Weekend Update 10-14-2007

[Dupesy]

central.vermont!  Where yah been?

[engineshop]

I did not have the time to take the pictures yesterday and I hope it is not too late.

Those are 4 C44-9 that started as low ditch light undecorated models before Kato announced the would do the SP version of the C44-9. Since I already had put in multiple hours detailing it, I did not want to trash them and finished the engines over the weekend.



I tried my hands on a few detail parts I never did before. I made 4 tiny little grab irons for the back of the equipment box.



For the fan on top of the box, I cut some BLMA EMD GP30 fan pieces down. I used a small wire piece for the door handle at the nose door.



I also bend a wire to connect the two break cylinders.



Of course it would have been nice to get a heads up from Kato a year ago about the new release but I will survive.

No for something completely different. I have to say I never painted something so ugly.

[ednadolski]

I've painted uglier things, but not on purpose..... :'(

Nice work those C44-9Ws BTW!  Hope Kato does the re-tooled version in BNSF, with the correct ditch lights, cab windows, cab domes, and grilles.  The fuel tanks on the new ones are a big improvement too.

Ed

[MEC_FAN]

Thanks Eric, stop in again next time your up this way, done any super elvating yet.
Pedro, the radius is 20.5 inches and the grade is about 2.1 percent. I have not torture tested since adding the track coming out the bottom to the lower level. But after I built the helix two years ago I backed a train down it to check it out and one Atlas GP-7 would pull 6 50' cars up, one GP-38 would pull 7 cars and one LL BL-2 would pull 9 cars up. I''l do some more testing once I get the lower level wired up and running, I can pm you the results.