I finished this up several months ago and have been meaning to post it. It's a F.R.E.D. installed in my CSX boxcar. The idea came from the Ztrack article a few months back which recommended Ngineering products (which I purchased). I ended up moding the instructions in the article by adding a fiber optic strand to the LED which slides through the silver F.R.E.D housing attached to the rear truck. The article showed the Nano LED at the end of the truck, but it is very hard to solder due to its size and the magnet wire is extremely fragile (it broke on me several times when the truck would enter and leave turns in the track). That's why I decided to leave the Nano LED inside the boxcar. I painted the LED red and the fiber optic strand carries the right amount of light out through the F.R.E.D. housing.
Made a small house out of some stripwood and other wooden parts left over from some earliar projects. I wonder what this house could/will be on my layout? BR, Albert
Joe, the fred light installation looks great. I have a fred on one of my CSX boxcar also. Albert, nice job on the house. Its it a kit?
i like the little building. it looks to me like a small town lawyer's office, or assay office (if you have a mining operation), or even a post office. or you could get creative and imagine it to be a repair shop of some kind (violins, guns, washing machines??). dave f.
By the time you put in a service desk, a work bench, a potti with running water, enough clearance to open the door(s) - I'd say it was more of a Z Scale repair shop - but small hoppers and box cars only. No big stuff like High Cubes or Intermodals etc. ...don
Looks like a single product store or service shop. Put a nice big weathered sign on that big white space you have. Maybe a fence around one side / back. Place some working figures or people carrying things in / out of the building. .
Well I'm working on a LOW nose GP9 :tb-biggrin: for Robert(pray59) in MRL. Also working on a WP 30' gondola kitbash for myself. I'll post pics as I progress on the GP9. Now only if I could remember where I put that darn saw??????
Nick, Please let us know how you do the GP9 conversion. I'm planning the same project for one of my geeps sometime in the near future.
Nice coincident, I'm in the process of preparing for a low nose CN GP9 and a SP GP20, just turning all the odd parts....
GP9 getting a nose job Click on the link below for a sneak peek:tb-biggrin: It would not let me put a pic up for some reason http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/picture.php?albumid=179&pictureid=3114
Hi Nick, looks very good, did you merge a GP35 with the GP9 cab? Did you actually do the angle on the short hood? The front on the prototype is a bit lower than the the other end next to the windscreen.
Gerd this unit is an actual rebuild done by Burlington Northern so there is no angle on the short hood. And yes I used a GP35 windows & numberboards & GP9 cab. I'll post better pics once I get a chance to primer the unit.
Some new laser buildings have seen the light off day this weekend. Still some work to be done but okay for Christmas.
