P5se Camelback’s EOY Challenge

[P5se Camelback]

I can see your point Gary, and it's a point well taken. I have taken the Dremel to it with a couple of fine tungsten bits to allow for Kadee coupler boxes (none of those original parts were in the box and no method of installing couplers was apparent. I just swalloed hard and lacking any kind of drill press or milling machine, I held the casting in my left hand, the Dremel in my right, pulled the Optivisor down and beagan spreading very tiny Zamac shards all over the place! Yes, the bit "caught" a couple of times - I'll probably mix up some J-B Weld to fix the damage - but overall I'm getting closer to being able to insert a Kadee draft gear box in the appropriate place.

[Photos to follow soon ... I have a ton to move from the camera to the PC from yesterday's festivities ... 10-month-old grandson Cayden's First Christmas - only one gift from Santa, one from Grandma, one from Granddad, one from Mom and a metric ton from aunts, uncles, cousins, second cousins and Mom's coworkers (even the office Cleaning Lady!) He was so over-whelmed he actually dozed of on a stuffed elephant with the two bigest gifts to go - both are Ride-Ons!]

But Gary, I'll consider your point ... it is a good one!

And now the Good doctorwayne weighs in as I labor over my ever-more time-consuming, increasingly dyslexic typing skills! (Why is that happening?) Yes, doctorwayne, your points are also good ones! (I must say though, that the Reading Company is the inspiration of everything that is Lehigh Susquehanna & Western and that the several diesels which I all of a sudden possess will all be painted as Reading Company motive power (they are all too recent (by as much as 35 years) to be on the LS&W layout.)

I suppose there is a lot to be said for keeping the G. D. Stock kit a PRR piece (it would be easier on me) but it would then be merely a display piece and I would have to embark on a new research dig as I have no idea of color, details, lettering, etc. I wish I wouldn’t get myself into these quandaries! I have a bad enough time making decisions in the first place! Then add all this “antique kit” with all the many discrepancies that kits from “back in the day” had … they were plenty good enough for “then” but woefully inadequate for “now.”

I’ll have to cogitate over this one … either way, my chances of finishing in time are looking slim! Just another project that’s farther along than it was two months ago.

Oh, well …

EDIT: I just realized that if I do go with making it a Pennsy Scale Test Car, I’ll have to dig out the filled in “corner steps!”
Not too tough, I guess, just time consuming.
I wonder how rare this little bugger is, anyway?

... And did I already screw up it collectability/rarity-wise by digging out material from the coupler pocket area to insert the Kadee box?

This is all I could find re: Mr. George D. Stock, Model Builder, of Philadelphia, PA

George D Stock

GG-1 Cast Brass 1936-1950.
   
Approximately 100 made. Made one at a time, not massed produced. Dual motor. Brass body with cast metal parts including gear housings and main frames plus side frames, Pilots, leading / trailing trucks with side frames, roof detail. George Stock's motto "The oldest name in HO Gauge Model Railroading since 1936"

Plans and parts sheet for this model can be found in the HOseeker Literature section.