MTL SW1500 test shots.

[conrail98]

Ok, I'm in now. For 2nd run, unders or steel mill colors please,

Phil

[Dave Schneider]

Looks great Joe. Can you comment on whether it will have a working light on the cab?

Best wishes, Dave

[learmoia]

We are working on the alternative truck and then will follow with a new shell with the hand rail on the side of the shell plus SP light package.

Joe

[JoeD]

 ;)as soon as you post a picture of your conversion...please let me know how it works out.  It'll save me time on the bench


Joe

Allright, but when are we going to see photographs of the version with the Rapido couplers?

[JoeD]

Sorry, no it doesn't.  I tried to figure out a way to get power back across the chassis from the light/dcc board and it required modification to the lifelike tooling...and that wasn't going to happen.  I'm still looking at options, but we had to weigh doing some extreme work or keeping the cost down and getting the chassis in a timely manner.    I also requested that we release undecorated shells, un-assembled at the begining of the release.  Given all the chassis floating around out there, it would give folks the option to do a few of their own SW1500's in a road they don't want to wait for.  If you guys are like me, I'll paint my own and when the company comes out with a factory job, I'll buy it too even if I have to replace the number on one of my own cabs.  Keep your fingers crossed.

Joe

Looks great Joe. Can you comment on whether it will have a working light on the cab?

Best wishes, Dave

[Lemosteam]

Joe,could you heat stake some phosphour bronze contacts onto the inside back wall of the cab that would make contact with each frame half?  the wires cold run up the corners to an led for the lens.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Can we get overhead and end shots? Please!

[jpwisc]

I think I can work with that, please give us some undecs to start with.

[Sokramiketes]

Yes, it's still the Life Like frame but we made changes at the factory to allow for isolating the motor from the frame, including wires with pins that fit into a socket on a modified board.  To go DCC you unplug, remove light board and drop in a decoder (Digitrax is working on one)  We are working on the alternative truck and then will follow with a new shell with the hand rail on the side of the shell plus SP light package.

I'll post shots tomorrow, but there's not much to see.

Joe

Now I'm even more curious if it is wide or not... Russ seemed to confirm that there was no way the Life Like chassis would work for an SW1500.

[JoeD]

it works...I have one running on my layout right now.

Now I'm even more curious if it is wide or not... Russ seemed to confirm that there was no way the Life Like chassis would work for an SW1500.

[JoeD]

We went as thin as we could go with the plastic and ended up 8" scale wider and .040" thinner than the Lifelike shell....I can see where that would be a deal breaker 

Joe

[learmoia]

We went as thin as we could go with the plastic and ended up 8" scale wider and .040" thinner than the Lifelike shell....I can see where that would be a deal breaker 

Joe

That does look wider than it should be.. (were talking about tie spacing right?) 

-ian

[Scottl]

That hood looks really wide to me.

[C855B]

Hmmmm... I dunno. SW1500s always hit me as having wider hoods than their earlier brethren. Judge for yourself in this similar overhead view:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=902179

[ryan_wilkerson]

So the hood is 8" prototype inches wider than the prototype? That's 0.05" in N. Please correct me if I'm not reading that correctly.