This was a stupidly simple bash: Take a HLW chassis, a spare cab from a scrapped cheepo Scientific loco, and a generator load model…
Still need to add some more details and paint to my tastes. Whoever said kitbashing was hard?[:D]
I use that same generator as an engine in one of my 45 tonners:
Bit more progress this weekend 
Grungezilla?
Interior Maybe I should actually look around to finding a Mack motorblock for this thingy 
That’s really looking ugly. Nice job but does it count as weathering when you drip mustard from your sandwich on the motor?
-Brian
Only if you let it dry…:lol:
Its the pastrami bits that are a real PITA to clean off
Thanks, I like to think it looks the “Ghost of Critter’s Past” vomited on it 
Still needs couplers and to order a motor block
like some catsup was splattered there, too.
Somebody get this boy a bib!
:lol:
Done…well it still needs a drive brick but what the hey, thats a minor note, right?
Engineers side
Cab close up
Rear view
Front Last week I had no plans whatsoever for another lokie, but I got to playing with spare parts and well one thing lead to another… but this was fun and now I have to make room for another critter in the barn Weathering is just paint layers of different colors applied with a drybrush technic, takes a little practice but its fairly easy to learn The Generator is a fairly common load item, I got mine at the BTS from Bridgemasters if I remember right, I think its from USA Trains. Who said kitbashing is hard?
Went to San Val yesterday, picked up a Mack and last night switched the block over (after bending the light post to fit the new cab). So its done done done! PS I’ve also packed away the Mack body , so the devil wont tempt me again with yet another bash opportunity.
Yea, right! You’ll be tempting us with another critter within a month… 
Warren Mumpower said:Yeah, ain't that certain. Sheesh with all those critters I wonder if he built some bunny hutches to keep them apart. ;)
Yea, right! You'll be tempting us with another critter within a month....:D :D :P
I hear he’s going to MU them all together and pull 150 car trains…149 lokies and a caboose
Warren Mumpower said:How did you get into my workshop???
I hear he's going to MU them all together and pull 150 car trains....149 lokies and a caboose :D :P ;)
I freely admit I have far more engines than I can ever use on my small planned layout, but I enjoy the modelling itself much more than any other aspect of the hobby, and I always have ideas for new models, so as a result I have far more “stuff” than I can ever use…maybe I should start an cottage industry building modified Macks?
Monster Locoshed? Monster Macks? nah it would never sell…
Victor Smith said:I would think the best might be to have a railroad museum as part of your layout. Therefore you can justify every piece of equipment and "stuff" that is on the property.
I freely admit I have far more engines than I can ever use on my small planned layout, but I enjoy the modelling itself much more than any other aspect of the hobby, and I always have ideas for new models, so as a result I have far more "stuff" than I can ever use...maybe I should start an cottage industry building modified Macks?
Ric Golding said:Ric,Victor Smith said:I would think the best might be to have a railroad museum as part of your layout. Therefore you can justify every piece of equipment and "stuff" that is on the property.
I freely admit I have far more engines than I can ever use on my small planned layout, but I enjoy the modelling itself much more than any other aspect of the hobby, and I always have ideas for new models, so as a result I have far more "stuff" than I can ever use...maybe I should start an cottage industry building modified Macks?
But … but … but he’d still need the room, they don’t stack them at the museum.
Ric Golding said:That idea would be far too big for my current plan but I have to admit that would be a very interesting idea for a large outdoor or modular layout like the Del Oro Pacific, a 'Traveltown' like Museum of Railroads with 2 or 3 tracks holding the rusty remnants of rail. Give alot of guys something to do with them old battery Big Haulers that always seem to be laying around. :DVictor Smith said:I would think the best might be to have a railroad museum as part of your layout. Therefore you can justify every piece of equipment and "stuff" that is on the property.
I freely admit I have far more engines than I can ever use on my small planned layout, but I enjoy the modelling itself much more than any other aspect of the hobby, and I always have ideas for new models, so as a result I have far more "stuff" than I can ever use...maybe I should start an cottage industry building modified Macks?
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:Not so sure about that. Did we tell you about the museum back-lot tour we had in Ottawa on a rainy Saturday morning?
But .. but .. but he'd still need the room, they don't stack them at the museum. :D ;) :D
Jon
Jon Radder said:Hans-Joerg Mueller said:Not so sure about that. Did we tell you about the museum back-lot tour we had in Ottawa on a rainy Saturday morning?
But .. but .. but he'd still need the room, they don't stack them at the museum. :D ;) :DJon
I got a private tour of that museum back in 1972; the company I was working for donated a special machine, which I got to install after I had it overhauled.
But … at that time I didn’t see stacked trains. It wasn’t raining either! 
Just like there is a prototype for everything. On your own railroad, you can justify almost anything.
The History of the Kaskaskia Valley Railway - In 1996, if you would have flown an airplane over southern Illinois, in this area just south of US Highway 50 and along the Kaskaskia River, you could have seen a series of old abandoned railroad right of ways. Most of this trackage is along the CSX tracks in the area of Carlyle, Illinois, the county seat of Clinton County. These splines of track went to coal mines and some date back to the mid-1800’s. These connections with the CSX trackage are formerly the B&O mainline from St. Louis to Cincinnati and was originally the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, a wide gauge line established as part of the Land Grant System of railroads in 1851. Over the last 9 years, there has been a revitalization of interest in the railroad history of the area and new steel has been laid on those old roadbeds. Connecting trackage has gone all the way to Owl’s Bend on the Kaskaskia River, 9 miles south on the old Southern Lines, now part of the Norfolk Southern System. And what was once useless ground has been reestablished to haul tourist, railroad enthusiasts and even a little coal and timber. The railroaders from the Illinois Central shops of Centralia, Illinois and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad have combined with coal miners, timber men and retired Southern Railroad employees and even guys from the old B&O to bring life and steam back to the Kaskaskia River Valley. At one time this area was the transportation hub of Illinois. This is at a time when Chicago was a swamp and there was not even any thought of Ft. Dearborn. The Kaskaskia River, as the oldest highway in the area with river travel, connected this part of the world with the Mississippi River. Eventually the Kaskaskia River was crossed by the O&M tracks at Carlyle and these tracks interchanged with the C, B & Q at Shattuc and the IC tracks at Sandoval. All commerce through this area traversed these lines as the farmland south was called “Little Egyptâ€. It provided produce and raw material to the markets of St. Louis to the west, Cincinnati and points east and then eventually that windy area to north, which became Chicago. So in a selfish way of really just wanting to play with trains, the Kaskaskia Valley Railway was formed on the closed and abandoned property of the “Always Faithful†mine at Owl’s Bend. Old tracks and right of way have been resurrected and for a source of coal, even the mine seams have been opened. All of this is a working railroad, in many scales with people doing what they enjoy and know. The miners are running the coal. Lumberjacks are cutting timber up at the old site and everything is done with steam and a couple of internal combustion engines. People can ride the trains, camp at the old lumber site and even tour the coal mine, as long as they are safe and nobody decides that they need to get lawyers involved. So the work of the KVRwy is that we haul people in the Summer and on special occasions and then coal in the Winter. If the price of coal goes up, who knows what might happen. It’s a great life living here in “The Valleyâ€.
Ric,
That’s quite true, but the litmus test: is it believable?