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Just google "Milwaukee Road GP9" and click on "Images" - there's a gazillion of them. In fact, as far as I know that's the only color scheme the Milwaukee ever used on a GP9. Lionel's rendition is off, but it's in the ballpark by postwar Lionel standards. 
 
Originally Posted by Dtrainmaster:
Originally Posted by Southwest Hiawatha:
The Milwaukee Road didn't actually have GP7's - but it had almost-identical GP9's.

Do you have a photo reference of any black and orange MILW GP9 ?

 

Dave

 

Originally Posted by brwebster:

Still searching for a Williams chassis to get the fantasy finished.  I can barely squeeze the plastic shell onto my MTH running gear for this shot.

 

Bruce

That is AWESOME and I don't care that it's a total fantasy scheme.

 

(I've tried to find the MTH DDA40X in Warbonnet livery but no luck.)

 

P.S. Did you do the paint yourself? Whoever did hat's off to them.

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I've said that a Lionel or a Bachmann/Williams E-33 would look fantastic in Milwaukee Road colors and I'm not sorry that Bachmann-Williams has produced an Amtrak EP-5. I still wonder what an E-33 or an E-44 in Great Northern Big Sky Blue colors would look like. They'd all look better than real-life Penn Central black!

Originally Posted by david1:
Originally Posted by Passenger Train Collector:

I am currently working on a fantasy train project. Something very unusual and should nicely compliment an upcoming new engine. This project is way "out of the box thinking".

A chrome passenger set. Now I would like to see that.

Want a pure fantasy set?  Can you chrome plastic?  How about chrome Phantom II passenger cars pulled by a rebranded Coors Light engine.  Could be called the California Express or Colorado Limited

 

OK, I know I'm getting off track.

 

Here are some fantasy cars remembering 9-11 from MTH.  Some of you may not know that the words "Let's roll" on the side of the American Freedom Train's aux tender were the last words of Todd Beamer as they tried to retake AA Flight 93 after it was hijacked.

 

9-11 Cars

 

By the way, the actual AFT aux tender was not white but black with a red stripe to match the T-1. 

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Originally Posted by CAPPilot:

Here are some fantasy cars remembering 9-11 from MTH.  Some of you may not know that the words "Let's roll" on the side of the American Freedom Train's aux tender were the last words of Todd Beamer as they tried to retake AA Flight 93 after it was hijacked.

 

9-11 Cars

 

By the way, the actual AFT aux tender was not white but black with a red stripe to match the T-1. 

I love the 4449/610 matching paint job AFT tender, such a shame they never used anything like that. I'm a huge AFT fan, having saw it in 1976 in my hometown in Florida. I was lucky enough, many years later, to ride behind 4449 re-painted in her AFT colors, in Portland soon after 9/11.

BTW, the aux tender on 4449 (from a cab forward, obtained for use after the Freedom Train was over) did have 'Lets roll' painted on it in that timeframe, but overall was solid black.

Originally Posted by Southwest Hiawatha:
I've seen it done in HO, but not in 0 gauge. One of the manufacturers sold a whole bunch of GG-1's in assorted roadnames. As I recall, the Milwaukee Road version was not well done. If I ever get around to painting mine, I'll post pictures. 
 
Originally Posted by p51:
I'd think that a GG1 would look great in Milwaukee Road Colors...

 

I'd make the road name look more like an early color bi-polar, but other than that, this looks nice.

Originally Posted by Hancock52:

 

That is AWESOME and I don't care that it's a total fantasy scheme.

 

(I've tried to find the MTH DDA40X in Warbonnet livery but no luck.)

 

P.S. Did you do the paint yourself? Whoever did hat's off to them.

Thanks kindly,

 

Both the damaged GG1 shell and the orphaned decals were discounted items, bought without the mating idea in mind.  Nobody but myself to blame for the blasphemous endeavor. 

 

Bruce

 

I don't care for the Mehano model in the photos at all. When I do my fantasy GG-1, it will be much closer to the original Milwaukee color scheme.
  • No giant gold lettering.
  • The center band in maroon, not red.
  • Much thinner striping between colors.
  • The maroon bands stop at the ends like other Milwaukee Road units, not a single band all the way around.
  • Heralds near the ends like on a Little Joe, with a Hiawatha dancing Indian somewhere in the center, either on the cab or in the maroon band.
  • Alternatively, a herald in the center of the maroon band or on the cab, with dancing Indians at the ends.
  • Carry the black roof a bit farther down on the hoods, maybe even with the bottom of the cab window.
  • Adding stabilizing loops to the pantographs would add some authentic Milwaukee flavor. 

Weaver LittleJoe

 
Originally Posted by p51:
Originally Posted by Southwest Hiawatha:
I've seen it done in HO, but not in 0 gauge. One of the manufacturers sold a whole bunch of GG-1's in assorted roadnames. As I recall, the Milwaukee Road version was not well done. If I ever get around to painting mine, I'll post pictures. 
 
Originally Posted by p51:
I'd think that a GG1 would look great in Milwaukee Road Colors...

 

I'd make the road name look more like an early color bi-polar, but other than that, this looks nice.

 

 

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Originally Posted by Dtrainmaster:
Originally Posted by brwebster:

 

Although I don't care for GG1s in general, yours in the Santa Fe paint does look nice. And that Warbonnet scheme works well to split the colors between the two cab ends.

Could you post a picture of it turned around so we can see the other end?

 

Dave

 

 

 

Glad to oblige, Dave.  Since the decal kit held those unique to the B unit I figured adding the flying head would busy up the vast expanse of silver in back.  I'm still debating whether it needs a set of large engine numbers ala PRR.  For now, it retains its tiny PRR's on the number boards.

 

Note evidence of two holes filled where an extra side window bar existed.  I still can't believe that nobody produces a GG1 with only one bar.  I don't recall seeing a real GG1 with 2.

 

 

 

Bruce

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Originally Posted by AGHRMatt:

Here's one I stumbled across on eBay. I had no idea there were any wineries in Texas. Turns out there are two, actually two locations of the same winery. With the name "Red Caboose" I had to have one of their special-run Weaver box cars. I converted it to scale wheels and Kadees.

 

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That's cool; I'd no idea Weaver had issued these. Fortunately there are plenty of them available on the flea**y so I've nabbed one too.

This is a Lionel drag race set.  When the engine is started the sounds are:  "Gentlemen, start your engines."  The sounds of engines reving up before a drag race then begin.  The engine sounds then go to drag race car starting to take off with screeching tires when the engine starts to move.  It is really cool.  The photos were taken on the G&O garden railroad.  NH Joe

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Of course not.

(The 4-6-2 chassis is later K-Line, not Marx; smooth, can-motored runner.) 

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Mike Wolf's greatest "gift" to 3RO bashers: the RK 2-8-8-2. It comes with a big tender, big boiler, is solid and "upscale-able" with 1:48 details and enlargements. I just made this one up (note PW Lionel trailing truck - pretty scale-ish itself).

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