He more wheels and trucks on it. That would fit in with first Gas Turbine that U. P. had that did not last long at all U,P ,had it for 2 years then some other railroad got it went to crap;
Looks really cool. Love your show. Im an old school h.o. train nut and you have helped me repair so many of my locomotives. Thank you keep up the great work
After 40 plus years in the hobby I gotta say that my friend is a first but love it ,love your imagination as well to come up with such a beast. And it runs very well to boot . Awesome video SMT .
That is the longest, craziest thing I have ever seen. But I have to say I am not surprised to see it run. It was touched with the magic touch of Harrison. 😊 Keep it up Harrison. It is all about the fun.. 💕😊💕🇺🇸
Once again, thank you Harrison. The practical use of an X-acto blade attached to a soldering iron complemented the entertainment value of the project: likewise, the introduction of the new super gorilla glue: definitely things I am going to try.
I bow to you master. This is awesome. I’m not surprised you pulled it off. Light and everything. Quality entertainment. I watched from start by finish. You do realize that you now have to build an even longer locomotive?
There was a prototype for this type of a concept. Although much shorter. Built by Baldwin for the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey. Only six Jersey Janus' were ever constructed. All for the Jersey Central exclusively. The model was the Baldwin DR 6 -4 - 2000 double-ender. It attained the nickname of " Babyface " for the appearance of the cabs at both ends, along with several other Baldwin diesel models with the single cab. Double-end designs are used in passenger service where turning the equipment is not possible.
The reason they don't line up is there are two different Tyco F-unit body shells. The first one was tooled up around 1961 and I've mentioned before how it's a clone of Athearn with a few detail differences. In the early 1970s it was starting to have wear issues showing around the side grille at the rear on one side of the body. Tyco's answer was to create a new tool and one of the differences is the thicker, more squared off side steps. What is strange is when Mantua bought back most of the line in 1977 or so, they got the original F-unit tooling and were able to run it no problem. I don't know if they repaired it, remade it, or what. The second body shell tooling kind of vanishes when the rest of the line was sold to IHC, I don't know they ever used it. That thing would be fun on a club layout at train shows, if you can make it handle some level of curves. Probably the way to go would have been to cut that B in the middle, attach it to each A unit, and then put a diaphragm in there so it can bend. But those things are cheap, you can always make another one. Or maybe do one using Shark bodies to go with it.
I suspect they might be from different eras since the drives were different as well. They overall don't look too out of place together however slight differences can be spotted. Thanks for sharing you're knowledge on this subject.
Hersheypark started with the sooperdooperLooper... Harrison continues the legacy with the superduperSuperChief! Set up an oval track on the deck outside and run it around a few circuits. Shouldn't have any problems without buildings impeding its momentum. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍
This inspired me to make a double ended Santa Fe Super Chief! Because I have multiple Santa Fe E and F units I have no idea what to do with...until now!
Very nice!!! Very creative! Keep up the good work on your videos. I love watching you work to restore these broken units and make them run like new again.
That was fun but most people missed the point by saying you could articulate it and it would do the curves……. That’s how it started out.. ABA. The Santa Fe dragster, runs great going straight, don’t try to turn. Lol.
I would personally recommend the "Micro Precise" version of the glue with the narrow nozzle and the gel type glue. It's really nice for precision applications where you don't want the glue to run.
Very imaginative. Would have benefited with more trucks underneath with the wood ballast in smaller sections between the trucks. That's a long unsupported area. Ran well like everything you repair.. Since your "shop" built it, a repaint for SMT Mainline would be cool. I bought an E60 single cab unit off EBay that came without pantographs, so as the story goes, the Chippewa Northern found the unit in a scrap yard with the electric motors stripped, bought the unit, and the guys at the Chippewa Northern shop installed a diesel prime mover with two 48" fans and painted for the Chippewa Northern.
@@Petemonster62 that is the advantage of a freelance line. My Chippewa Northern is a freelance that runs from Sioux Saint Marie Ontario across the UP,, Northern Wisconsin,, through Duluth and across Minnesota into the Dakotas ending in Winnipeg. It is a subsidiary have Canadian national, and connects with Chicago Northwestern, and the Union Pacific. The Chippewa Northern runs both passenger and Freight. Being freelance that also allows me to run Chicago and Northwestern as if it was still active currently.
@@robertcrundwell2782 - That sounds like an interesting concept; a " freelanced " railroad takes a lot of ingenuity to come up with a herald & paint scheme, history, and how it affected the locales it runs through!
@@Petemonster62 on my main passenger train all the cars are named after Chippewa/Ojibway Indian Chiefs. Because it is a subsidiary of Canadian national, I also used the noodle style print.
Winner,Winner...Chicken dinner!!!Great job Harrison.Love your videos.You got me interested in doing the same thing.Train layout,I mean.Always wanted one when I was younger.Thanks,Hugues.
FF21DX... built by EMD after it's design shop went on a retreat and found themselves in a Shoshone sweat lodge eating peyote buds and singing Iron Butterfly's "Innagaddadavida" in a nearby karaoke bar, where, in a hallucinogen induced state, came up with Santa Fe's three engine answer to the Union Pacific's two engine based DD40X.
Wow! Interesting project! Reminds me of the S. Berliner website pictures of some rather remarkable fantasy engines. Love the Exacto hot knife - very clever!
I think it's a pretty cool bird. When you think about it, there's been several oddball experimental locomotives in history, so I think this could fit right in. You could even come up with your own fictitious history about how Santa Fe developed it in an attempt to harness more power out of one locomotive, sort of like how the farm tractor industry did back in the 70's.
Hello, this just a general question ,I have a Rivarossi 4-6-4 with no tender, is the tender required to make the locomotive go. Applying power to the engine which is in the cab does make it go.
I remember I used to make the exact same thing in gmod train build back in 2016, and it had the exact same turning problem. Have you tried turning collisions off lol. In all seriousness, this was a really interesting video. Thanks for bringing me down memory lane.
🎵 I got it One piece at a time And it didn't cost me a dime You'll know it's me when I come thru your town I'm gonna ride around in style Gonna drive ev'rybody wild 'Cause I'll have the only one there is around! 🎵 - Johnny Cash
Ok, I've gotta say, that is freaking creative and will make one heck of a conversation piece. You may have to make a ceiling loop to be able to run that bad boy on. Nicely done 😁👍
That was really cool!! And man it ran really good you should put a track outside or on the floor with nothing around so you could run it you should call it the Santa Fe Frankenstein until your next video stay safe and have a good day 👍👍
It's Kinda of interesting what you can do with scrap parts. However, I would make a B unit with a Power Trucks and it could easily handle the curved track!!!! It's ridiculous too long for your Layout, but it's comical building something like that!!!!!😂🤣 Lol You Have a Great skills on Repairing and Building HO Scale Train Locomotives. 🚂🚂🚆Thank You for Sharing this with me!
Great work! If this were a real loco it would be quite a sight to watch. With that wheel configuration I bet they would've had bad frame cracking issues!
I remember the driver at a museum explaining that the window cranks in an F-unit were the same as in a GM car of the same era. It was apparently a great way to cut costs down.
SMT - That is a clever idea to mount an Xacto knife blade on a soldering iron! A modeler could cut parts from a locomotive body shell to use for adding details to the inside of a roundhouse! It looks like you used the blade chuck assembly from a knife handle on that tool.
Love it😎 Looks like an extreme stretched version of the Victorian Railways B class locomotive. To my knowledge that was the only loco to have a "bulldog" cab at each end.
The track should be duper-super, lol, mega wide radius, at least 4 foot, i.e. 48"inches. Also, do you watch the Sci fi show, "SNOW PIERCER", and their Giant train that travels around the frozen world? Also, Snowpiercer has the 10 foot guage track. And nuclear powered. Kooool!!!!! 11.11.21,a.d.
Wait wait wait you made a kit bashed locomotive which has never been in production . thats just wow Amazing im in shock how it looks and runs . As Steven drivick said i can see that happening. " Harrison are you ok?" -Harrison " yeah mum im good im just kitbashing my locomotives." With the evil laugh behind it and then when it runs they hear loudly sounding like Dr Frankenstein . " Its Alive! Its Alive! Serenity ! It's alive! Their reaction upstairs is the total shock gasp and your dad putting hand on head saying " I don't know about that boy i tell ya." Lol. GOOD JOB! I think it will take a 32 or 38 radius curve to make it look great or higher not sure. yours are like 22 inch i think for that amount over overhang but love it!
That is awesome!! If you did just the A units it would probably work on the curves. It would look like some sort of GG1. That idea could be applied to rolling stock as well. All model RRs have a box of junk that could kit-bashed. Well done!
When you have brakes in the plastic and you have to put them back together and gluing them and squeezing them tight to allow them to dry does not give you the kind of seam you want you can use model putty or body filler to fill in the cracks and then after it's dry you'll have to sand it smooth and then paint it that way it is not noticeable.
Man you enjoy the part of model railroading I avoid to the point at a fault. I have several engines that need work on, I’m talking like probably 2 dozen that just need cleaning or diy and maybe some detail fixes and they’d be perfect. Mostly dc power some athearn genesis Dcc ready sd70-sd75’s which I really want to have fixed, a couple steamers, you get the jist. You’d have footage for a couple months if you worked and fixed them all!
My layouts gonna only have some regular dcc locos but 90% will be sound as well so a lot of the units I’m talking about were a huge buy I made a few years back thinking I’d fix them up and sell or use them and I was given plenty of tools and parts to fix them up, it’s just notttt my thing. Love scenery, absolutely obsessed on operations, but this stuff? I’d gives me extreme anger lol
"What are you doing down there with your trains?"
SMT Mainline: "Nothing...just a little kitbashing. (Evil Laugh)
That’s a priceless comment lol
@@SMTMainline hi
He more wheels and trucks on it. That would fit in with first Gas Turbine that U. P. had that did not last long at all U,P ,had it for 2 years then some other railroad got it went to crap;
Lol
i die inside every time i watch hes "kitbash" work its like watching 10 y/o with no sull doing some thing is just a thing
"Mooooom, can we have Baldwin Centipede?"
"No, we have Baldwin Centipede at home."
Baldwin Centipede at home:
Yes… this made me lol
That f21 locomotive looks so good, those engines were true beauty’s and I wish I could’ve seen one when they were still around
GMD FDP19AX
3 × F7 = F21
SMT Mainline Slaps the F unit on the bench: Well folks
Three of them
DD40X moment
Lol yup
It seems your customs always get weirder and weirder but they're always fun to watch, great video
I think they have.
Looks really cool. Love your show. Im an old school h.o. train nut and you have helped me repair so many of my locomotives. Thank you keep up the great work
Summary: Harrison takes broken F7s
Harrison makes long boi F7
Absolutely!
@@SMTMainline hi
B A S E D
After 40 plus years in the hobby I gotta say that my friend is a first but love it ,love your imagination as well to come up with such a beast. And it runs very well to boot . Awesome video SMT .
Thank you so kindly!
That is the longest, craziest thing I have ever seen. But I have to say I am not surprised to see it run. It was touched with the magic touch of Harrison. 😊 Keep it up Harrison. It is all about the fun.. 💕😊💕🇺🇸
That's what I like about your projects Harrison. Not taking it too seriously rather just having a bit of fun.
F units: lay on the table destroyed
SMT Mainline: Let's see what we can do with these!
F units: FUUUUSION HA!
That’s the spirit!
YOU KNOW IT MAKES A GOOD SHOW PIECE..AND IT RUNS..NICE JOB
Once again, thank you Harrison. The practical use of an X-acto blade attached to a soldering iron complemented the entertainment value of the project: likewise, the introduction of the new super gorilla glue: definitely things I am going to try.
I bow to you master. This is awesome. I’m not surprised you pulled it off. Light and everything. Quality entertainment. I watched from start by finish. You do realize that you now have to build an even longer locomotive?
Thank you so kindly! I guess the only limit is how many B-unit shells I can acquire.
There was a prototype for this type of a concept. Although much shorter. Built by Baldwin for the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey. Only six Jersey Janus' were ever constructed. All for the Jersey Central exclusively. The model was the Baldwin DR 6 -4 - 2000 double-ender. It attained the nickname of " Babyface " for the appearance of the cabs at both ends, along with several other Baldwin diesel models with the single cab. Double-end designs are used in passenger service where turning the equipment is not possible.
I’m surprised to hear that. Interesting history.
@@SMTMainline Oh yeah, DEFINITELY shorter. Figure about the size of an ALCo PA
are ya sure it wasn't j. anus?
@@tommurphy4307 Your reply showed up in my notifications but UA-cam censored it.
SMT....the evil mad engineer from another reality. Loving it!
looks so cool, it doesn't have to be too serious all the time, they are toys after all.
I was looking at the thumbnail just assuming it was a A-B-A set but… well.. it turns out you made an A-B-A unit
It still kinda just looks like an A-B-A set from the front.
What a creative way to recycle trash. If anything it is a great shelf locomotive to display. Lol. Great job.
The reason they don't line up is there are two different Tyco F-unit body shells. The first one was tooled up around 1961 and I've mentioned before how it's a clone of Athearn with a few detail differences.
In the early 1970s it was starting to have wear issues showing around the side grille at the rear on one side of the body. Tyco's answer was to create a new tool and one of the differences is the thicker, more squared off side steps.
What is strange is when Mantua bought back most of the line in 1977 or so, they got the original F-unit tooling and were able to run it no problem. I don't know if they repaired it, remade it, or what. The second body shell tooling kind of vanishes when the rest of the line was sold to IHC, I don't know they ever used it.
That thing would be fun on a club layout at train shows, if you can make it handle some level of curves. Probably the way to go would have been to cut that B in the middle, attach it to each A unit, and then put a diaphragm in there so it can bend. But those things are cheap, you can always make another one. Or maybe do one using Shark bodies to go with it.
I suspect they might be from different eras since the drives were different as well. They overall don't look too out of place together however slight differences can be spotted. Thanks for sharing you're knowledge on this subject.
Wow! That's actually pretty cool!
Hersheypark started with the sooperdooperLooper... Harrison continues the legacy with the superduperSuperChief!
Set up an oval track on the deck outside and run it around a few circuits. Shouldn't have any problems without buildings impeding its momentum.
Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍
"What ya got in that thing?"
"Oh just yer average V150."
I like how you always stay optimistic
Thanks, I try.
" IT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE ! ! " Dr. SMT mainline.
Wow! That was really cool. I love the creativity. Excellent job. Loved it.
This inspired me to make a double ended Santa Fe Super Chief! Because I have multiple Santa Fe E and F units I have no idea what to do with...until now!
Very nice!!! Very creative! Keep up the good work on your videos. I love watching you work to restore these broken units and make them run like new again.
Definitely a wild use of some extra parts!
That was fun but most people missed the point by saying you could articulate it and it would do the curves……. That’s how it started out.. ABA. The Santa Fe dragster, runs great going straight, don’t try to turn. Lol.
Makes an interesting dust collector sitting on the shelf.
:/
the first engine is what moves it, the second and third are what hide the flip out cannon
Hol' up,, WHAT!
I would personally recommend the "Micro Precise" version of the glue with the narrow nozzle and the gel type glue. It's really nice for precision applications where you don't want the glue to run.
Sounds like a wise plan.
the glue runs give her character...
The repair was seamless but the gluing was kinda leaky u could say
You've heard of the Super Chief, now get ready for the Mega Chief
That's the concept :)
@@SMTMainlineultra cheif
Very imaginative. Would have benefited with more trucks underneath with the wood ballast in smaller sections between the trucks. That's a long unsupported area. Ran well like everything you repair.. Since your "shop" built it, a repaint for SMT Mainline would be cool. I bought an E60 single cab unit off EBay that came without pantographs, so as the story goes, the Chippewa Northern found the unit in a scrap yard with the electric motors stripped, bought the unit, and the guys at the Chippewa Northern shop installed a diesel prime mover with two 48" fans and painted for the Chippewa Northern.
Robert - SMT could do a similar scenario of " modeler's license " with his Acela locomotive, since its pantograph was damaged in the crash.
@@Petemonster62 that is the advantage of a freelance line. My Chippewa Northern is a freelance that runs from Sioux Saint Marie Ontario across the UP,, Northern Wisconsin,, through Duluth and across Minnesota into the Dakotas ending in Winnipeg. It is a subsidiary have Canadian national, and connects with Chicago Northwestern, and the Union Pacific. The Chippewa Northern runs both passenger and Freight. Being freelance that also allows me to run Chicago and Northwestern as if it was still active currently.
@@robertcrundwell2782 - That sounds like an interesting concept; a " freelanced " railroad takes a lot of ingenuity to come up with a herald & paint scheme, history, and how it affected the locales it runs through!
@@Petemonster62 BTW like your handle. Made this old man laugh.
@@Petemonster62 on my main passenger train all the cars are named after Chippewa/Ojibway Indian Chiefs. Because it is a subsidiary of Canadian national, I also used the noodle style print.
Winner,Winner...Chicken dinner!!!Great job Harrison.Love your videos.You got me interested in doing the same thing.Train layout,I mean.Always wanted one when I was younger.Thanks,Hugues.
That's the craziest train I've ever seen! I love it. It made me laugh when it actually ran. Nice job.
FF21DX... built by EMD after it's design shop went on a retreat and found themselves in a Shoshone sweat lodge eating peyote buds and singing Iron Butterfly's "Innagaddadavida" in a nearby karaoke bar, where, in a hallucinogen induced state, came up with Santa Fe's three engine answer to the Union Pacific's two engine based DD40X.
Hey man, you said what you were going to do and you did it. Sounds like a win to me.
Hitting a target is still hitting a target even if the target is set low.
Wow! Interesting project! Reminds me of the S. Berliner website pictures of some rather remarkable fantasy engines. Love the Exacto hot knife - very clever!
"Did you feel that?" - Guy working at Ace Super Market.
They would have some stories from working there.
This was super funny to watch thanks for the laughs you’re a consummate entertainer my friend
You should give it some 3 axle trucks on both ends and a couple 2 axle trucks in the middle, then it would probably handle the curves
It would probably fit the size of the loco a little better too. :)
Reminds me of when I made a tank out of a tender on an RSO 0-4-0 chassis
I think it's a pretty cool bird. When you think about it, there's been several oddball experimental locomotives in history, so I think this could fit right in. You could even come up with your own fictitious history about how Santa Fe developed it in an attempt to harness more power out of one locomotive, sort of like how the farm tractor industry did back in the 70's.
Cool Frankenmotive build i quite like it, i think that the on F unit and the B unit just together would have been nice also. thanks
A A-B or A-A locomotive would be nice, it could probably also handle 22" curves since it would be no longer than a DD40Ax.
ITS PERFECT!!!!
a new locomotive for the market!!
THE F21!!!!!
Haha! This looks awesome! Awesome build there, Harrison!
Thanks
"It was time for thomas to leave, he had seen enough"
Until today I did not know I needed this¡¡.
Paint it yellow with UP decals and confuse many a people. Say it was a EMD prototype at UP's request.
This build is amazing! I think building more crazy locomotives and maybe even train cars like this would make up for some great videos! Keep it up!
Absolutely!
What a joy for the children to watch a MD of toy trains brings life back through electrical rails it's alive it's alive!
The F7 that has the broken side looks like the one from that one head on train collision
I can't believe how trashed the B-unit became.
Very nice work and a great imagination. Great channel !!!
Thanks
only a few seconds in and i’m already excited
It's something new
same
@@SMTMainline the miles per gallon on this thing has got to be incredible!
This is amazing, SMT! And I've never seen an Xacto knife and soldering iron used together like that.
It's a strange tool however it's come in handy over the years with various projects.
i made a plastic cutter for my weller soldering pistol- its wonderfully destructive and aromatic...
I love the Santa Fe a f units
Hello, this just a general question ,I have a Rivarossi 4-6-4 with no tender, is the tender required to make the locomotive go. Applying power to the engine which is in the cab does make it go.
The big boy: *Finally an opponent worth my time*
It's about time
U dare challenge me Santa Fe!
I remember I used to make the exact same thing in gmod train build back in 2016, and it had the exact same turning problem. Have you tried turning collisions off lol.
In all seriousness, this was a really interesting video. Thanks for bringing me down memory lane.
Frankie is now your biggest beast!!!
🎵 I got it
One piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come thru your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
Gonna drive ev'rybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around! 🎵
- Johnny Cash
Ok, I've gotta say, that is freaking creative and will make one heck of a conversation piece. You may have to make a ceiling loop to be able to run that bad boy on. Nicely done 😁👍
That was an interesting project. Very cool.
You are a very very creative fellow
Harrison's Santa Fe Centi-Chief woo woot !
Kit bashing!!!!!
Best way to reuse old stuff that's broken or not working :)
Together with the Super Chief video of Central Los Andes, this is the coolest one I've seen on YT involving the great Santa Fe convoy in h0 scale.
So, that's 150 scale feet of Santa Fe Superchief goodness!...... 50 feet more than the DDA40X..... that's saying something!
That was really cool!! And man it ran really good you should put a track outside or on the floor with nothing around so you could run it you should call it the Santa Fe Frankenstein until your next video stay safe and have a good day 👍👍
Hey...you could always sell that beast as a "one of a kind" kitbash!!!! Still....nicely done, Harrison!!!
Maybe so. I don't think people should pay much for it though... Haha
It's Kinda of interesting what you can do with scrap parts. However, I would make a B unit with a Power Trucks and it could easily handle the curved track!!!! It's ridiculous too long for your Layout, but it's comical building something like that!!!!!😂🤣 Lol
You Have a Great skills on Repairing and Building HO Scale Train Locomotives. 🚂🚂🚆Thank You for Sharing this with me!
Great work! If this were a real loco it would be quite a sight to watch. With that wheel configuration I bet they would've had bad frame cracking issues!
I would have made it go back and forth like a trolley car on straight track at the back of your layout . Like the concept nice conversation piece .
That’s just about the most far out locomotive I have ever seen!
Although not a Cadillac I believe that EMD put Caddy windshields in them F units. Cool post🚂🇨🇦
I remember the driver at a museum explaining that the window cranks in an F-unit were the same as in a GM car of the same era. It was apparently a great way to cut costs down.
SMT - That is a clever idea to mount an Xacto knife blade on a soldering iron! A modeler could cut parts from a locomotive body shell to use for adding details to the inside of a roundhouse! It looks like you used the blade chuck assembly from a knife handle on that tool.
Love it😎
Looks like an extreme stretched version of the Victorian Railways B class locomotive. To my knowledge that was the only loco to have a "bulldog" cab at each end.
New idea take a big Boy and turn it into a cab forward
I would unironically consider kitbashing a double-ended F unit.
Hey cool. This is nostalgic for me. I still have my father's all-metal Warbonnet EMD F7 consist from Märklin from the 1950's. ☺️
🤣🤣🤣 hotness!!! The Santa Fe Super Duper El Capichief!!!
Very creative, Harrison, but, you won’t be winning any friends among the strict prototype crowd. I love it. Keep doing your own thing.
I wouldn't think so although I suspect most of them don't like my channel anyway. To each their own.
👍 Improvise, adapt, overcome! Hu-Aw!!
The track should be duper-super, lol, mega wide radius, at least 4 foot, i.e. 48"inches. Also, do you watch the Sci fi show, "SNOW PIERCER", and their Giant train that travels around the frozen world? Also, Snowpiercer has the 10 foot guage track. And nuclear powered. Kooool!!!!! 11.11.21,a.d.
Wait wait wait you made a kit bashed locomotive which has never been in production . thats just wow Amazing im in shock how it looks and runs . As Steven drivick said i can see that happening. " Harrison are you ok?" -Harrison " yeah mum im good im just kitbashing my locomotives." With the evil laugh behind it and then when it runs they hear loudly sounding like Dr Frankenstein . " Its Alive! Its Alive! Serenity ! It's alive! Their reaction upstairs is the total shock gasp and your dad putting hand on head saying " I don't know about that boy i tell ya." Lol. GOOD JOB! I think it will take a 32 or 38 radius curve to make it look great or higher not sure. yours are like 22 inch i think for that amount over overhang but love it!
Lol thanks Matt
@@SMTMainline your welcome. Just amazed the heck out of me seeing that build.
HO kitbashed engine.
Love it
Thanks
Matching the silver world be difficult for most but if you can, a little Bondo body filler and paint and you can fix a lot of the damage
Gap filling CA can be used as a liquid filler.
It's almost Christmas, y'all know what that means
FF21DX súper engine.
Good job in the rebuild of the Santa Fe locomotive.
Desrailed in the curves.
That is awesome!! If you did just the A units it would probably work on the curves. It would look like some sort of GG1. That idea could be applied to rolling stock as well. All model RRs have a box of junk that could kit-bashed. Well done!
When you have brakes in the plastic and you have to put them back together and gluing them and squeezing them tight to allow them to dry does not give you the kind of seam you want you can use model putty or body filler to fill in the cracks and then after it's dry you'll have to sand it smooth and then paint it that way it is not noticeable.
LOVE IT. So crazy it's cool. To bad it can't do the corners.
How far can that thing go with that big of a fuel tank, and how much does it hold? Looks very nice!
Man you enjoy the part of model railroading I avoid to the point at a fault. I have several engines that need work on, I’m talking like probably 2 dozen that just need cleaning or diy and maybe some detail fixes and they’d be perfect. Mostly dc power some athearn genesis Dcc ready sd70-sd75’s which I really want to have fixed, a couple steamers, you get the jist. You’d have footage for a couple months if you worked and fixed them all!
My layouts gonna only have some regular dcc locos but 90% will be sound as well so a lot of the units I’m talking about were a huge buy I made a few years back thinking I’d fix them up and sell or use them and I was given plenty of tools and parts to fix them up, it’s just notttt my thing. Love scenery, absolutely obsessed on operations, but this stuff? I’d gives me extreme anger lol
One more comment haha, if ya ever wanted the project I’d be down for every 3 you could keep a fourth unit,
It looks like an almost Art Deco realization of a bullet train. We will call it.. The Mega Chief!
That's a unique perspective
Next video: I glued 15 steam engines together to make a 4 - 100 - 2 locomotive
This scared me yet inspired me. I might make one soon.
Awesome