BTW guys, In the picture with the 3 loco's lined up. The B&O EL-5 2-8-8-0, the first loco closest to you I should say.... Remember him! He doesn't even look that way anymore! I had found good reliable sources of information on that exact loco! Its cab # is "7165". I took that picture while it was factory from Rivarossi. I never painted it being it was "close" well I got discusted at it being all the ones I paint are done from real pictures and all so.... And it wasn't prototype, and it bothered me! So I went and custom prototypically painted it! The real one had graphite on its smoke box and boiler front, and the tender never had red oxide paint on the walkway. It did have the red oxide on the cab roof. So It now sports the graphited boiler front and smoke box, red oxide cab roof, and all the black painted on (not dyied black plastic) and the tender is all black. The decaling factory on it didn't have "EL-5" under the cab numbers. It also never had the loco cab number on the headlight sides. And the tender had the wrong size "Baltimore And Ohio" lettering and thats now right! And on the rear of the tender it only had the loco number, I put the tonage of coal, and the capacity of water on it along with the cab numbers like the real one had! I also added dirrectional lighting to it in the loco and on the tender and each are separately controled (cab control not DCC) I installed electronic chips from Radio Shack that supports constant lighting. And also put in firebox glow with one small redish/orange grain-of-rice bulb and some use of fiber optics. And since I started this new addtion to my detailing work (Firebox Glow) I love it! I'm going to add it to all my steam loco's! Its also going to get a sound system that was designed by a company from a electronics distributor that I deal with and has great electronic pieces to make a cab controled loco as good as a DCC controled one! That bad part is the electronics distributor I speak of don't carry 1.5 volt chips for constant lighting! To bad they don't compared to their price for 24 volt ones! I could have a heeping handfull for almost pennies each! [ 08 November 2001: Message edited by: 7600EM_1 ]</p>
Excellent. I would like to see more steam projects and detailing. Russ [ 10 November 2001: Message edited by: rush2ny ]</p>
