Western Prototype Modelers meet is in San Bernardino, CA on Sept. 18.  Anyone going?

http://www.westernprototypemodelers.org/

(I just had a glitch in my schedule, so I won't be there ;  It was fun last year, and I took the train to get there, and walked all of 150 feet from the train to the entrance.)

I found a Mogul that mechanically matches the Bachmann On30 Mogul if it were
used as a locomotive in 55n3. The On30 mogul scaled down to a "modern" Baldwin
narrow gauge mogul in 55n3 but the Baldwins didn't have 44" drivers. Brooks
built the Colorado and Northwestern a mogul with the same mechanical dimensions
with 44" drivers.

What is 55n3:

http://www.55n3.org/

Harold

Hello everyone,

Straight to the point...

I have 3 old Atlas locos (GP38-2, GP40-2) and an Athearn blue box (GP35) that I would like to upgrade the details on.  I'm mainly looking to upgrade the trucks (especially on the Athearn) and I was wondering if it was possible to do so.  The Athearn truck frame is rivetted to the truck and the Atlas frames are in 1 piece. I'd also like to change the fans. Would the fans from newer Atlas locos (GP38-2, GP40-2) be a direct fit (after removing the old ones that is)?

I have many older box cars, tank cars, etc that are set up with the old horn and hook style couplers. For sentimental reasons, I really want to keep these cars, but want to upgrade the couplers to knuckle style. Not really interested in Kaydee version, just knuckles. Problem is, I have real idea what manufacturer made some of the cars as some I have had since I was a kid in the 1960s and some I have recently bought at yardsales, etc.