Flange Oiler

[wm3798]

After receiving my WMRHS Magazine "Blue Mountain Express" covering GP35's and SD-35's I realized my engines were missing a critical detail... A flange oiler. It is located in a cabinet behind the cab on the brakeman's side. I cut a battery box from a GP-20 frame to get a reasonable cabinet door appearance, and a bit of handrail to look like the prototype.

Here's an image link to George Ellwood's Fallen Flags photo site:
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/wm/wm7435.jpg

These were the first six axle diesels ordered by the WM, delivered in 1964.  I suppose they got the flange oilers due to some of the curvature on the right of way along the Dutch Line and on the coal branches around Fairmont, WV, where they spent most of their careers...

Kind of hard to see on a black diesel.  I also have to move the horn back to the center of the cab roof, and add a rotary beacon above the headlight.

Lee

[Chris333]

Cool I have never heard of them right on the locomotive. The ones built into the track grease the whole train though, don't they.

Still if the proto had it, you gotta have it !

[Bob Bufkin]

Next time the History Channel runs their show on locomotives, check out the part where they build EMD locos.  They show the flange and how the grease is installed and explain why they have this feature.