Wow--why doesn't it surprise me to see such a beautiful locomotive emerge from
the shop of Bob Hogan, the maestro of Madison.
Fred Tolhurst
Maryville, TN (proud owner of nine Bob Hogan-built S scale streamlined
passenger cars in Southern Railway)
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From: Robert_Hogan <[email protected]>
To: S-Scale <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 4:10 pm
Subject: {S-Scale List} Modified AM Pacific follow up [6 Attachments]
[Attachment(s) from Robert_Hogan included below]
Per Bill Winan's request, I have attached several photos of the SP
P-10 Pacific that I created from the American Models SR Pacific. As
you can see in the construction photos, I took the cast boiler all the
way down to a smooth shell and then added back all of the appropriate
details. The most difficult part was probably fabricating the brass
running boards and piping. The tender is a South Wind Models 5
section (extra large) SP Vandy with the AM 6 wheel trucks added
because of the AM split driver axle electrical pick up system. The
castings are a mixture of P-B-L, Precision, SSL&S, Cal-Scale and River
Raisin.
The engine has continued to "mature" over the years and now has the
proper River Raisin brass SP cab, pressed pilot, large sand dome and
stack. The "how to" story on this conversion was in the S Gaugian ten
years back or so, but I'll be happy to assist anyone wanting
information to modify their AM Pacific. It's a great operating engine
(I added LOTS of weight to compensate for removing the "chuff") and it
features P-B-L sound/lights. FYI...Ron Bashista didn't believe it was
one of "his" models until he saw the construction photos. I'd
encourage anyone to use their imagination to modify this really nice
model. There are many degrees of change possible and it only takes a
few items to transform this into a totally different locomotive.
As also mentioned, Roger also did an outstanding, less radical
conversion of the AM Pacific and perhaps he could post those photos as
well. It is a really nice model and I believe it also won a first at
a NASG Convention.
Have fun!
Bob Hogan
