I converted this locomotive from a US outline locomotive to an Australian Sugar Cane diesel Loco.
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| US outline Side Rod Locomotive |
It mostly involved a repaint and changing and adding some details.
Below is a description of the changes involved.
- Removed front all the US style pieces from the buffer beams.
- Removed the exhaust stack and replace it with a scratch built exhaust pipe with muffler
- Repainted the chassis green
- Repainted the bonnet and cab yellow
- Repainted side rods and counterweights plus buffer beams red.
- Added Air-Con units made from cut down Bachmann "Big Hauler" headlights and fly screen.
- Weathered with a black wash, I went a bit heavy handed originally but have now removed a large amount to give a more toned down subtle weathering.
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Repainted with cane bin in tow
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Repaint Side View
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Repaint Rear View
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Repaint Front View
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Rear buffer showing scratchbuilt Air-Con units
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| Weathered Top view showing new exhaust pipe |
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2 comments:
weird no railroads in the US ever used side rod diesel all of the early switchers were stuff like the NW1 SW1 RS1 and stuff like that
Guess the AT&SF markings are just LGB poetic linence.
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