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Do you ever remove dynamic brakes?

SL Silver LakeOGR Forum Member
I recently got a Williams Jersey Central Lines GP9 (from Trainworld for $99).Williams and Lionel GP9 and GP20s come with dynamic brake blisters that are removable nicely both companies paint the shells fully so if these are removed the shell under it is fully painted.
The JLC unit this is numbered, 1524 is actually a GP7 and has no blister and has been preserved and runs in southern NJ. So I've removed the blister. I realized I do this often researching what I have and how it look. A Lionel GP 20 is anther I've done it to. Is thi a common thing.  Have you guys done it. Tell you stories. 

My next mod iis the end of the long hood on these is flat.
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SL Silver LakeOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by Kerrigan:

       

Removed no, added one to my bashed Lionel MKT 600 which I made into a woods switcher.  Got it as a part from the Alaska switcher. Looks cool, but it's just an ole conventional locomotive.


       

Nothing wrong with conventional. I've wondered if the brake on the NW2 could be fit to the calf version.
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In the dateless past I used to convert the Athearn HO GP9(7)'s into non-dynamic versions.  It was involved and required two body shells and lots of cutting, filing, and some seam filling.  After all the work, you were still left with a model containing some pretty obvious faux paus. (Like the over-width hood.)  However converting an Athearn GP9(7) was about the only game in town until better GP7/9 models came out.

 

Model railroading really has come a long way since the "good old days".

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