotel power generator set occupying the extra space; or, a mining or mill version with extra air compressor for air operated dump cars. Maybe there is even a 6-axle version with fuel tank under a raised cab.
#20

What we have at the moment looks like a sort of cross between an HH660 and a 70 ton (both Alco/GE, one is basically the successor of the other - However the HH models had the radiator rear mounted directly in front of the cab.).

An export model that was dropped at the dock, then salvaged, rebuilt, and resold is a backstory that I have already considered. I know that bunches of Alco/GE 50T, 60T, 65T, 70T end cab engines in standard gauge were exported, but how many NG (the traction motors on NG are much different)? And to where?