has anyone ever thought up a locomotive or piece of rolling stock that only exists in your head and think man i would love to have a model of this but i don't have the craftsman skills to pull this off
there is this engine that has been cooking up in my head for awhile now called the Pro-Trac II locomotive
the Pro-Trac II was built in 1989 by the Altland Locomotive works
it had a long hood much like a sd70 tier 4 that housed a 80,000hp thermobaric engine that ran much like a veranda turbine but with very little emissions. but what set it apart from any other locomotive was this thing was built to basically make cabooses and even end of train devices obsolete
it featured an enlarged cab with computer control much like locomotives today and on the left side of the cab in place of the conductor area and left front windshield was a ton of computer and sensor equipment that monitored the entire train and track conditions
the engineer also wore a vest and headset that was "bluetoothed" to the sensors and monitored the health and activity of the engineer in the cab and if there was a problem the locomotive would take over and call for help if needed
there was a total of 5 built for Altland Federation lines and all of them were scrapped in 1996 except #3016 which was driven by Alyssa Altland from 1995-2004 and after the death of 24 year old Alyssa in 2004 the locomotive was put on display to honor her because she always loved that engine
i have not drawn a picture of that engine yet but would love to have an o scale model of it to run
is it possible for someone to make this engine from a hand drawn picture?
