I'm sure many of you have seen these trains, and I'll bet some even got took on eBay by this loco, but that's not what this tread is about.... "High Speed Trains" Southern Pacific 9725 GP35 as you mite find from Readers Digest. I have picked up a few of these over the years, I even have a Alaska Railroad version some place in my collection. So what to do with all the "Toy Trains" people keep givin' me, and Yes I even bought a few of these off eBay myself, but I knew what I was getting for my $1 plus shipping...... First thing remove the hand rail across the cab, then cut off the non working couplers, then the back hood section off, and install the Walthers Prime Mover that comes with one of the shop building they sell and you have a unit you can hide in an engine house so folks can't see the details too good, but they can made out its got the hood off and see the engine. So that takes care of one of them, now what?
April Fools Day is coming.... So why not build one up as a "Warp Drive" loco? Being a "Trekie" and having a small start ship kicking around, NCC1701 the "Enterprise" aka James T Kirk's ship, why not bash it together with another of those High Speed Locos? Jim: "Engage Warp Drive" Bones: "Darn it Jim, I'm a Doctor, not an Engineer!" Scotty: "I'm givin' her all she's got Jim" Crewman: "Hey what's that big yellow & gray cube headed this way?"
Warp speed? All's I got is 8 funny notches! Those toys are great derailment scene fodder, too. Thanks for sharing--the Star Trek version takes the cake!
Jolly - when I first saw the thread title my reaction was, "someone else is also modeling Japanese Bullet Trains!" I think your design might be just a little faster that an Shinkansen. Very funny post!
Not as creative, I just replaced the trucks/ couplers on the cars and put them into the fleet. as for the loco, it's in the loco shop, along with my other retired locos.
By the way Commander Jollyfeel free to add them to the "Fantasy Thread" and if you have any desire to do up a couple of my "Thrommers" please do let me know.
I gave the locomotive to my daughter so she has her own train that she can actually touch, now she keep out of my trains!
Hello Jolly, That is a good idea. Although, as a machinist on EMD's, you have the engine backwards. The generator should be behind the cab. Todd
OK, Just how far up behind the cab should it be? I check the WWW for some pics and chould not find any, and having not see under the hood myself I just guessed. I'm sure som eplace I mite have a book that shows that, but I didn't take the time ti look through my book collection.
[trekkie]The Enterprise did have only eight warp factors available before you started to damage the engines.[/trekkie]
On a GP35, the front of the engine(governor end) should be about even with the tall/short door separation, just before the radiator. And that baby should have a turbo and not roots blowers.
"We are the Union Pacific, lower your shields. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." At one hobby show we used to take the Ntrak to they'd always put us across the aisle from a Star Trek group and the banter and joking back and forth showed a lot in common between the hobbies. At the time we were just getting into DCC, and my road, the Westfalen & Gulf's, first DCC engine was GP40-2 1701 which I named Enterpise because we were going where no one had gone before, the engine found it's way onto the trekker's display of spacecraft and went unnoticed by them for half a day until a member of the public asked them what episode the train was from. In return we'd get the occasional shuttlecraft appear on the layout.
