I've had some acquaintance with the BLW switchers in O scale: bought a Car
Works VO-1000 when they were first imported (which I still have),
picked up a CW DS-4-4-1000 at a later point at a good price, resold it, as it
just wasn't as distinctive/interesting as the VO-1000, and seem to
have ended up with about five of the Weaver VO-1000's (at least two, perhaps
three too many, but the prices were so good I couldn't pass
them up). This last March I found a Yoder brass S-12 at a price I couldn't
resist; otherwise had had no plans to acquire one.
As you suggest, trying to rework an S-12 into an earlier model is almost as
much work as scratchbuilding--lots of detail differences, some
rather major.
Perhaps the next Smoky Mountain locomotive project could be a VO-1000 if there
is the interest. Since I got interested in S scale, I have
wondered why AM did the S-12 instead of one of the earlier types, since AF had
a sort-of S-12.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
>
> > If you go for the Baldswin DS 4-4-1000, I'd like to know how you do it.
>
> Me too. :-)
>
> My thinking was to add falsies to the front/rear corners, make a template
> for the small cab windows above the hood, scribe, then drill/file out.
> Clear styrene or other clear plastic would be cut and filed to press fit
> inside the new opening. The unwanted louvres on the hood side doors would
> be chiseled off and sanded smooth. The unwanted doors beneath the cab sides
> likewise. I wasn't going to bother with the nose grill. I've done all of
> this and more (including dropping a Kato motor/drive system into it) to have
> a Frisco DS-4-4-1000 in HO. Started with the Athearn S-12. Really, I need
> to put down this keyboard and walk away... I'm talking myself into
> attempting this again. Bad boy Tom, bad.
>
> > I contemplated the same Baldwin model for a CGW DS 4-4-1000.
> > I never purchased one because the trucks on the AM model S12
> > are not the correct switcher trucks.
>
> There's the SHS option for those that are very fastidious modelers and have
> the capability to mill some metal, then there's the "modify and make do"
> method until something better comes along. I'm am fast approaching the
> conclusion that IF I wait until it's all perfect in the S scale world... I
> will be pushing up daisies.
>
> Andre Ming
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