Hi, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on here, but I’ve got something to share with everyone that might be helpful to all fellow model railroaders. This idea I’m going to talk about might have already been thought of by somebody else, if so, then just ignore this post. Recently on eBay and Athearn’s website I have noticed quite a few Conrail locomotives with CSX patches. The only thing that makes these CR locomotives so special is that yellow patch. On eBay, I’ve seen Athearn Blue Box Kit locomotives such as a GP38-2, GP40-2, SD40-2, etc. in the Conrail paint scheme but with a CSXT patch or a PRR (NS) patch on the side. The PRR patched locomotives are supposedly very hard to find and very rare. The average price of one of these locomotives in the CR paint scheme is approximately $44.00. I’ve seen these locomotives go for approximately $70-$100 simply because of that patch on the side. I’ve got some news that might be very helpful to some, instead of buying patched Conrail locomotives or buying 2 exactly similar Conrail locomotives or rolling stock to patch one and leave the other as is, Go To Wal-Mart and buy Ink Jet Sticker Project Paper for only about $7. Use MS Word and design your patch, print it using Maximum Printer Quality and Premium Paper Mode. Next, cut out the patch so that it will fit onto the side of the locomotive or rolling stock, very carefully peal off the backing of the sticker to expose the sticky part, then stick it on the side of the locomotive or railcar. If you get tired of seeing your locomotive or rolling stock patched, it’s real simple, just peal off the sticker. The sticker is thin enough so that it blends in very well. This idea could also be used for modelers who want to add slogans to railcars or want to renumber a locomotive or railcar. This idea gives you want you want, but sort of has a “system restore” concept so that you can quickly return the car back to normal without any damages to the origi
That is a very good idea indeed!
Being a modern-era modeler, I will need to do patch jobs on a few locos and rolling stock sometime in the future. One thing I’m planning to do is renumber and weather an old Chessie hopper to make it look like they do on the mainline. Here’s a picture of the prototype:
Note the small patch job. Turns out, CSX has done many of these patch jobs over the years, both on former Chessie hoppers and Seaboard System/Faimly Lines hoppers.
I will also patch up a few SP units, as well as some Conrail units in the future. Thanks for the new technique suggestion! [:D]
-Brandon
That’s not a bad idea. I’ll try it on some of the UP -9’s and -8’s I plan to patch to CNW.
LOL! Excellent.
Bye Bye big yellow monster!!!
nscsx, I picked up some of this paper today at WM, and was wondering is it clear or white, since I havent had a chanch to try it. Mike