J. Motts posted:That is an outstanding job on the GS-6, I love it. The SP is my favorite road, my dad worked for them when I little, I have a number of Roundhouse shots that my dad took, he was also a professional photographer and working for the SP made it really easy for him to go in and take all the pictures he wanted. He also had all the Time Tables so he knew all the movements of all the trains, I forgot to mention his SP job was a signal maintainer which meant he had his own speeder. Unfortunately, out of all the negatives I have been able to find (most have been 4 X 5 B&W) I haven't been able to come across any of him on his little speeder but I'm sure they are there somewhere in my mom's house. The one's I do have, he gave them to me and told me to hang on to them. My dad loved the SP and so do I, so your conversion really gets my attention. I loved your SF conversion or restoration but not as much as I did this one. Great work, I hope you do more SP locomotives in the future. Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks. SP is my 2nd favorite road (ATSF being first) so I'm a little more partial to my 3460 class Hudson with the big Santa Fe heralds. Just looks so neat to me.
I really like the way this GS6 came out. I've also got a Premier Daylight painted GS4. So if I do another SP GS project it would probably be a late 40s GS4 with the side skirts removed and a Daylight painted cab and tender. Then I'll have all 3 GS class paint schemes.
This black GS6 is begging me to assemble a SP mail train for it to pull.
