Bob, I like it. I love seeing units in the "pre painted" stage. Really shows all the work put into the unit. I need to find someone that makes a snow plow for the front of mine. Either that or I need to build the fron and rear pilots so they have that little pointed deal under the coupler. I'm also going to have to modify the sill skirt on mine so it is accurate for he phase III GP9's.
I hope to get to work on it tonight, as well as priming my Green Bay and Western boxcar. Going to be a busy night. Michael Ostertag Green Bay, WI -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Robert Frascella <[email protected]> wrote: Michael, It's (or will be) PRR 8551. The Pennsy had 66 GP-7's but only three looked like this one with it's roof mounted air tanks. The pilot steps are from BTS. I also replaced the steps at each of the four corners of the body because the AM steps are grossly undersized. I used styrene strips that I perforated to resembel safety tread. You can find really good S-scale plans for the GP-7 in the October 1982 issue of Mainline Modeler (long out of print, but pops up from time to time on Ebay). the DPH hoods are fantastic and not that difficult to add to the GP-9 shell. Some day I'd like to do an article on this conversion. Bob Frascella wenham, MA
