rebuild

[railroader9731]

Well I finally done it my first rebuild, doc will know this loco. I bought an set of RS11's on here a while back one powered and one not. I took the dummy and completely tore what was inside and rebuilt it with a new motor and trucks from an ft locomotive. 604 is now a powered locomotive known to the HBL as a RS11-2.

[doctorwayne]

Any chance of a picture, Harry?

The 604, originally a powered locomotive, was an example of the only plastic RS-11s available at that time, from LifeLike. Unfortunately, they were poor runners, with the motor mounted on one truck and powering that truck only. I removed the motors and re-did the handrails and a few other details. When Atlas released their smooth-running version of the same loco, I bought two, and paired them each with one of the dummies. I had thought about re-powering them, but back-dated my layout before getting around to it, and they were sold as powered/dummy sets.

Here's the 604 leading a train through Lowbanks:




Wayne

[Sumpter250]

604 is now a powered locomotive known to the HBL as a RS11-2.

A "dash" 2 love it !!

[railroader9731]

Here sets RS11-2 just out side of the shop setting on the lead track.

[doctorwayne]

Very neatly-done, Harry.
At one time, it was very common on some roads to see trucks from traded-in Alcos under newer EMD products, so I suppose turnabout is fair play.
It's good to see the old girl back in service and even more useful than before.

Wayne

[MountainMan]

Very nicely done.

[railroader9731]

Thanks for the kind words and ill admit it took one heck of a push to do this as ive never done it before. But as said you never know until you try it and I wasn't as bad as I thought it to be. Now I set and look at the few locos I have setting around ither broke or burnt out