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Literally on the fly I had a few minutes so I grabbed an loose GP20 shell and sprayed it with flat black and cleared it. I then left it set for a week until I had the time to put on some PRR decals.
Loosely patterned after the red box Mantua PRR C430 I went with the 6536 road number, from the NYC GP20, and the nose herald to make it interesting. It is a PT shell but I might go with MU2 power.
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AF,
Looks GREAT! Unbelievable that its a TYCO model! Kind of like the CSX GP16 I did from a GP20......
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Thanks John. Maybe I'll get it together this weekend. A nice simple project.
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AF,
Yeah thats not a difficult one to finish! (I actually wish more of my own projects were that simple), but everything seems to be complicated to some extent!

The shell looks GREAT tho.....And then to add handrailing will look even better!
~John

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Looks great.
Nice work.
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Very nice! Can't wait to see the finished product.
Starting my Tyco and other favorites collection over again after 37 years.
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Very neat job!
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Here's what it looks like now with borrowed hand rails and running gear. Maybe this is what one would have looked like if Tyco had made one in the day. I know Mantua has made these with 8wd running gear.
It says 6596, and the other side is 6536, since I ran out of "3s" but I'll modify the "9" later. The number boards will probably stay 5628 like the 6536 NYC GP20 number boards, I won recently and, posted under motive power.

Thanks for all the positive comments fellas.
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....... Maybe this is what one would have looked like if Tyco had made one in the day. ......
It says 6596, and the other side is 6536, since I ran out of "3s"

Originally posted by Alco Fan - December 08 2012 :  7:29:58 PM



That is how TYCO would have made it.


Is that rattle can or airbrushed?
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NC shortlines,

It's spray can.

Thanks so much for the comment too.
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AF,
Looks GREAT finished! Metal hand rail or plastic ones?
~John

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Thanks John.
Tha handrails are off a Mantua GP20 8wd drive version. That helped it go together even faster.
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