Talltim Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Is this RR made up? All I can find is a shipping line (although they may have had dockside locos? ) IMG_0102 by blackjacklabrador, on Flickr What is the loco itself? It has the Alco look to it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Loco - possibly a Fairbanks- Morse HH 10-44 http://www.monon.org...2FM-18-1946.jpg or the HH12-44 ( up to 1952 the walkway curved up to the cab - after that it was steped as the photo. It may be a chop-job, as the hood looks too short The only reference I can fid to Scantic Line is the American Scantic Line - a shipping company that ran between New York and Northern European ports - possibly also had links with the Caribbean, and with Alcoa http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/americanscantic.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 http://www.railroad....p?f=126&t=75454 RE my reply above - I came across this - see the third post down and this http://www.railroad....p?f=126&t=54972 and this http://en.wikipedia....i/Scantic_River and this http://wikimapia.org/20310852/Armory-Branch-Yard I strongly suspect that the road in the photo is fictitious Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Looks like a bodge job to me - someones attempt at making an HH660? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I would agree it's likely an attempt at an Alco HH I think the road will be a made up 'home road' - somebody has picked ATLANTIC COAST LINE as the basis for the livery as that lets them re-arrange the letters for their road name - which is quite clever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Looks like a bodge job to me - someones attempt at making an HH660? I hadn't thought of the HH-660, but it very easily could be! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At6Qc0q-BmE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQhbRHhIwg&feature=related and by one of our own http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQAx-cuyNEE&feature=related Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I came across an article in an old Railmodel Journal this week on just such a conversion to an HH660 using Atlas S2 and RS3 parts. Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Articles on Bashing in mainline Modeller Jan 91 and There was an article by Stan Rydarowicz that kitbashed an Alco HH-660 from Atlas Alco S-2 and RS-3's. It was published in RailModel Journal, December 1997..... but since it is available from Atlas ....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 It is available from Atlas, but the photo in the OP has a very S2 like cab and trucks... I think its an interesting little home built job. Its in Seaboard Coastline livery isn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 The purple and silver is Atlantic Coast Line colors, I suspect the name is a freelance one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor quinn Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 It's very nicely done, but as Jack points out Atlas do an RTR one these days. TBH the end of the hood on the one in the RMJ article looked too round to me, probably because it was culled from the RS3 hood end, this one doesn't so I wonder if the builder used RS1 parts. Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Articles on Bashing in mainline Modeller Jan 91 and There was an article by Stan Rydarowicz that kitbashed an Alco HH-660 from Atlas Alco S-2 and RS-3's. It was published in RailModel Journal, December 1997..... but since it is available from Atlas ....... There was also a resin hood for a HH660 from JJL Models that was designed to fit the Proto S-1, but I think the OP's loco is probably a kitbash. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dale kritzky Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Hi Talltim. The Scantic loco is mine it is an Atlas HH660 painted for my own rr the South Hampden North Somers & Hazardville or the Scantic line the Scantic is a river that goes thru where I grew up the paint scheme is based on the ACL & yes I chopped up ACL decals for the road name. I also have RS1's in the same scheme but new locos are getting painted green & silver. The Scantic is one of those crusty branch lines where nothing ever gets cleaned & everything we own is used. The handrails in the photo look realy bad because the paint flaked off & there are no couplers in the photo either because I use Sergent Engineering couplers which I have to change if I use the loco on anyone else's rr. Dale Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted July 2, 2013 Author Share Posted July 2, 2013 Thanks for popping by with an explanation Dale. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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