April Loco builds party

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typical of my round-robbin never-get-things-done style, i've yanked out my half completed AEM7-AC

Amtrak rebuilt its replacements for the the GG1 in the early 2000s, and tacked on another ten years of service (which will be up sometime in the next two to three years, when Amtrak's new Eurosprinter arrives).

The main difference between the AEM7 and the AEM7AC is the switch to AC propulsion. this caused there to be large air filters to be placed on the roof, dispersersing the dynamic braking grids on the roof.

I have already completed two of the three difficult parts, 1.) recontouring the roof to match prototype, and 2.) building the air-filter boxes. The last hard part will be installing ditchlights as there are NO ditchlights on the Atlas model.

Another tricky part will be making the dynamic brake resistor grids, which are now spread across the roof of the prototype, since they were displaced by the air filter box.

here is a photo.



prototype