Reply to "Kitbashed Postwar Locomotives"

Choo Choo CharlieOGR Forum Member

I do not know if this qualifies as kit-bashing a locomotive but it was fun and now much more beautiful and better operating on ac.

A cheap Lionel General 4-4-0, 8005 dc powered set with coal tender and Lionel 9541 Santa Fe Railway Agency Express Passenger car was purchased at a train show. I added a full wave rectifier and changed the Lionel 8005 to ac operation although in one direction. A selector switch was added for manual reversal. The engine was dressed up with gold stripping, a lighted head light and painting all red engine black for the boiler and stack.

A fuzzy picture of Lionel 8005 before painting and dressing up!

The Lionel 8005 was painted, along with the red and silver front wheels and painted domes. The body and stack were painted Black. Gold stripping was added to dress up. Much more beautiful !

The post above came from my OGR forum topic on how I built my layout below:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...ra-027-layout?page=5

Charlie

7/8/185:20 PM

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