Weekend Update 1/5/25

[Pizzaparty]

Thank you!  Just for anyone's info, I'm also working on the BP-20s for all of you SPFs!

Any chance of seeing the preliminary work?

[draskouasshat]

Any chance of seeing the preliminary work?

i will at a later date.

[towl1996]

Thank you!  Just for anyone's info, I'm also working on the BP-20s for all of you SPFs!

Great news!!

I'd like to get an ABA set.

If you could, place dimples in the underside of the shell for train phone mounts.   

What mechanism will they be designed for? Thanks

[Pizzaparty]

Great news!!

I'd like to get an ABA set.

If you could, place dimples in the underside of the shell for train phone mounts.   

What mechanism will they be designed for? Thanks

I’m definitely going to be in.  the trucks are similar to the PA- I imagine a person could use one of the old lead sled life like engines and just extend it. I imagine you would just need to 3d print a longer frame and drive shafts.


Either way, I’m in

[DirtyD79]

And the washing machine chucked to the side of the road.  Just needs paint and weathering:



DFF

Looks great. That couch makes me think of the orange one in The Wire that the gang members sit on and talk business. Interestingly it too was found discarded somewhere by production crew members.

[John]

Looks great. That couch makes me think of the orange one in The Wire that the gang members sit on and talk business. Interestingly it too was found discarded somewhere by production crew members.

[philippe.whyte]

A bit of a late entry here, but I finally finished up my kitbash of an Atlas C420 into BC Rail 631:





Philippe

[johnb]

A bit of a late entry here, but I finally finished up my kitbash of an Atlas C420 into BC Rail 631:





Philippe

if I wasn't modeling the SP/PE, it would 1980's BC Rail with The Royal Hudson

[mandealco]

Awesome work on the C-420 Phillippe.  Looks great.
Cheers
Steve

[dem34]

I tried a few different attachment methods for adding the slide switch and associated wiring, and I haven't found a configuration that I truly like yet. But everything is back together and a sound-equipped S-2 now crawls through the reworked turnouts.  Good thing, as I am hosting my local NMRA Division on the 19th!      After which, I may re-do a couple of them, and then move on to other turnouts that are showing intermittent problems.

Many thanks to mu26aeh for the miniature slide switches.

Ron

If your feeling adventurous on my 2x4 I made mounts to put the slides on the fascia and then linked them to the turnouts with .010" steel wire mounted in brass tubes. Which was only because I wanted the Power routing but didn't want to hinder installing realistic ground throws.

[craigolio1]

A bit of a late entry here, but I finally finished up my kitbash of an Atlas C420 into BC Rail 631:





Philippe

Awesome!!

[craigolio1]

if I wasn't modeling the SP/PE, it would 1980's BC Rail with The Royal Hudson

Just do it. It’s awesome. I’m modelling that exact thing and am super frustrated and building custom models all the time, haha. Join us!!!

Craig.

[BCR 570]

I finally finished up my kitbash of an Atlas C420 into BC Rail 631

Excellent work!  First time I have seen one of the C-420s with the radiator mods modelled.


Tim

[milw156]

My 4 year old grandson was over today, and we ran trains back and forth on about 40 feet of shelf layout for almost 6 hours with a brake for lunch and some train videos on the tube. The kid aced the Proto-Throttle!



and, as a concession to none of grandpas trains "going off of the mountain", we did have a vehicle-train incident on almost every trip, fortunately with no fatalities or NTSB filings

[atsf_arizona]

Brokomoto, as promised, attached see some interior shots of the Father Nature Baldwin Passenger Shark resin shells, and how the Con-Cor DL-109 mechanism was modified to allow the shell to fit on it.

Basically, it looks like the builder of these models, ground down the sides of the Con-Cor mechanism, in order to allow the Father Nature shells to sit properly.   

See more photos in my PBase album on these models:  https://pbase.com/atsf_arizona/baldwin_passenger_shark_foobie_in_n_scale
Hope these additional photos help!     

@draskouasshat, sounds like you'll have several interested Pennsy N scale modelers ready to buy your accurate BP20 3D printed shells.   I will be very interested to see/hear what mechanism and mechanism modifications you recommend!

At some point, I will make a separate Railwire thread, collecting up the contributions that we all discussed on these Baldwin Passenger Shark N scale models in this Weekly Update for Jan 5th 2025, and documenting the information in that one Railwire thread, for future internet research / referral.    Moderators, I should post that info in the "N and Z scale" category on Railwire?

First, Baldwin builders photo from approximately October 1948, showing the long 80 foot length of the prototype:


Next, a shot of the interior of the powered A-unit model:


Picture of interior of the powered B-unit:


Interior of the dummy A-unit: