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Ebay score!
« on: October 06, 2009, 08:49:02 AM »
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Ok,Who did I beat out on this deal.Got all 3 for $15.One powered,One dummy,and well....you know the other....only problem was shipping and the $2 seller added fees bumped it up to just under 25 bucks...but oh well.Not a bad price to pay for a running SW1500.I like these old units even if the roof is totally incorrect.

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« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2009, 09:27:11 AM »
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Nicely done!
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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2009, 01:54:38 PM »
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You should be able to do a cab switch with something more appropriate though, no?

some paint, and voila.

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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2009, 02:55:57 PM »
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Not a bad price to pay for a running SW1500. I like these old units even if the roof is totally incorrect.


A good price, but it's not an SW1500.


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« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2009, 03:05:38 PM »
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Quote from: wcfn100 on October 06, 2009, 02:55:57 PM
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Not a bad price to pay for a running SW1500. I like these old units even if the roof is totally incorrect.


A good price, but it's not an SW1500.


Jason

Yeah, it's kind of a Frankenstein. The cab is based on proposed drawings that didn't make it into production. IIRC the hood is more like a SW1200.
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« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2009, 03:12:38 PM »
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Quote from: NandW on October 06, 2009, 03:05:38 PM

Yeah, it's kind of a Frankenstein. The cab is based on proposed drawings that didn't make it into production. IIRC the hood is more like a SW1200.

The other story is that the cab is based off an IC unit like this one:



As for the hood, about the only thing that starts to resemble something other than an SW1200 is the headlight IIRC.

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« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2009, 03:25:05 PM »
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The IC units had Paducah built cabs right? (home built)
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« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2009, 02:25:48 AM »
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Home-built cabs is the story on the IC units. The "reason" seems vague at best, contradictory usually. I have read a half-dozen "smokin' hot gospel" stories on the cabs, and none seem to really agree. There was a nice resin cast "curved roof" cab made at one time, but I haven't a clue if it's available now or from where. (A major problem, it seems to me, in N-scale. Detail parts and resin parts come and go. If you're into building model armour kits, it seems within days of the kit's release, $50 worth of photo-etch parts and resin detail parts become available, sometimes from more than one source. This is also true of military aircraft and the new plastic warship models. :()
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« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2009, 07:33:12 AM »
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I have a Life Like switcher cab in the stockpile if you want it.  It might be missing a few details (headlight comes to mind) but it's yours for the asking...

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« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2009, 08:32:27 AM »
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And if you are swapping cabs with Lee, I'll take the old one for another Paducah-built I'm working on for the ICG.  PM me for details. :D
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« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2009, 08:38:02 AM »
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Hey, as long as we're swapping, anyone got any blondes?  Tall is preferred... ;D
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« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2009, 08:48:22 AM »
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Red heads only at the moment . . . and I have astrange need to keep her around . . . . ;)
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