Weekly Photo Fun 3/25 - 3/31/22

[tompm]

I converted one of the Rapido Penn Central EP5 (or E40s) into its freight configuration.   This necessitated removing a good chunk of the roof detail, one of the pantographs, the third rail shoes, and re-lettering the unit.   These ran into Conrail but were never repainted.  They ran their last miles in New Jersey, so I wanted to model one of them. 4977 was the last one in service.  

So basically, I have the whole line up of mainline Conrail Electrics.

How well does the EP5 run? I am waiting for the one I reserved which is also Penn Central.