Here’s something else Ive had on the back-burner for a while.
A stretched and chopped GE 45 tonner.
Hey, it’s a chop-nose, wide-cab road switcher!
I’m pondering raising the long hood a half inch or so, just to make it look a bit beefier. Thinking about adding an RS-whatever style curved roof, too. Need to mock one up out of cardboard.
Not to bust your bubble, but someone (I believe in Oz) has already done that. It came out a darn fine looking locomotive. I do believe GE did make a locomotive similar to that with BB trucks (non siderod) under it.
I’ve seen the Oz ‘45 tonner conversion’. He went for an SW look, with a rear cab and long front hood.
Warren Mumpower said:Well just about everything has been done by someone else before. Truly original ideas usually result in a Nobel prize.
Not to bust your bubble, but someone (I believe in Oz) has already done that.
-Brian
The one I saw had the road switcher conversion as yours does. As I said, it was quite neat. I’m taking one and making 2-2 axle side rod critters out of it. They will be MU’d together to run as a pair. They will be end cab with the Bachmann nose stretched and widened to make a 7/8ths scale locomotive. I’ll scratch a cab. A thought…I might even make one a “B” unit. I have pics of critter “B” units MU’d to its mother locomotive…no cab just a platform with a radio/hostler box.
1,2,3,4,5,6, hmmmmmm I count like 7 projects there on the bench…
Bart Salmons said:Yea, Bob, you need to straighten out that bench a little...............looks about as messy as mine................;)
1,2,3,4,5,6, hmmmmmm I count like 7 projects there on the bench..........
Only 7 projects…??
Bart, I’ll make sure you stay out of my work area…
Got pictures? The only one I know if is Bill Cooper’s
I’ve got at least one more of that locomotive. The angle you see it at is deceiving. There is a nose on the other end…
I’ll look to see if I can find it.
Probably thinking of this view
But, again this is the rear end of the loco
It’s coming along, Bob. I like the idea of the raised hood and curved roof - have you made the mock up yet? 
I havent done the roof yet, but I did raise the back hood, or at least cut the cab wall to accommodate it.
Lines look a little beefier.
Oh yeah! I like that look.
Go for the curved roof!!!
Are you just stretching the frame, or rebuilding it?
I’m rebuilding the base. I have a hunk of 3/16 acrylic that I cut out the right width, and about 5" longer than the regular 45 tonner. Itll sit on that, and the trucks attach to the bottom. Ill sheet it with Plastruct diamondplate on the areas where you’d step.
The end platforms will be a bit wider than what was on the 45 tonner, too.
Hmm…too much…
Thats better…
Yep…go for the curved roof!!!
I like the look of it in the first picture…