Dominion Atlantic Railway

Very nice!

Great work Hunter!

Excellent

Hunter,

I have followed your blog on the build of these over the past year.  They have turned out great.  Can't wait to see what you build next.  I really like the see through effect on the nose grill.

Number boards

Switchers

A couple of great looking switchers, Hunter. I have also followed the build on your blog, and they really turned out nicely.

Tom Patterson

Blog

Thanks!

Thanks everyone.  I'm pleased with how they turned out. The P2K drive is strong.  These units easily switched out a long string of cars at the Espanola staging yard, which is on a grade. The next test will be to put these units on an ore train filled with live loads on a helix. That test is a ways off still.  We need to finish building the ore cars first

If I built more of these (and I'm not sure I will) I would rework the trucks and sideframes differently.  I'd put the bronze wiper thingy inboard of the wheels.  Oh, and I would farm out the machining of the frame to a friend with the tools and skill to do it more quickly and neatly.

This was a pretty big project, and I don't have anything this complex on the workbench right now.  I'm updating some older freight cars and focusing on weathering some exquisite ready-to-run models. 

HH

Hunter, beautiful work.  The

Hunter, beautiful work.  The photo blog was well done.  I would consider the Pointe 1 Shells a good starting point for the Central Vermont units that ran through the mid 1980's.  Regards, Neil Schofield

Great work

Great

Yeah, um, we're going to need more pictures please. Nice work!

R-T-R SW1200RS

Thomas, after all this time (this is probably the most needed loco for Canadian modellers, and is usable from the 50's to present day) someone has finally announced an R-T-R SW1200RS. The CN versions are being done too.

However with how things are going in China, I don't expect them to arrive anywhere close to their announced release date. And the prices will be dear.

If you build it, more will come (in plastic)

The True Line Trains SW1200RS has been announced for a couple years now, and Hunter was aware of that when he started this project.  He just doesn't shy away from challenging projects, and no one knew how long it would take (if ever) for the 1200s to materialize in plastic.  A few of the members at the WRMRC had obtained the Point 1 kits some time ago with the intention of getting a fleet of these units together, but most only managed to get as far as partial assembly.  Hunter and Steven, relatively new recruits to the club, decided to take on getting some of these kits completed, so now we have 3 1200s where we otherwise would have none.

The nice thing is that these Point 1 shells are absolutely beautiful, and I'm certain these units will look just as good as (if not better than) any plastic models of these units to be produced.

More photos on the way

Rico, I've been getting some private messages requesting more photos of these, but I don't have a layout or even a diorama to stage them on.  I'll take my camera to the club on Wednesday and shoot a few more.

Re: Number boards

Juneco used to put out a SW1200rs kit with those number boards. But I don't think they are around anymore. Maybe a flee market/model railway meet you can find? 

Good job Hunter

Very nice. CP used to run them back to back while CN ran them nose to nose. I modeled a CN SW1200rs over 20 Years ago using the Juneco kit. 

Juneco Number Boards

I still have the model I built up from a Juneco kit.  There's a photo of it on my blog in the first post under CP SW1200RS.  I should take a new photo of one of these next to the Juneco kit.  The difference is stark. 

Your first post, and an earlier one asked about the number boards.  You can probably find that Juneco kit at flea market, but the parts in that kit were intended to fit onto the Athearn BB switcher, which is incorrectly proportioned in virtually every possible way.  Those parts won't likely fit anything else.  I discovered another option a the (not so local) LHS on Saturday: Minatures By Eric has some SW1200RS parts, including number boards.  I guess the idea is that one could build one up from a P2K SW1200.  The number boards would be correct, and you could buy the CN style winter hatch thing.  The steps and the grill would still be wrong, and I think those would have to be scratch built. The Point 1 resin kit is the best option for the SW1200RS.  It's not an easy build, but my blog posts are pretty much step-by-step.

By request... another photo

Here's another shot of 8152 from last week's photo session.