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 Posted - August 18 2012 : 1:45:27 PM
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Guys, its time I add some new material and I have been!
So anyway, I do alot of custom work on things you just don't find and needless to say people want that sort of thing. Or atleast I have found! Specially models no big company makes. So, here we go!
I took a factory Athearn GP-9, and made it into one of the famous Western Maryland "Chopped Nose Geeps as the shop men in Hagerstown, MD shops called them, as thats where these mules were made in real life......
This one, however is one of the few that in real life, made it to the Chessie era, and got Chessie paint, WITH a 2 digit Western Maryland road number!  Not many of these in real life made it to have the 2 digit road number, Chessie System actually took and gave them the 4 digit road number that fell into the GP-9 series of the road, only later to be traded back in to EMD for GP40-2's!
I took and cut the nose out of the original model, measured it, and cut again to get the nose height, and then re-attached it to the sill and side battery boxes. I then had to make a fill plate for the cab, with a window that was mill cut out with a 1/16th end mill, and then it was glued into the open gap in the cab to make a cab front.
Then, needless to say the whole locomotive got painted in Chessie colors and metal hand railing was added!
ENJOY!
~John
Many have tried to, and failed, ya just can't repair stupid...
Do NOT try to Idiot-Proof anything!!!! God, will simply create a better......IDIOT!
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