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Is there a switcher in the house?
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#46
09-10-2011, 12:37 PM
Mike Kieran Wrote:Sumpter, what did you do for the front and rear porches? I love this model. I even have the Gem models one in brass as well as the Athearn model.

The "front and rear porches", if memory serves, were cut from Athearn S-12 ?? shells. I intend on scratch building steps for another "Hustler modification". Some sheet styrene, and a NorthWest Short Line "Chopper III", "Poof !!" 's done ! ( OK, "will be" done Goldth Wink )
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#47
09-10-2011, 12:48 PM
Hello---here's a Montreal Locomotive Works S-4 CNR switcher

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#48
09-11-2011, 12:56 PM
Chuck Wrote:Shortliner,

Your Hustle Muscle center cab looks great -- it just looks powerful. My center cab splice came from a 70's Rail Modeler magazine. The article originally called for an Athearn chassis as the pwoer train, but I decided to grind down a P2K SW9 chassis because it just runs smoother than an Athearn. One of these days I will actually finish the shell work and paint it. Someday.... Big Grin

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well.................mine has been sitting waiting for couplers for around two years!
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09-11-2011, 01:18 PM
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#50
09-11-2011, 02:15 PM
One of the switchers assigned to service my steel mill.


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#51
09-12-2011, 09:02 AM
Hello---a couple of Grand Valley SW-1200 road switchers are spotted at Leetown.Transferred from their home terminal on the EG&E,these locomotives served a dual role of local switching and branchline power.These two units have just returned from Port Maitland.

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#52
09-16-2011, 03:51 AM
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The picture was taken on my workbench. An ALCO HH660 from Atlas. I customized it for my ET&N.

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#53
09-16-2011, 07:35 PM
I caught the twins switching a boxcar into the public warehouse.

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#54
09-16-2011, 11:33 PM
A SP switcher is still presenting it's bloody nose in the streets downtown
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#55
09-17-2011, 12:28 AM
Hi Folks,

that is my switcher sweatheart

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09-17-2011, 12:34 AM
Enviable ! Worship Worship Worship

I like this diesel !
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09-17-2011, 05:34 AM
That's a cool diesel, is it a brass import?
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09-17-2011, 06:41 AM
Welcome Hardy!! Nice start! Thumbsup Thumbsup Thumbsup
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09-17-2011, 07:19 AM
Here is a short history of the INGALLS diesel:

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#60
09-17-2011, 09:45 AM
Hi Dave,

yes it is an AJIN Brass Model. Only 200 where build from Ajin. I have added a Loksound 3.5 Sound decoder with an Balwin sound wich sound maybe mostly to the original sound.
I think the sound was like a fishing boat Goldth

Here is another switcher (P2K S1 GM&O 661)

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