F40 Baggage/cab control cars.

Model Railroader Prototype information for the modeler
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Are there any photos of F40s converted into cab control/baggage cars and has anyone made one and what was used?

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Don’t have a picture but it is a standard industrial roll up door. All you would need to do is cut a hole in the side, frame it with styrene and glue a scored piece of styrene to the inside of the shell then paint all that aluminum. the roll at the top is inside the carbody so it is just a square in the side of the engine

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Here is an article telling how one person did it. It looks simple. Doing a Google search for Cab/baggae showed several pictures but I don;t know how to show one here.

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Hi,thanks for your reply to my question,however F40s here in UK are top grade models even the Trainline and I hesitate to cut up a good model for this conversion though I may leave the motor and drive train in rather have a dummy engine unless there is one available.

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Try E bay. Maybe you can pick up a dummy or shell cheaply to practice on or use for the conversion.

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IIRC cabbages were all Amtrak (ex) locos…is that right? What number series would they be in please?

TIA

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All the Amtrak Cabbages or NCPU’s as they call them are old F40PH’s with the prime movers taken out. They are in the 90XXX series, with the 90 added infront of their old F40 number. So for example, Amtrak #218 is now #90218.

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On my TBB shelf (“to be built”) is a Life Like F40PH trainset engine purchased at a swap meet that will someday be converted to a garage door dummy (we see them on the Chicago to Milwaukee Hiawatha Service trains). The Life Like casting is in fact not too shabby. I understand of course that they are far more plentiful and thus cheap here in the States than they would be elsewhere.

Dave Nelson