this question came to mind after seeing this picture http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=149200&nseq=1 and this picture [url]http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=242749&skip=-1[/url} . Now mind you the AC4400CW is my favourite locomotive and I own several from Kato in HO. But there is also a BB locomotive that is of the 4400 configuration and it would make a great subject for such a modeling project. Mind you if one has sound then the sound file could be of an engine that has serious issues as well.
So the question is has anybody done such a project?
Excuse me for being a wise guy here, but I already have a model of an pending engine failure, and I don’t even have to try.
My shiny, unweathered, HO Alco C-855 looks as fresh as the day the prototype left Schenectady for Omaha, but by virtue of it being what it is, I have an authentic representation of an engine failure ready to occur at any minute!
It wasn’t for nothing that Union Pacific had all of its Century-855s reduced to scrap metal within seven years of their delivery.
In another thread I mention a certain Mehano( with ‘made in yugoslaikia’ on it) E7 that I weathered to look a little more like it had suffered a major traction motor fire. You see, the rear truck somehow, over the decades, acquired a badly warped appearance and I felt that it needed help to look the part–so now the sides where the truck warped now sport some serious scorched/rusted areas, and, after having discovered the ‘pitted marks’ my father remarked the thing had, now has ‘rusted out bullet holes’ from people using the rusted/burnt hulk for target practice----
