Showing my ignorance of this loco class: are they somehow derived from old steamers? Sure does look like a pair of old switchers back-to-back...Does look great, and look forward to seeing shots as you progress through working on it!
There's a Wikipedia article with a good overview of the EP-2. Next time you're in St. Louis, you can see the last remaining one at the Museum of Transportation.
As the wiki article will say... This was an electric built by GE (with some help by ALCO) in 1919 and early 1920. Only 5 were built. Since it was 1919, it does indeed have some similarity to steam. Round contours. Headlight looks like it came right off steam loco. Boiler room in middle originally had a ladder and high door (railroad closed up a few years later). Class lights look like steam.
There is a very long and very detailed thread on another board (not sure if we are allowed to mention other boards or threads here). Some people double post stuff, but this was so long I just picked one.
Building a rider car for 1957 ATSF's Fast Mail http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine...der-car-for-the-Fast-Mail&p=949710#post949710 ~Bruce
I know which one it is. It is one that I am banned from and when I forgot that I was and tried to log into, it redirected me here....
I installed some MT 903s on my ex CR geep and it looks much better now. The original accumates just cluttered up the pilots and took away from the other details.
Two UP GP-20s on the helicopter pad of a very weird ship. The ship "kit" is too big for my work bench so the dining room table has stepped up to become a temporary work bench.
Russel, Looks like a next generation hydrographic/acoustic geologic survey boat. Cool. Mine's covered in strip wood that's trying to reduce itself to a trestle or two.
The Houston office of the Norwegian company who owns the prototype, received the model from a model builder in Japan. It arrived in pieces. I am trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
I installed a decoder and ditch lights into my ex CR GP38-2. The ditch lights are 0402 SMDs and are wired and programmed to flash via F2 on DCC.
I have two projects on my bench right now. Picked up a Kato PA-1/PB-1 set in NYC paint at a train show for $100 and need to put decoders in them. The B unit is going to be my first loco with sound. In addition, just got a large shipment of Digitrax DS51k1 decoders that I am going to wire inside the roadbed of all of my Kato switches (including a double crossover which I believe I need to put 4 in). My first attempt I think I burnt out the decoder because the loose and bare solenoid wire touched track power. Going to have to tape down those wires to make sure they don't touch what they aren't supposed to in the future.
Busy weekend for me. Watched some football and worked on finishing this trio. All three are current paint schemes for the CSX units with 4551 and 4558 being the only two SD70MACs that have the new boxcar logo applied (so far...). Fairly easy since the request was for just paint. No details or weathering this time around. Two were undecorated units and the third was a BN unit that was stripped clean before painting. Three days in a bath of Scale Coat Wash Away plus a little scrubbing with a toothbrush took the Kato paint right off. Cheers, Brian
Decided to knock a few projects off the workbench this weekend. Among others, I had a couple GP38 shells I wanted to paint for the local Rail America road before the prototypes get repainted orange and yellow. The project itself has been in the works for several months, but I only recently picked up semi-correct shells. Haven't bothered trying to get decals for the project yet. G&W painted over the RA lettering on the hood of a RA painted GP9 assigned to the same road and added reporting marks and new road number on the side of the cab. I'm half waiting to see if they'll do the same to the RA painted GP38s as well before trying to track down usable decals for the project. I am aware of a RA decal set Highball Graphics has, but last I checked, he didn't have a Huron and Eastern set in N scale. The crane is totally free-lanced. I had a silver crane sitting close to the workbench and I figured it would make a nice accessory to the two locomotives. The paint needs a few small touch ups yet, the couplers on the crane need to be swapped out and the locomotives need to be reassembled, but I think the three will make a nice trio when they're finished. In the background of the second shot you can see another Rail America unit, which was a practice piece for these units. I've already painted several of the newer units on the Huron & Eastern's roster, but I wasn't sure how to mimic the half star outline in the RA scheme. I wound up making a cut vinyl mask that I can use for multiple units so that each unit doesn't have to be unique. It means the most difficult part becomes matching the placement of the mask to the placement of the pattern on the prototype. The unit in the background was a test for the paint masks (the prototypes don't have dynamic brakes, the shell in the background didn't look so nice after I removed the dynamic brake blister, hence its use as a test shell).
Just recieved my $40 CSX Dash 9 yesterday, so I took some time "correcting" things to get it lease-worthy. I masked and painted all the little grilles, which turned out pretty good. I also masked and painted the hand rails grey. This loco looks a lot better to me now. I still have some things I want to do, which include adding missing handrails, numberboards, MU hoses, windshield wipers, wind screens, and painting some odds and ends, but so far so good.
