Cary S-2's

[cnrglen]

I finished the detailing on the two today:

I added the coupler cut bars to the two and the coupler bumper to the Canadian Pacific model. The bumpers are For a TH&B GP9 but they looked close enough to the CP ones.

I now am tuning my attention to the Chassis/drives for the two. I know I'm going to power the CP engine at least, with a DCC decoder so it will be re-motored. I stripped the old black 'jet' motors out of the frames first, then looked to fitting them to the Cary shells.

the frames are designed to drop right into the cary bodies with some minor adjustments.

first I had to trim the mounting pegs of the atlas handrails flush with the sills.

then I had to round off the corners by the coupler mounts on the frames. When the was done the two slipped together for a tight fit.

there are two brass tabs given to attach the frame to the body. seeing as I only had one complete kit, I'll have to fabricate a second set.
Andy, I'm not sure if this is similar to haw the FM body mounts.

So here's how they look now. The bodies are ready for paint. I'm going to strip down the frames so I can paint the sides and below in black. Then I need to figure out the re-motoring process. I have a couple Mashima tan-can motors that I'll try to use. I just have to figure out how to mount them where the huge Athearn motor was.