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Early diesels of the 30's and 40's

Modeling Motive Power
#81

Many thanks for your comments, David, Rooster, Forrest, Todd & Jerry!

@Jerry: I’m not made up my mind so far - the 70-seat coach would require to change the number & spacing of windows, the 52-seat coach shortening the whole body and the diner/observation would need even a bigger changes of windows’ arrangement.

In later years #9908 was towing two to four heavyweights - maybe I’ll rebuild Aristo-HW to make up this train.

Using the generic Budd-cars to keep the possiblity to interchange with other CBQ-units (have two E8, considering to build the ‘Silver King’, maybe an E-5 or E-7 as well).

Something completely different…UP’s M-23 now got its painted trailer

Regards

Norman

#82

Good! You do an E5, and tell me what I need to know so I can finish mine.

#83

Hi David, your E5 looks good - now only the problem of the side’s fluting has to be solved…

Some new pictures of #9908

Regards

Norman

#84

Beautiful work. You’re a master of curves. That’s an area I do my best to avoid. I enjoyed checking out your blog. You’ve tackled an impressive number of projects.

Shane

#85

Coming along great!

#86

That GM&O job has a pic posted on railpictures dot net the other day

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/612180/

GM&O 1900 was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding Co. of Pascagoula, Mississippi, the only locomotive ever built by the company. Designated as a 4-S model B-B 1500hp, spent its life in occasional local freight in the south, but mostly in switching duties at Mobile. Photo taken from my slide collection.

#87

Thanks for your nice comments, Shane, Jerry and Sean - and thanks Forrest for posting it at railpicture…although I doubt that the guys are interested in modeling on my rather mediocre quality level…

Some new pix of #9908 - now resting on the basic set-up of trucks.

Front: SD40, rear FB1 - so rather all trucks powered than having a non-powered truck on the rear like the prototype (causing problems for #9908 when the GP-Zephyr got three additional HW’s - #9908 was then replaced by an E5). Of course the side frames will be modified to resemble the Blomberg-type on the front.

Regards

Norman

#88

Really looking good. Will the two different trucks work together at the same speed?

#89

Thanks, Jerry - and I hope that the two trucks will run with approximately the same speed after some tuning.

Finally made the pilot - due to compound curves and brass material’s characteristics it is not the easiest part of the building process.

Regards

Norman

#90

Wow and double wow. everything about these builds amazes me. Keep up the fantastic work Norman. Cannot wait to see when they are finished and rolling around the tracks

#91

Fantastic work Norm, when does the kit go on sale?

#92

Thanks for the nice comments, Pete & Vic - and sorry, no kits planned :wink:

Modified the front truck, added underbody details and painted the unit

Current decals will be changed to sharper ones

Regards

Norman

#93

That is very cool!

#94

Outstanding!

#95

That’s your best one to date, always have a soft spot for Zephyrs

#96

Very nice job there, no one else has the nerve to tackle that!

#97

Norman… That is outstanding. The latest images sure show the fine detail of the model.

I have a 4 car MTH Proto 1 set of the Zephyr that we run on our O gauge layouts at the local Mall. It is always a big hit when it runs…

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#98

Amazing!

#99

Many thanks for the nice comments, guys!

Finally made & applied all necessary decals onto #9908

As usual I applied Microscale micro gloss on the decals which this time resulted in a (slightly annoying) misty look- not too happy with it…maybe it changes after application of a dust of gloss varnish

Additionally I finished the paint job on PPU #200 and made & appled the RR 's heralds on the sides

Regards

Norman

#100

Very impressive! Well done.