I’ve had a GP-40 Diesel Lomomotive sitting around the house, cause I’m still in the middle of laying track, but I finally decided to look at some pictures online for when I do start detailing. And I was curious to know what the thickness of the handrail might be? Also in alot of the pictures that I saw, down by the front coupler was something that looked like a scoop, maybe even a snowplow, what exactly is it? Cause the loco. I have does not come with this.
I also need some help identifying a “Conrail” switcher that I got from ebay…It is really close to the “Grafton and Upton’s” 44 tonner in the lastest issue on N scale but doesn’t have the walkways and the doors are at the outside rear of the Cab. It is also shorter than the 44 tonner from the front to just behind the cab.
Thank you for your suggestions,
Norman…
Could you post photos of the Conrail switcher?
That “scoop” is probably a snowplow, which is used to…plow snow, oddly enough…[swg] The loco you have could be a model of a prototype that doesn’t run in much snow.
I guess that would make sense, the model I have is a Santa Fe the one I was looking at was a Rio Grande.
I have taken a few pictures of the switcher and they all come out extremely blurry. That and I’m not real sure on how to post a pic…
Norman…
Okay I could not figure out how to post pics of the switcher on here, so I uploaded a pic of it onto my “myspace” page, under pics / locos and rolling stock. You can get to the page by clicking on the www. link at the bottom of the post.
Sorry for the pain, but until I can figure it out, this is the best I can do. Hope it helps.
Thanks again,
Norman…
It says I have to log in…
To post photos, all you have to do is when you are posting, click on the icon next to the smiley face above the message text, it looks like a tree. You copy and paste the image URL into the thing that says “Image URL” and then click “Insert”
If you can’t figure that out, you might try linking to it.
Anyways this is the switcher in question. I hope that someone can shine some light on what kind of switcher it is, so that I might be able to find some actually photos of it, to go about detailing it.
Thanks Norman…
It looks like a Plymouth locomotive to me.
greetings,
Marc Immeker
That looks an awful lot like a Bachmann Plymouth MDT switcher. Below is a link with some info on the prototype Plymouth Locomotive Works. According to one of the sites the article links to, the company built small industrial switchers until 1997 that were unique for using torque-converter drivelines. The Conrail Cyclopedia doesn’t say if CR owned any; these would most likely be owned by and painted for the industry it served.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Locomotive_Works