We need an NW-2 thread, with photos

[ScaleCraft]

That's why I very carefully snuck that "PE" into the post!

I was just reading through a chapter on these last night thinking that if I could find a decent small diesel shell I'd have a place to make use of a pantograph just for the fun of it all.

Here ya go:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[ScaleCraft]

Hey, it's small...has a pantograph....and it's 0 gauge. Just up yer alley!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hey, it's small...has a pantograph....and it's 0 gauge. Just up yer alley!

Small I'll give you; pantograph......stretching reality - full size working one that I can use for overhead power collection, no. O gauge; Meh.... 2 rail scale, please.

No fun anyway - I want to make my own from a scale shell.

Like to find a decent 44 ton or smaller unit that I can pound on....re-power with a Q-car drive.

[ScaleCraft]

Ah, but I wuz specific on 0 gauge....notice I didn't say 0 scale?!

[bob turner]

Are you looking for that rather good International shell?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Ah, but I wuz specific on 0 gauge....notice I didn't say 0 scale?!

Noticed.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Are you looking for that rather good International shell?

Which one? I just wrapped up re-powering an ED144.

[bob turner]

Not fluent in part numbers. They look like those steeplecabs that used to work freights in the Chicago area. I would post a photo, but . . .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Not fluent in part numbers. They look like those steeplecabs that used to work freights in the Chicago area. I would post a photo, but . . .

Ok, I know what you refer to then - sure, interested.

[prrjim]

IN the first photo, the NP 100 is a model of an "SW", not an SW-1. On the SW-1, the frame is the same length, but the cab end of the body is also moved in toward center as on the radiator end. There is a large "porch" at both ends.

Many Years ago, in the 1980s, I was working on a project in Kansas City and was visiting about once a month for a week at a time. With time to kill in the evenings, I found Spotlight Hobbies. They had a large stock of old-new O scale and recent build O scale. There were a couple of GMC kits on the shelf and i looked them over. One was the SW model, one was an NW-2. I didn't buy either, opting for a PRR C1 steamer from USH instead which was new in the box. Later I kicked myself for not buying the SW kit because I thought it was an SW-1. Then I learned it was not and I thought is was an imaginary model. In the early 2000 I got interested in trying to figure out what it would take to make an SW-1 out of an AN/GMC NW-2. In my research I stumbled onto the SW prototype. EMC(before GM/EMD), built that model as their 600 HP version along with NW2. A few railroads had them, including one on PRR. The bottom line is that the GMC kit was/is a pretty good version of SW locomotive. It has the sand box on the front like the SW-1, but has the cab placement/hood on the rear like the NW-2.

I think it is a rare model. The one in this thread is the second one I have seen.

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I see you have discovered what a REAL HORROR image looks like!

[R.K. Maroon]

Nice GIF, Rufus. How's the anger management therapy going?

Back to the subject. Here is an AN NW-2 in Jenks Blue that sold on eBay but also (before or later) in a Stouts auction:





Note the tilted motor. Not sure what's going on there. Maybe it's just loose?

Pete and I saw a lot of Jenks blue after moving from Chicago to Dallas in 1967. It's just a dip scheme but the buzz-saw herald, the script logo, and screaming eagle (which came later?) gave it some interest. Works for me, at any rate.

Jim

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice GIF, Rufus. How's the anger management therapy going?

The patients don't pay me enough to run the therapy sessions anymore,

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[R.K. Maroon]

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Here is another NW-2 spotted on eBay some time back:





Interesting motor mount. Note also the custom body bolsters and custom truck bolster on the driven truck. I thought the factor setup was perfectly fine, but it seems like a lot of people just wanna do their own thing.

Jim