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If you like steeplecabs, I have a link on my old computer (I'll have to fire it up and retrieve the bookmarks) for a guy that makes steeplecab shells to fit a Bachmann 44-tonner. Lots of small electric lines used the 40-ton through 80-ton electrics. The CNS&M also had a battery-powered locomotive for non-electrified sidings (used trolley otherwise). Immediate prototypes coming to mind are: Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee (www.northshoreline.com) and Illinois Terminal (see irm.org for photos of #1565, a class C 16-wheel electric loco) Drawings of this loco are in the Traction Guidebook. The North Shore (CNS&M) acquired 2 of Oregon Electric's home-built locomotives around 1948. Drawings of "the alligator" are available in CERA books, but the otehr I've not been able to find any. These both have been done in brass, but I'm planning on doing them up in plastic then making casts. I'm trying to devise a power truck for them that's on a 7'6" wheelbase and doesn't cost $89 like a SPUD. I'd like to do this using Athearn gears. I built a prototype truck in styrene, but it's slightly warped and doesn't work reliably. I'll have to make it from brass, then cast it, or just build more carefully next time.
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