Trains.com

Subscriber & Member Login

Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!

Taking the shell off of a IHC GG1

1124 views
4 replies
1 rating 2 rating 3 rating 4 rating 5 rating
  • Member since
    November 2013
  • 618 posts
Taking the shell off of a IHC GG1
Posted by DAVID FORTNEY on Monday, January 9, 2017 9:43 PM

is it a press fit? I don't see any screws. 

  • Member since
    September 2002
  • 216 posts
Posted by KemacPrr on Monday, January 9, 2017 11:03 PM

Spread the sides and it will pop off. Exact same shell as the old Rivarossi/AHM version. ---  Ken 

  • Member since
    November 2013
  • 618 posts
Posted by DAVID FORTNEY on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 4:59 AM

Thank you Ken. 

  • Member since
    July 2006
  • From: North Dakota
  • 9,592 posts
Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 8:52 AM

ditto.

 

I'll not be running them on my subway layout but will look swell on my static display of Penn Station. They will all be lit, although I may not even put them on tracks. Who can see them behind the high level platforms.

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

  • Member since
    October 2006
  • From: Western, MA
  • 8,571 posts
Posted by richg1998 on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 2:00 PM

In case you have not done it yet, I found this in an older trains.com GG1 forum search.

Put your thumbs on top of the engine between the pantograph and cab and your fingers under the edge of the body shell on either side. Gently spread the body with your fingers to release the tabs holding it on the chassis. Repeat on the other end and it is off. Just press on it to snap it back on.

 

Rich

If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.

Subscriber & Member Login

Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!

Users Online

There are no community member online

Search the Community

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Model Railroader Newsletter See all
Sign up for our FREE e-newsletter and get model railroad news in your inbox!