Hi James; David Heine already mentioned using two 25 ton GE kits to build this, possibly using a drive from the 50 ton switcher?
http://www.railmasterhobbies.com/images%20Sn3/Endcab.jpg The museum where I volunteer on Sundays has both a 45 ton and 25 ton GE switcher. While I can't say I'd draw up full plans for you, I can offer to photograph or measure specific details. Pieter E. Roos --- On Fri, 5/11/12, empirebuilderjjhill <[email protected]> wrote: > Jace, > > My "fixation" with this 45 tonner comes from the fact that > it is the only true locomotive to operate in the Valdez Yard > and the one piece of operational motive power I thought I > might have a chance of making. > > There was a wheel loader equipped with a coupler that worked > in the yard and I intend to produce this by modifying an > Ertl 950E, but this could only be powered by the 0-5-0 > hand. > > The other two units that worked in the Valdez Yard were a > Whiting Trackmobile and a CF-55-AF Aircraft Tug, and I don't > think that I'll be able to make either of these simply > because, to my knowledge, no similar vehicles exist in `S'. > > That leaves the GE 45 ton. > > I'd heard that it is possible to create some SN3 locomotives > by modifying certain standard gauge HO engines. I was > hoping that the reverse might be true and that I might be > able to create a standard gauge `S' 45 tonner by modifying a > ON30 45 tonner. Unfortunately, this idea wasn't a very > good one… > > Here are the pictures of both the GE 45 ton and the other > motive power the operated in Valdez. > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/1380536279/pic/list > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/1946337466/pic/list?mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc > > ~JJ~ > James ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
