Just had a thought as for simplifying adding sound to my Challenger imports M2 No.1981 ,thought I;d run it by you as your pretty knowledgable on the GN.
I just happen to have in my collection a Custom Brass K1 Alantic with the old style Grape arbor tender.
Now we know the M2s at one time had these before receiving the modified Vanderbilts ,1981 having been one of them.
Only question is the tender length,should be according to the GN Impire website 34’8 !/2’’
Will check that when i get home.
Anyways sound like I solved the hassle of putting a sound module in 2 Locos as I can switch the tender back and forth if i wish.
Wadda ya think?[:D]
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I finally got home from work! [:D] Actually, that’s a pretty good idea. In fact, I
have pictures of the 1981 on the Inside Gateway at Klamath Falls late in
it’s career (around 1950 or so) and in those pics, she’s lost the Vandy
tender and is equipped with one very similar to the tender that comes
with the PFM H-5 Pacific-a stretched square-styled tender. I, too, do a
lot of tender swapping in order to get my GN steam as accurate as possible.
I still am not up to the Sound/DCC stage yet. Right now, both of my O-4s
and my first O-1 are running equipped with swapped tenders. the O-4s have
the Style 100 four-axle Vandys (as the prototypes were delivered with), and
the O-1 has the smallish square tender from my E-15 ten-wheeler. Even
farther out-one of the original O-4 tenders is being used by my Walthers
Alco rotary snowplow. If anyone ever needed to assess my collection,
they’d have a time straightening things out. Sure hope your idea works out.
Let me know.