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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Student of Big Sky Blue</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Railroading_Brit</i> <br /><br />While we're talking FP45s, can anyone say if it they have the same distance between truck centres (or even better, the same trucks) as the SD45? The reason I ask is I have a pair of unpowered N-scale FP45s that were given away with a magazine a year or so ago (they're good mouldings, painted in Amtrak colours), and would quite like to motorise them, as nobody offers N scale FP45s at the moment. Bachmann SD45 mechanisms appear on ebay UK fairly regularly and would be fairly simple to fit into the models assuming the trucks, etc are right? Thanks for any help/advice! <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />If the models are a straight F-45. Then an SD45 mechanism is what you need. But if they are an FP45 with the steam generating equipment, I would suggest you find an Atlas SD 50/60 Mechanism and add SD45 side frames. THe FP45 is Longer than the F 45 and That extra Frame length is needed for the FP45. I have seen people strip and repaint and redetail old AHM FP-45s and mount them on Proto-2000 SD60 drives. I am sure the same can be done in N-scale. I have a couple SD60s that I am going to heavily cobble and kitbash into SDP45s. Basicly a non-Cowel FP-45 <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Thanks for the help - I'm not sure whether they are FP45s or F45s though - I think the same magazine offered a SF Warbonnet F45 later on so they may have cut a corner and used the same tooling. I think I might have to look for a cheap Bachmann SD45 that I can either use as a chassis donor (if it turns out to be the right length) or detail and keep as an SD45 if it's too short. Thanks again to all who responded!
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