I finally finished my thing-a-week locomotive! Here is CATS #12, a small 'modernish' electric locomotive. She is based off of an IHC, HO gauge GE 50-ton centercab chassis. As shown in other blog posts I have made, the cab is scratch-made from styrene, pantograph came from an IHC GG1 bought LONG ago, painted by hand. YES, I know I need to redo the weathering on the chassis. You don't realize how heavy the weathering is and how...coarse it is until you photograph the model.

Background-wise, #12 is one of two such motors (#11 and #12) picked up secondhand but in good shape by the new manager of the CATS (Cassaberry Area Traction System or Cassaberry, Aberfelinya and Tabitha's Stair Ry.). They rate out to about a 16-ton electric motor, and were bought in part to alleviate a motive power shortage, and in part to allow management to pull some of the older freight motors off the line for a badly-needed overhaul.

- Brian Panthera (pflarrian1@yahoo.com)