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I have been wanting to paint this engine for a while. I found the shell and chassis at a train show last fall. So, I had finally had some time to paint it and put it together by July 4th, 2022. This Morristown & Erie GP-7 I have seen sitting for a while on a siding near where I go to the gym. One day I stopped and was able to walk up to it and took a lot of pics of it. Then after mixing the grey-blue color, I was able to take a paint sample and hold it next to the engine. It was pretty close. I used a special mix Cotton Belt Grey I had lying around and found a Testor's Sea Blue color which brought it close enough to the original engine color. After a couple of weeks, the engine disappeared from the siding. I hope it wasn't sent to the Naporano Scrap yards to be cut up.....
Here are the results:











Here are the pics of the real engine:








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I don't think Naporano's got it. I think they're out of business.

Nice touch with the offset number boards. There is a story behind why the real ones are that way. On first generation EMDs the number boards as originally built do not sit flush with the glass the way they do on newer units. EMD used a light box with slots in the front so that the numbers could easily be changed. Certain railroads, like SP, used to change the number boards to reflect the train they were pulling. If number 100 was pulling train 53, the number boards would read 53 instead of 100. Most number boards I came across while combing the boneyards at Altoona were set up for 4 digit numbers and thus had 4 slots. The whole box sat in a bracket in the nose and could be easily pulled out to change the numbers, or the light bulbs. It was an ingenious system that few modellers have ever seen in person.
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That's interesting! Thanks!
Maybe, Hopefully it is on another siding....
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Sweet paint job!

One thing I've noticed on number boards is that some railroads have an X followed by the engine number. Some railroads run most trains as extras, so the train number of an eastbound train pulled by engine 844, for example would be Extra 844 East (X844).

This goes along with Jward's point about the number board being the train number.

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Excellent work!
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Realistic look to honor its prototype. Well done.
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Most impressive- modeling a survivor in survivor stenciling.
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Today 1/11/23 I saw that engine ME 100 on the same siding where I took those pics....
So, I stopped and took a close look at it....
The good news is that it is still in service. M&E uses it to haul some tank cars back and forth...
The bad news is that it was hit by some Urban Yutes that tagged it with some grafitti. I hate idiots that do that stuff....

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Interesting locomotive, almost a dead ringer for the Athearn shell having both dynamic brakes and a winterization hatch covering one of the radiator fans. If you look closely at the prototype pictures you can see the original paint scheme underneath the blue-grey paint....







Can you see it?

It's an old Bangor and Aroostook locomotive. Check the link below to see how it used to look when it was in service in Maine...

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/bar/bar68dsa.jpg

Other BAR details include the bell bracket mounted up high on the short hood, the undersized fuel tank, and the unusual looking MU cable receptacles.

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Athearn made a small number of GP-7u M & E patched engines....




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