Locomotive of the Day

Hanging out around Helper, Utah...you see things...These are some of my Athearn SD45s. And an SW1000

 

There are a few folks here who should be drooling a bit, seeing this lineup!

 

Awesome line up Paul

 

I don't know which loco I like more, Rio Grande SD45s or Rio Grande SD40T-2s....

 

That was the nicest black diesel scheme. Just the right amount of lettering and trim paint.

 

Here are a couple of Tunnel Motors that started life as plain old undecorated Blue Box kits...I put some work into these.

 

Here we have a builders photo of the D&RGW 4-8-2, 1553 with business car Silver Lizard (my nick name is Lizzard) The loco started as an IHC Mountain, which my friend Chris Hawkins cut down the tender and scratch built the dog house. He also paint he boiler green and added the decals. He built the Silver Lizard from an Athearn round roof coach...

 

A Bachmann 2-8-0 that I modified to be more like a D&RGW C-48

 

Thanks Dale, HA this will stay BN LOL.
I added the sunshades, windshield wipers, AMB glazing, Air dryers with piping, bent up the piping to air tanks, bell, bent the brake cylinder piping and installed, radio and ETD antennas, eye bolts, horn, beacon, snow plow with MU hoses, coupler cut bars, added sand hoses. lets see, thats about it I guess. Oh yea the step lights are all lit up, used Richmond Controls light kit, with a strato beacon.

Thanks everyone who replied, it was a fun build.

 

In this shot, we see D&RGW GP35 3048. This loco is unique in the Grande stable, as it is the ONLY GP35 to have received the large Rio Grande image on the flanks of the long hood. After it was wrecked near Swan, Colorado in 1970, it was sent back to EMD and returned with the Large Rio Grande, as well as the angled inertial filter "dust bin". It's seen here with the leased unit from the South Western & Pacific, 2006. Below is a caparison photo of GP35 3048 and 3036...[both are Athearn models]

 

Caught these two GP9Ms at Helper, Utah.... They are getting some much needed shop time.