Kitbashing a GE 80 Ton CENTERCAB

[Mileswestern]

I have all these left over shells from building Boxcab locomotives for clients, I thought I'd take some of the Bachmann 70Tonner shells and make a Centercab using a pair of shells carefully grafted together. This included making the cab double ended. Read more about how I built it at Interacting with Miniature Railroading. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://modelrailroading.wordpress.com/">http://modelrailroading.wordpress.com/</a><!-- m -->





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[nachoman]

This is bookmarked for later!

[FCIN]

Very interesting kitbash! Look's more like a 65 ton than an 80 ton though, but nicely done none the less. Good work!

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Very Nice! it looks a lot like a 100 ton switcher at a nearby museum (though with a different paint job). I like these little GE switchers.

[doctorwayne]

Nice work, Miles.

Here's a couple of prototype 80 tonners:




Wayne

[Mike Kieran]

Miles, how did you do it?

[Mileswestern]

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[Green_Elite_Cab]

That little electric has an old MP54 pantograph from the 1960s kits on it!

You could probably base it on the E10B, a real life GE switcher that looked very similar to a 80 tonner. They initially replaced 1920s era boxcabs on the Niagra Junction railway, near Niagra falls, New York. the "NJ" was absorbed by Conrail in 1976, and these switchers initially outlasted most of conrails electric operations in the PRR territory. Conrail eventually scrapped some and sold the remainder to the NYC are commuter agency, Metro-North Commuter Railway, where they were rebuilt to run on third rail and Received MTA "Silver/blue/red" paint. some even pulled trains passenger trains, but VERY rarely. It seems once they went to the MTA, they lived out their lives underground