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 Posted - November 15 2012 : 6:01:21 PM
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Been working on some Susquehanna yellow jacket power for my layout. I bought one engine already beautifully painted, just had to do some upgrades under the hood prior to layout duty. She is a Hallmark GP18, with spark arrestors, speed recorder on lead truck, Prime beacon on roof, Grand Line power pickup assemblies to give 8 wheel pickup, upgraded drive shafts from motor to trucks and soon it will get a can motor. Picked her up from Howie's brass out in Pennsylvania, I can highly recommend Howie's, excellent prices, excellent website. In the next group of pics, is a Tenshodo GP20 that I got real cheap off fleabay. She got a can motor, hobbytown drive shaft from motor to gear tower, stripped of the old NYC paint job and is going to be a yellow jacket when completed. I also picked up a Susquehanna caboose, Greenway custom paint on a Athearn blue box, and a Bev-Bel custom Athearn 4 bay hopper. Cheers Mike
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Posted - November 15 2012 : 7:18:09 PM
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That's beautiful, Mike. I had asked recently if anyone had painted a Tyco GP20 in Susie Q colors, but this is a lot nicer. 
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Posted - November 15 2012 : 11:05:47 PM
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I am sure someone, somewhere has done a tyco GP20 into NYS&W yellow jacket colors. Before Likelike proto 2K it was Tyco or brass. Granted, Susquehanna didnt get any GP20's till they took control of the TP&W. The trio on the SusieQ were GP18's instead, basicly a GP20 without the turbocharger and lacking the smaller cooling fan ahead of the large fan at the rear of the long hood. I got the frame striping done on my GP20. I need to get a can of white primer to prime up the shell and get started on painting it. Thank you for the complement. Mike
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Posted - October 08 2014 : 9:37:01 PM
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I posted this back in Jan 11,2011, was my first try painting .Title was My New/Old GP20
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Posted - October 09 2014 : 06:21:23 AM
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Just gorgeous. Almost makes me want to add another line to my wishlist!
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Posted - October 09 2014 : 09:08:07 AM
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 Cadet, that's awesome! Looks like something a model railroad manufacturer would make today.
-Steve
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