torikoos Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Here is the S4 again, 98% complete, some additional touch up , and painting of the handrail ends to white to do, and a little extra weathering. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted January 16, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2018 Just flagging up for Alco addicts, the Winter 2017 issue of “Classic Trains”, which I’ve just got, has a fascinating account of how the D&H Colonie shops reengined one of their late survivor PAs with an RS3 unit in an emergency. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxcab Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 O Scale Western Maryland RS3, In early 70's condition. It started out as a basic 2 Rail Weaver RS3 with early centre chain drive.(early 90's vintage I think.) Altered to a phase 3 version with car body air filters, long hood access door louvres removed, dynamic brake on short hood, a scratch-built interior added, additional raised footplate on fireman's side. P & D Hobby brass side stanchions with home made handrails. The end handrails & MU stanchions were made from brass rod & channel, pilot step boards & grab irons home made. The snow plough is fabricated from plasticard. The nose grab handles & fan cover are P & D. The airlines are fine electrical single strand wire, couplers are Kadee "New Generation" type. The original Pittman motor has had a flywheel added & the chain drive has had a lower ratio gear fitted (these were already done when I bought it second hand.) I have installed a Loksound L decoder with the latest Alco 244 sound file. The decoder just fits in the short hood. A mega bass speaker is fitted in the nose under the fan housing along with a Sugar cube speaker just in front of the cab to balance the sound along the length of the loco. It sounds wonderful. Weathering is powders. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted January 31, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 31, 2018 As I always say, if you can't find a Baldwin Sharknose or FM C-Liner then an Alco is the next best thing PS. Fabulous modelling in the last couple of posts! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 I have a Loksound L in my Atlas RS3. sounds like the engine is about to fall to bits - just like the real thing!! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 The chip manufacturers have missed a trick by not putting a loud bang followed by silence and no motor response into their Alco chips... My RS11 also sounds like it's about to fall apart. Think it's also a loksound, so probably the same sounds being played. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted March 1, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2018 (edited) Although I mainly model in O (you can see some O track behind the motors), I do have a few HO Alcos: Oddly, I never took any decent photos of these, an S-1 and an HH-600 except for a truck close-up: I also have a Susquehanna RS-1 but the photo is not really good enough to post but here it is anyway: Edited March 1, 2018 by J. S. Bach 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Although I mainly model in O (you can see some O track behind the motors), O Gauge, or O Scale? (There's an important difference between the two in the USA )Would be most interested in that layout! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGR Hooper! Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Don't have and ALCo but...................designing this for someone.Not a loco that worked in North America but it was built there and then exported. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfsboy Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Here are my two latest .An atlas RS 11 and a Bachmann S4.Both DCC and fine runners. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 (edited) Yay, more ALCOs! Everyone loves ALCOs Edited March 13, 2018 by DanielB 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Yay, more ALCOs! Everyone loves ALCOs ...all except this one 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 I don’t have any Alco’s but if I did it would be this http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=623478 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted March 13, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 13, 2018 (edited) I don’t have any Alco’s but if I did it would be this http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=623478 That one used to operate i Baltimore along with 9951 that had the short hood chopped really low. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4232013 Edited March 14, 2018 by J. S. Bach 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Attractive in an ugly sort of way, but do they really count as Alcos, seeing as they are both rebuilds with EMD567 engines... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted March 13, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 13, 2018 Good doctor, I assume that is a rhetorical question? Was that one? No, I need to stop before it gets recursive... Alcos are about looks, sounds and smells. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 (edited) Attractive in an ugly sort of way, but do they really count as Alcos, seeing as they are both rebuilds with EMD567 engines...It’s like an Alco, that worksMine would have a can motor anyway... Edited March 13, 2018 by Talltim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGR Hooper! Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 ...all except this one locomotive.jpg Looks even uglier in the flesh! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted March 14, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2018 Looks even uglier in the flesh! Maybe not as ugly as this one: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3514066 Note that all four "styles" operated in and around Baltimore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted March 14, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14, 2018 (edited) O Gauge, or O Scale? (There's an important difference between the two in the USA ) Would be most interested in that layout! To me gauge is the distance between the rails and scale is the size of the train on said rails. Example: There is really no layout, just this short remnant of an old interurban yard: Note: to stay somewhat on topic, there is an Alco in the photo: The three-rail depressed-center flat was going to be two-railed but I found two already done so that is one less project on the list. The three-rail PRR hopper has found a new home with a trade for a C&I two-rail hopper. I told the wash rack crew to always remember to put the Woolite in the motor washer; seems like they forgot last night: Edited March 14, 2018 by J. S. Bach 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGR Hooper! Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcanman Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 A CP ALCO RSC-2 with buffers but definately not Canadian Pacific. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 100_2914.jpg] Interestingly the MARC writing is pretty much the same size Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted March 16, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2018 (edited) Interestingly the MARC writing is pretty much the same size I never noticed that. Note that on the O scale version, the MARC logo (the panel fell off, but the "shadow" is there) is definitely larger. Edited March 16, 2018 by J. S. Bach Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ref44 Posted March 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 18, 2018 Here are two of my O Scale Alco's; an Atlas QSI fitted RS1 and a RS3 that is currently being fitted with a Loksound V4. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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