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Re: Rutland Alco RS-3 #205
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:39:24 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Elroy Davis wrote:
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After working out how to build the Rutland boxcar, I decided to work on one
of the Rutland’s diesel locomotives to pull it. An RS-3 looked like a nice
challenge, and Rutland owned a few of them.
I tried to capture the most distinctive characteristics of an RS3. Mainly,
the curved body, and the blocky trucks. The front truck of this model is
brick built, and the motor is brick decorated. The trucks are a bit fragile,
and I haven’t had a chance to run my rainbow-colored test model on a track
yet, so I don’t know how much run time I’ll get out of them.
The windows needed a built solution as well. My original model used 1x2x2
windows, but I found that they don’t come in green, so the cab had to be
rebuilt.
A prototype photo is at
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2007051000383328843.jpg for
comparison.
-Elroy
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Great work, Elroy. Like Tim David mentioned, the 4x4 wedge on the nose is great
and I really like the trucks. Could you perhaps take some close-ups of them?
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Close up photos are here: (URL) They were quick snapshots, but I think most of the construction detail can be seen. -Elroy (17 years ago, 14-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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