10-01-2011, 06:00 AM
Yup! #4141, one of the last in service (there are about 4 still with NJ transit).
Unfortuneately, the poor reliability of GP40FH-2s have made them a target for retirement.
While plenty of these did operate on the AC line in the beginning, they are hard to model. That shell that Matt Snell was doing was last available in 2006, and there were less than 100 produced (I know the guy who makes them). I had one, it blew up, and then i made a mold of a new one, but that mold is also in poor shape, so modeling GP40FH-2s will still be beyond me.
I'm proud of me though. As good as that RMC article is, he forgot to fix the pilots. the stock pilots on the IHP shells are for regular GP40s. If you try to mount the details properly, they won't look right. the sort i grafted on out of necessity is actually the real shape of the anticlimber.
still good though!
![[Image: gp40fh21011110.jpg]](http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/7795/gp40fh21011110.jpg)
Unfortuneately, the poor reliability of GP40FH-2s have made them a target for retirement.
While plenty of these did operate on the AC line in the beginning, they are hard to model. That shell that Matt Snell was doing was last available in 2006, and there were less than 100 produced (I know the guy who makes them). I had one, it blew up, and then i made a mold of a new one, but that mold is also in poor shape, so modeling GP40FH-2s will still be beyond me.
I'm proud of me though. As good as that RMC article is, he forgot to fix the pilots. the stock pilots on the IHP shells are for regular GP40s. If you try to mount the details properly, they won't look right. the sort i grafted on out of necessity is actually the real shape of the anticlimber.
still good though!
Modeling New Jersey Under the Wire 1978-1979.
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