Seattle. 1/22/2010.
These are the modifications that were made to both the Athearn shell and the Kato chassis.
Basic consisted together with matching CV's xcept CV29 reversed.
Here is all the projects that can hold on my work bench. I hope I can get through half of them by mid Feb 2010.
I've been making slow but steady progress on these two Dash 9s. The shells are Athearn and the chassis are Kato. This is a major project for me...
Both inside and out, Seattle's King Street Station is getting a facelift. The microwave antennae have been removed from the tower, and the roof...
Here they are with sister units 637 and 976. The ditch lights on the latter has to be replaced with hi ones along a fuel tank upgrade.
I have two corrections to be done on this unit. I have to remove 2 drop grabs on the nose in order to replace the SF marking with the BNSF...
Here is a close up of the fuel tank details. After cutting away the factory cast fuel tanks. The replacement tank and details are from Dteails...
A closer view of my BNSF C44-9W project units.