Make your own

Here's the proto engine.

I used some pieces of styrene and a fan off of a GP35. they have the smaller fan between the two larger ones IIRC. Some brass screen, air tanks ends from a passenger car detail and some brass tubing. One of these days I'm going to have to finish this model.

Bernd

Thingverse

Dear MRHers,

While I always defer to Bernd's machining and fabrication skills, (Bernd, the switcher looks gorgeous! ),

I recently stumbled accross a Thingiverse (Thanks BARR!   )  STL file for such a brake blister. If One is savvy enough to find it, One is also likely savvy enough to resize it to the appropriate scale for 3D printing, as a "donor detail part", which can then be "traditional model building" style added to the target loco...

Happy Modelling, 
Aim to Improve, 
Prof Klyzlr 

and the trucks?

Are you going to add 'toolboxes' to the truck?

Just in case someone is

Just in case someone is looking for that brake blister...

it's "Thingiverse" (note the "i' in the middle.)

Thank You

Prof_Klyzlr said:

Thank you Prof_Klyzlr. I appreciate your comments.

 dennis461 said:

No. I'm not following the Canfor prototype. I thought it was a neat feature to have on an SW. I first saw these engines with the dynamic brake fans on the Coo's Bay Lumber Company in a model magazine years ago. I pair this one up with an Atheran SW1500 that I kitbashed into an SW1 non-[powered. Need to finish both engines one of these days.

Bernd 

Not quite the CanFor set up

Anthracite Railroads HIstorical Society has a adaptor to add brakes as used on a Lehigh Valley SW-8.

Look on their website: http://www.anthraciterailroads.org, store, models.

Bob

That picture brought back so many memories ...

Thank you so much for posting it. 

We used to vacation at a primitive forestry campsite at Vernon Lake near Woss Camp in the upper half of Vancouver Island where these were stationed, and watch the prototype of this model work in the woods.  It was a great place to railfan and watch logs come to the trains a truck at a time and the entire truckload was snatched up at once at the re-load and placed on the railcars.

Somewhere I have a bunch of pictures and negatives of this line, the facilities, the locomotives, the railcars and the reloads.  Sadly, no digital 35mm yet as this was in the early 1980's.  The line is gone now to sadly.  I will have to look for the pictures next time I'm at the farm.

I wondered why I bought this the other day, knowing it wasn't CP Marron and Gray, and doubting if I have the skill to paint it thus.  Now I know why!  I've always wanted a model of the Canfor locomotive.  This paint will be far easier.

The handrails are even in the right place!  (and wrong for CP which had deck mount safety rails.)

I really wish they had 3D printers when I was in my '20's.  I would have built a printer farm business and been turning out and selling N Scale bulk coal gondolas by the thousands for unit trains.

adding another question

I found the dynamic brake grid I was looking for on the Shapeways website but now I have another question. does anyone have a picture or diagram showing the layout of the air lines going into the hood mounted air tanks?

Thanks you folks!!

Piping

Type this into your search engine: Canfor SW1200 logging engines

Then click on images. It'll show you a set of images of the SW1200's. You can click on each picture and then enlarge it. You'll be able to get some idea of how the piping runs. From what I saw it looks like there was no standard of how the piping was run.

And here's a video I came across of the railroad.

Bernd

Another detail that jumps out at me…

are ground lights or truck lights.  The one on the right would be a good choice for the working model.