03-23-2009, 11:45 AM
Great looking engines, all around! I've got one of these shells I received in a box lot of 'train stuff' from a neighbor. I had plans to put it on an early Bachmann Spectrum 44 tonner, you know the ones prone to cracked gears. I figured I could cobble together one working power truck and gut the other. Means it wouldn't pull much, but in service on Murdock's Landing it wouldn't have to pull but 3 or 4 cars.
The other plan for the 44 tonner was to again gut one of the trucks but leave the original shell intact. Then I'd either put sound in the gutted side, or open up the doors and put a dummy motor in place. Both are still under consideration, but after seeing how classy you can make one of these boxy things look, I'm tending toward the box cab. Either way it's on the shelf for a while yet.
As to the DG&H, yes, it was John Allen's narrow gauge branch, in HOn3. Cliff Grandt's companion line in On3 was the Hardscrabble and Great Divide. Not sure if there was a connection between the two, other than John photographing Cliff's work to aid in detailing. But if you look carefully...DG&H reversed is H&GD....hmmm....
Galen
The other plan for the 44 tonner was to again gut one of the trucks but leave the original shell intact. Then I'd either put sound in the gutted side, or open up the doors and put a dummy motor in place. Both are still under consideration, but after seeing how classy you can make one of these boxy things look, I'm tending toward the box cab. Either way it's on the shelf for a while yet.
As to the DG&H, yes, it was John Allen's narrow gauge branch, in HOn3. Cliff Grandt's companion line in On3 was the Hardscrabble and Great Divide. Not sure if there was a connection between the two, other than John photographing Cliff's work to aid in detailing. But if you look carefully...DG&H reversed is H&GD....hmmm....
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!