What diesels would you like to kit bash but the prototype does not exist?

[Anonymous]

A Proto2000 Electro Motive Corp BL-2 with a model rocket engine moulded in on the roof!
I don't know what it would be good for, but it'll be fast.
There is a photo on page 95 in the March 04 issue of M.R. of a New York Central RDC with two jet engines on top. Who on earth had the right stuff to pilot that thing.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by StillGrande

How about a solar powered steam train with a solar and back-up battery tender (or 2)

Just thinking of the next generation ACe locos.

With a cordless extension cord for yard work?[:D][:D][(-D][(-D][:-^]

Jeremy

[Anonymous]

LOL FU-2 no i can't do that u have to build a hood from the parts i have

[Morpar]

My big nasty is the CC80-2. Take a pair of Athearn F45 shells and splice them together (but only one cab), custom built frame with 4 F45 trucks, and SD40-2 front and rear porches. Put the trucks on span bolsters a-la N&W "Jawn Henry", and stuff the biggest Sagami can motor that will fit in the body shell. The theory is this, my road had a group of 25 "Jawn Henry" style turbines. When they finally wore out, they were traded in to EMD. F45's were in production, and they were being bought in quantity. At the same time, the rotten , evil Union Pacific was boasting about having the most powerful diesel locos in the world, so we teamed up with EMD to make the biggest, baddest, best looking diesel yet. The span bolsters from the turbines were reused to help distribute the weight and reduce track wear. The frames were built up with 2-20 cylinder, 4000 hp. EMD diesel engines. To blend in with the rest of the new locos, and since they would be used for both passengwer work and the then new intermodal trains, the F45 styling was chosen for the body. Since the -2 line was being introduced at the same time, all the locomotive's systems were built to those specs. Oh, and I might add, it does look pretty good coupled to a Union Pacific SD90MAC!!

[sparkingbolt]

I'll go out on a limb here, since the topic deals with diesels, but how about a diesel era steam engine? in the June 1982 Model Railroader was an article on the ACE 3000, a proposed new age steam engine. it looked like 2 wide bodied diesels back to back, but with steam-piston driven running gear on one of the units with nice big drivers, a boiler consealed within the hood body.

It was to be fully modern, with microprocessor fuel management and a great many improvements over the best of the last steamers. I think it had a 4-8-2 wheel arrangement. The "support unit" (tender) featured modular fuel containers that could be loaded on with fork lifts, and it would recycle the steam and condense it back into water for reuse in the boiler. And the whole locomotive featured lots of other cool features, both from a prototype and a modeling point of veiw.

The proposed "prototype" never made it to the rails, so was it really a prototype? It would still be a great subject to model, and fit right in to the modern diesel era with some freelancers license.

What does anyone else think about this? Dan

[sparkingbolt]

Sticking more strictly to the topic as posted, I like 4 wheeled "critters" so any number of small diesels would be fun. I have already built a 25 tonner based on memories of a GE 25 tonner, only to find after I built it, it rather fits into this posted catagory. It uses body peices from a 44 tonner.

I also built a 20-23 ton box cab 4 wheel switcher to no specific prototype from peices taken out of an MDC box cab body, again with a Spectrum drive.

A small 8 wheeled box cab, shorter than MDC's, using Spectrum drives on a shorter wheelbase would be cool. These Ideas are at the other end of the spectrum from Brothaslides "behemoth" loco 'bashes, and other's "DD--" ideas, all of which carry just as much merit and potential prototype "what if" possability. (too big for my caboose chaser layout)

I think this is one of the more creative forum topics to come along in a good long while! OH it makes me want to go ahead and build a 44 tonner sized switcher out of that extra RS3 body I have in the diesel parts box. Chop-chop! Dan

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by sparkingbolt

I'll go out on a limb here, since the topic deals with diesels, but how about a diesel era steam engine? in the June 1982 Model Railroader was an article on the ACE 3000, a proposed new age steam engine. it looked like 2 wide bodied diesels back to back, but with steam-piston driven running gear on one of the units with nice big drivers, a boiler consealed within the hood body.

It was to be fully modern, with microprocessor fuel management and a great many improvements over the best of the last steamers. I think it had a 4-8-2 wheel arrangement. The "support unit" (tender) featured modular fuel containers that could be loaded on with fork lifts, and it would recycle the steam and condense it back into water for reuse in the boiler. And the whole locomotive featured lots of other cool features, both from a prototype and a modeling point of veiw.

The proposed "prototype" never made it to the rails, so was it really a prototype? It would still be a great subject to model, and fit right in to the modern diesel era with some freelancers license.

What does anyone else think about this? Dan

Here's a link to a drawing of the ACE 3000 and the Ultimate Steam Page web site.

http://www.trainweb.org/tusp/ace_det.html

[Anonymous]

DDA40X-FP45-GP60-SD75

[brothaslide]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy

DDA40X-FP45-GP60-SD75

With our without dynamic brakes?[8D]

[Anonymous]

A nuclear steam engine. Heres how it works:
A nuclear reactor heats H2o and makes steam to drive the wheels. I've got a drawing of one that looks vaguely like a veranda turbine.

[:D][:P]