10-19-2010, 06:29 AM
biL,
The classification lights need only be lit if you intend to use them. The prototype spent most of it's time with those lamps off. So the option is yours. Plus, you then need to decide what color you want them. The prototype had a clear outer lens, with a plastic lens behind it that could be rotated from clear, to red, to green. Being a Conrail modeler myself, IF I lit them, I would use red, as that was the only color CR ever used, and even then only when on the rear of a train, such as in pusher service or when running light.
If access to the headlamp assembly is difficult, you could place a small diameter tube on the roof of the cab that leads to the headlamp housing. You should be able to add this without even removing the cab interior. Perhaps drilling an appropriately sized hole in the rear cab wall. Then you could just slide your headlamp bulb- on long wire leads- into the tube loose, without glue for easy replacement. Of course, this would assume using a larger bulb, not scale bulbs that actually fit into the headlamp holes.
BTW, the 645 sound is correct, remember this is a turbo 645, as apposed to the very similar looking GP38 which is a non-turbo 645. The way you can tell, since I know you are a steam guy, is that the GP39-2 should have only 1 exhaust stack. The GP38/38-2 has 2 smaller exhaust stacks.
Oh, and isn't this your second diesel since that Varney F3...? Or am I only imagining the ALCo S-2 that you are working on?
Dave
The classification lights need only be lit if you intend to use them. The prototype spent most of it's time with those lamps off. So the option is yours. Plus, you then need to decide what color you want them. The prototype had a clear outer lens, with a plastic lens behind it that could be rotated from clear, to red, to green. Being a Conrail modeler myself, IF I lit them, I would use red, as that was the only color CR ever used, and even then only when on the rear of a train, such as in pusher service or when running light.
If access to the headlamp assembly is difficult, you could place a small diameter tube on the roof of the cab that leads to the headlamp housing. You should be able to add this without even removing the cab interior. Perhaps drilling an appropriately sized hole in the rear cab wall. Then you could just slide your headlamp bulb- on long wire leads- into the tube loose, without glue for easy replacement. Of course, this would assume using a larger bulb, not scale bulbs that actually fit into the headlamp holes.
BTW, the 645 sound is correct, remember this is a turbo 645, as apposed to the very similar looking GP38 which is a non-turbo 645. The way you can tell, since I know you are a steam guy, is that the GP39-2 should have only 1 exhaust stack. The GP38/38-2 has 2 smaller exhaust stacks.
Oh, and isn't this your second diesel since that Varney F3...? Or am I only imagining the ALCo S-2 that you are working on?
Dave
-Dave