I know someone in here has a rather unique locomotive. The artist called it an FU-2.
Wish I could remember who. Who else has a unique, one of kind locomotive to share?
I had an extra GG1 mechanism and made an EP-5 ripoff using two F7 shells. With what was left from the noncab ends I made a self propelled steam heat supply for my main station by gluing the ends together and setting it on a U30C truck. It usually gets the comment, “What the H#$@ is that thing?”.
Do you have a picture?
That sounds similar to something I made from two Bachmann F3 shells some years ago.
Hmmmm,
Anybody out there?!? LOL!!!
I guess kitbashing a locomotive isn’t up there on the list of things to do or done!
Anywho, I’m working on an idea for one and hope to have some pic’s up soon!
PICS, PICS, PICS. We want pics.
LOL Jeff!!!
I scratch built this one last year. It is a GE132 ton centercab that started life as a switcher for Ford Motor Company and was sold to the Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad. The prototype that is, mine started life as a pile of sheet styrene.
There is a complete build description here http://www.dansresincasting.com/GE132%20ton%20PG1.htm
Dan Pikulski
www.DansResinCasting.com
Bought an old PFM brass 3800 Santa Fe 2-10-2 some years back at a trade show for $25. Was a real junker. Decided to turn it into a Rio Grande F-81 since the lines were relatively similar. Spent a couple of years kit-bashing on it, made a reasonable facsimile, had a lot of fun doing it.
Last Spring, I got a REAL brass Rio Grande F-81, and darned if the old PFM didn’t look a lot like it. I’m still kind of proud of myself.
New project: I’m about to turn a Bachmann Spectrum USRA Heavy 4-8-2 into a Southern Pacific (ex-EP&SW) MT-2–the one with the elesco FWH. Compared with the PFM Santa Fe, this one should be easy.
Tom
New F-81 heading a freight
My ‘kitbash’ pushing ahead of the caboose.
I kitbashed an SD7 into a SD10… The pictures are really bright and it makes the model look really fake looking . I am still working on the head lights and the glass windows for the model but heck it’s coming along.
Lets see what you think.
Oh ya I also did a little work on an SD40-2 that I converted over to the Milwaukee road style.
The tank had to be shortened on the model so I spent the time and shortened it. I can’t even see where I made the cut.
Extra details and some paint here.
James
Here are a few of mine:
Modified Bachmann USRA light 4-8-2
running boards raised, new air tanks and piping, Worthington fwh system added, new wind deflector, new front end, NYC-style turret shrouding, modified tender, detail parts from PSC and Cal-Scale
FPA/FPB-4 from Model Power FA/FB-2
detail parts from Detail Associates and Cal-Scale
E-7B phase ll from two Model Power E-7As
detail parts from Detail Associates and Details West
Athearn USRA light 2-8-2 (most of the kitbashing is internal, to add pulling power) - detail parts by PSC and Cal-Scale
Gas-electric car from a Rivarossi combine and part of an Athearn F-7 frame
details from Cal-Scale, PSC, MDC, Details West, Detail Associates, New England Rail Service, Athearn, and Bachmann - powered by a Mashima can motor.
Here’s the A-unit that goes with the E-7B. It’s also Model Power, with a few details from Detail Associates and Details West.
An NW-2, from what Athearn used to call an SW1500 - remotored, regeared, and equipped with pick-up shoes. Details from Cal-Scale, DA, DW, and GSB
An SW1200RS, from the same Athearn switcher noted above - remotored, with details from Cal-Scale, DA, DW, Juneco and Athearn
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Here are a few of mine:
Modified Bachmann USRA light 4-8-2
running boards raised, new air tanks and piping, Worthington fwh system added, new wind deflector, new front end, NYC-style turret shrouding, modified tender, detail parts from PSC and Cal-Scale
FPA/FPB-4 from Model Power FA/FB-2
detail parts from Detail Associates and Cal-Scale
E-7B phase ll from two Model Power E-7As
detail parts from Detail Associates and Details West
Athearn USRA light 2-8-2 (most of the kitbashing is internal, to add pulling power) - detail parts by PSC and Cal-Scale
Gas-electric car from a Rivarossi combine and part of an Athearn F-7 frame
details from Cal-Scale, PSC, MDC, Details West, Detail Associates, New England Rail Service, Athearn, and Bachmann - powered by a Mashima can motor.
Here’s the A-unit that goes with the E-7B. It’s also Model Power, with a few details from Detail Associates and Details West.
An NW-2, from what Athearn used to call an SW1500 - remotored, regeared, and equipped with pick-up shoes. Details from Cal-Scale, DA, DW, and GSB
An SW1200RS, from the same Athearn switcher noted above - remotored, with details from Cal-Scale, DA, DW, Juneco and Athearn
The gizmos on the roof of the E-unit are icicle breakers, used to break off icicles in tunnels to prevent them damaging the windows of dome cars. Mine are soldered up from brass bar, then pinned to the roof with brass wire.
Wayne
Its mine!!
This could be one of the more fun aspects of the hobby. At least, I have had fun with it. Kitbashed stuff can even take on a life of its own, beyond that of the original model.
Let me tell you a little story. Years ago, the Mount Airy & Western Railroad( the FCSME’s private road name) had a GE U23B that was involved in a horrific grade crossing accident. Painted in the MAW’s old black and gray scheme, the tanker driver claimed he didn’t see it coming. With new GE Dash 7 units in the paint line at Schenectady, the MAW shop forces sprang into action, fixing #13 and applying a new high visibility paint scheme, the same scheme the new units would get before they arrived on the property. Only one problem, the MAW didn’t have all the right parts to fix #13. Scavenging parts from # 236, a wrecked F7A, they rebuilt her. Rather than calling her a U23B, they reclassified her completely. Can you guess as what?
Well, lets see, it’s the front and an f unit, the back of a u boat, and they upgraded the electrical system so that functionally, it was compatible to any dash 2 unit. So that makes it an FU-2, right ?
What is really funny at shows when I overhear someone pointing at it and saying, “Heck yeah, I seen dem before, they run dem down in Mixeeco!”
Sometimes I can get away before they see me laughing, sometimes not! [(-D][swg][(-D][swg][(-D][swg]
It looks like a well-done kitbash, and your “history” is plausible too. Very nice.
Wayne
And it actually looks better than most of the modern diesels out there.
Dunno about Mexico, but they have something similar in Queensland…
Mark, what pray tell, is it???
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=64811&REPLY_ID=734150#734150
The story of mine is in that thread ^^. The locomotive design in and of itself is a real prototype that isn’t made my any model manufacturers. The paint is based on regular Amtrak Ph. 5 (there’s a photo on Railpictures of the prototype I used) but the logo is my own design.
My odd, freelanced engine that I’m working on is an F7MT; MT stands for Magnetic Traction (take a guess where I got that name from.) The engine is supposed to be an advanced R&D testbed for a new traction system jointly developed by the Selenian Lines Commission’s Almsphalia Shops and the University Of Selene.
The traction system uses opposed electromagnets to accelerate and decellerate the train, much like a mag-lev. However instead of the magnets pushing off of the track, as in the mag-lev, they push off of the axels of the wheels (the same way the new Toyota Triathalon race car does.)
I’m going to be starting the model with an older Stewart Hobbies/Kato Drive F7 a new set of access pannels will be added above each set of trucks and I’m going to custom fabricate some very nice future-retro style truck sideframes to replace the EMD Bloomberg sideframes.
I hope to get it done by the end of the summer.
Cheers!
~METRO