Early diesels of the 30's and 40's

on30gn15 · August 12, 2018, 2:33am

Norman Schaake said:

MILW should rather have spent some money for a professional designer than to try it doing by themselves.

But did they have any more money?
They weren’t quite as hard up as the Rock Island and M&StL, but they sure weren’t hauling cash by the carload.
And while talking money, I’m sure she’s gonna look like a million bucks when done.

I’m kind of partial to this livery, and yes, maybe it is because, shiny! Milwaukee Road #5900 by milepost185, on Flickr

Rooster · August 13, 2018, 12:37am

Norman Schaake said:

Probably its uglyness is the reason that none of the brass builders ever made one.

It’s got a face/body that only a mother/rooster could love!

morten1996 · August 13, 2018, 5:17pm

Shifting to an undisputed beautiful nose:

NYC’s RP-210 has received initial paint - unfortunately my camera distorted the colors (shifting the dark blue to a light one) that even with some quick post-processing the colors are still mixed up

Regards

Norman

on30gn15 · August 13, 2018, 8:26pm

Don’t know how it is to the camera compared to the eyeball but on my monitor that yellow is practically neon! A looooong way from NYC’s black and 2-tone greys!

David_Marconi_FOGCH · August 13, 2018, 9:48pm

Just saying(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

New York Central Explorer
At Dayton Union Station
West End Dayton, Ohio Early 1960’s

The Xplorer was a named train of the New York Central Railroad (NYC), between Cleveland, Ohio and Cincinnati, Ohio. The Xplorer was an attempt by the NYC to modernize rail travel inOhio and lure people out of their cars. The train was built by Pullman to their lightweight Train-X design, and was powered by a Baldwin RP-210 Diesel-hydraulic locomotive.

The train consisted of nine, short, all-aluminum cars articulated together. The center car had two axles (one at each end), with the remaining cars having a single axle each, being supported by adjacent cars at the end opposite the axle. The ride was rough, as with most of the other lightweight trains of the period, and the train was not a success.[1]

The train was retired in 1960, and was sold to Jones Tours, for excursion service. After a long period of storage in South Carolina, the train and locomotive were scrapped around 1970.

The above information was taken from the following website

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/here-s-a-nyc-paint-scheme-i-ve-never-seen

Rooster · August 13, 2018, 11:16pm

Now take the above picture that is matte and beat up …Now you have what Norman has that we do not!

Rooster · August 13, 2018, 11:17pm

I wanna see the cars that adjoin it ! (next build I guess)

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morten1996 · January 1, 2019, 4:14pm

Sorry, rooster, no Xplorer-coaches up to now - but I’m still thinking of doing some

Some news on my projects

MILW #5900 with a modified roof (I finally found an overhead-shot); final varnish as well as glassing missing. An appropiate 48-seat coach is under construction

NYC’s RP-210 is finished apart from final varnish and glassing

Finally a photo with the correct color’s shading

About three weeks ago I’ve started with a conversion of an Aristocraft FA into ALCO’s DL-202 ‘Black Maria’ demonstrator

ALCO ‘Black Maria’

I’ll post some photos of the current status, soon. It took me some time to get the right shape of the nose…it always tended to emerge as a EMD F-type - the diagram in RMC is too close to the F-type nose’s shape.

Best regards & a happy new year

Norman

AndyC · January 1, 2019, 6:04pm

Norman, those are some beautiful locomotives… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)

morten1996 · January 8, 2019, 7:22pm

Andy, thanks for your nice comment

App. four weeks ago I started with a conversion of an Aristo FA into ALCO’s DL-202 demonstrator ‘Black Maria’. The basic design of the shell is finished so far