I had a old Delton Doozie railcar cadaver, no wheels, motor, interior, just the the body shell, that has been laying around for over a year now, I also picked up a copy of HArry Brunk’s great book “Up Clear Creek on the Narrow Gauge” which included an article on the Colorado % Southern combine #20, which had one end of it rebuilt into a closed vestibule on the baggage end, I thought that would be a neat project and as I’m trying to finish off alot of old unfinished business I figured I could take the Doozie cadaver and bash it into a reasonable model based on #20.
The Doozie hood and frame removed, cab peice glued back into place, visor removed with scribed sheet styrene infilling door windows and covering window location. End details added, Ozark brakewheels and handrails.
LGB trucks added.
Painted, still needs a little trim paint and decals.
I’m supprised you didn’t make it self powered! Nice to see you build something that is not a prime mover!.. oops, probaly should not have said that. Watch out guys and gals, he just might rip it up and put in a brick!
Just what do you do with all those prime movers? A quick survey of your pic’s for the last couple years it looks like you have a unique set of ratios. For every piece of rolling stock you have seven prime movers, and for every foot of track (bench or dirt) you have 3 prime movers? (Just putzing with you) Actually I’m green with envy over your skills at producing these little “pieces of historic art”.
Tom, with all the hubbube beginning a couple years ago of construction when we demo’d and rebuilt the garage causing me to tear up both the indoor and small outdoor layouts, I ended up a layoutless model railroader, all I had was my workbench, so I made best of it, kept myself active, but it was very slow going until I could begin to rebuild the indoor layout, which I did last winter, I had to quite work on it again after June due to other priorites and a few other things that have happened, I’ve once again again been limited to mostly workbench projects. Also I tend to work in short busrts, as time allows, good for small projects but not good for larger ones. So combine these factors with a voracious imagination of what I could build and as a result, I’ve ended up over a couple years of this, with far more rolling stock than I’ll ever be able to use on the layout at one time. Ehh, it happens…I’m hoping this winter as temps cool down, I’ll once again be able to resume work on the indoor and I think I have enough spare track to relay the old outdoor layout as well, I just need some real freetime, which is a rarity for me these days. I still have a list of projects an arm long, but still, not too bad for someone who was once convinced he could never, ever afford large scale…
