Some more of my ALCos

[modelmaker51]

I built these before I converted to DCC so I wanted to have these locos speed matched to the rest of my fleet. As these locos were Tiger Valley models I got dummy units and converted them to Atlas drives. I had to cut holes in the frames to clear the Atlas trucks and carve a motor mount, then cut out the bolsters from an Atlas frame. I milled out mounting pads with my MicroMart drill press then glues d in the bolsters with JB Weld epoxy. Once painted it look like it came that way.









Tiger Valley fuel tank with lots of lead added:





Ready for the paint shop:



Assembled drive:



Painted and decalled shells:



5023 (sorry about the quality of the following photos):







5019 (sorry about te quality of the following photos);






Now of course we have the Atlas units available to us, but they don't run as good as these two - with all the metal these two brutes weigh in at 32 ounces each!