If you have been following along with me you know that I have a ATSF SD45 I wanted to patch. Well I got around to patching one side. I'll post more photos when I get farther. I still have to do the nose and the other side.
The SD45 I'm modeling was one of the very few that kept it's orginal number, but ran around in WC reporting marks.
http://www.locophotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=24565
http://thomas766.fotopic.net/p2346011.html
Before.
After.
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Being an old Conrail fan, I take a kind of morbid interest in paint outs... I like to slow down for car wrecks on the highway, too...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
wm3798 wrote: Being an old Conrail fan, I take a kind of morbid interest in paint outs... I like to slow down for car wrecks on the highway, too...Lee
A ConRail fan? Is that a PennCentral Fan that finally got over it?
Nice SD45...Always was one of the better looking schemes for a WC SD45 to be in (besides WC itself, of course.)
Phil
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Looks good!
first ever V&AL lettered locomotive was a silver/red warbonnet that was spotted out... you did a better job than I did way back when...
Shame to do that to such a nice paint scheme.
You did an excellent job, though....kudos!
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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Thank you guys!
What I wanted was for the blue to be a bit lighter than the blue on the model. It's hard to tell in that photo. But in this Next Photo you can tell.
I messed up a little bit on the nose decals, but I'll fix that later. The WC on the battary box on the side of the cab, I messed up the "W" along time ago. I'll fix that later too.
Here are some of my other Patch Projects I woudl like to do.
Another Style of Patching on the SD45s. This was more common.
http://www.railroadmichigan.com/wc6593.jpg
War Bonnet FP45.
http://thomas766.fotopic.net/p40325057.html
Possiably a BN SD45. This BN SD45 was one of the last Green Weenies on the WC.
http://thomas766.fotopic.net/p34826518.html
That will about do it for the 45 model series. I will also be doing a few SOO and Algoma Central Locomotives.
HEdward wrote: wm3798 wrote: Being an old Conrail fan, I take a kind of morbid interest in paint outs... I like to slow down for car wrecks on the highway, too...Lee A ConRail fan? Is that a PennCentral Fan that finally got over it?
I once caught a train in my pajama's. How it got in my pajama's I'll never know... (sorry, Groucho)
Oh no he did-n't!
Take THAT!
wm3798 wrote: Oh no he did-n't!Take THAT! Lee
Nice take that Conrail haters
Also did i mention CSX and cumberland?
How bout NS?
Tjsingle
Tjsingle wrote:
Just another classic example why you should look behind you when you back up.
seriously, who was the nut who did that? I think he could be arrested for DUI!
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OzarkBelt wrote: Tjsingle wrote: Just another classic example why you should look behind you when you back up.seriously, who was the nut who did that? I think he could be arrested for DUI!
You know how many times the people at CSX have done that, TOO MANY
See... If they had DCC, that engine would only move if you WANTED it to move!
trainfan1221 wrote: HEdward wrote: wm3798 wrote: Being an old Conrail fan, I take a kind of morbid interest in paint outs... I like to slow down for car wrecks on the highway, too...Lee A ConRail fan? Is that a PennCentral Fan that finally got over it?It was easy to get over Penn Central! Funny you spelled ConRail like that, it was the original spelling.
I guess I'm showing my advanced age. I'll never be over PC. I wonder if there are any CSX or NS locos old enough to have been repainted through four or five owners?
Shot this one in Seaford, DE last week. The chicken wire radiator grilles and the short fuel tank give it away as an original PC engine... Not sure of the original road number.
Given that PC merger took place 40 years ago (geez! That long?) I doubt there are many PRR or NYC engines still running for NS or CSX. There's probably a ton in short line service, though.
HEdward wrote: I guess I'm showing my advanced age. I'll never be over PC.
Your advanced age? Why, young man, I knew PC's parents, Pennsylvania and New York Central. A fine couple they were, too. No bride ever looked as beautiful pulling her train down the aisle as a GG-1.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MisterBeasley wrote: HEdward wrote: I guess I'm showing my advanced age. I'll never be over PC. Your advanced age? Why, young man, I knew PC's parents, Pennsylvania and New York Central. A fine couple they were, too. No bride ever looked as beautiful pulling her train down the aisle as a GG-1.
I've seen GG-1s...lived around the corner from Traffic Ave in Queens from 1962-1979. LIRR and Pennsylvania had an interchange track that met under the BMT Myrtle Avenue line. My sons are young, but I'm about to hit 50, believe it or not.