Nice job Paul. Only the well informed purest of that locomotive would have ever noticed any difference and I bet they would have needed to compare it to find the differences. Great Work. Dave

Lloyd, I know there are Athearn conversion occasionally available on eBay, haven't seen any Kato versions.. I bought an Athearn conversion 8 years ago and was not satisfied with the crude details on

Steve just wondering if you had any time to cut the track gauges I had requested? Ric Case EBT RR Hamilton,Ohio 1-513-375-7694

paul, the old kato HO engine frames can be adapted as they just extended the axles on their trucks. There is a fellow that converts old chassis to NG 36". I have two of his locos. I just can't find

What did you do to narrow the trucks to HOn3? I narrowed a boxcab body for HOn30 using a Kato N chassis. I cut the left hand window off to narrow the HO body. I added styrene strips to widen the Kato

Bachmann HO 70t chassis and frame, body by Roundhouse. Only the boxcab track cleaner version has end doors. Paul

I may have missed the original post. Where did the chassis come from? Glenn

Very nicely done! Like the old geezer engineer. Weathering superbly done. Gordon Spalty

I am a 100% steam person but to me even that looks really good. Congratulations on a well done model. db

One more news item and I'll quit. Old #18, the narrow gauge industrial boxcab diesel is now equipped with sound! Installed by my son last weekend, it sounds terrific, runs great, all around winner.

That's a very good idea although I hadn't planned to go all the way through. I just might rethink it, thanks! Paul

Might I suggest that if you indeed want to do this that you carefully layout the pattern and drill just the outside holes. Then fit brass tubes filed to fit each hole and after putting them in place,

The small enclosed cabs were hot in summer weather and the pipes helped with air flow. Here is an excellent photo of the rear of #51. I used this photo to make a scale drawing and a pattern for

Very nice. What were these ventilation pipes running through the coal bunker? I have the same PFM model. Dave

Fantastic looking engine. Thanks for sharing. Mike Van Hove🤢 (Green with Envy)

Nice make over. Mark Lewis Stony Point, NC

I recently finished (maybe) my PFM Uintah Mallet #51. (Still thinking of adding the 5 pipes that ran through the coal bunker into the cab for ventilation). The model was not running due to a split

This reminds me a lot of John Allen’s Gorre & Daphetid layout in the sense that it burned up only a couple of weeks after John died (hopefully that won’t happen to Jim’s). But the layout lives

Nothing makes me madder than the circling vultures ready to drop in and grab as much as they can for nothing and then sell it at high prices elsewhere. Each item on a persons layout was made

I went to Jim's house the Sunday after O Scale West. Family and friends of Jim were having a sale of numerous individual items. When I left at the end of the sale hours there was much remaining to be