3d Rail Sunset CPR FP-7s Face lift

Looks good.  That had to be quite an effort to mask the shell before painting.

 Hi Greg

 Yes there was quite alot of masking involved as I wanted to keep the existing yellow stripes and front Beaver shield.

  I have a few touch ups to do but I am happy with the results so far.

  The B unit is next and should look great pulling the Dominion

Al

Nice job. Do you have a before and after snapshot?

BOBBYD

  The first 3 pics are before I started the work.

The last 3 pics show the loco with new pilot and grey applied

 The most work was modifying the sheet metal frame to allow for the new pilot, now that it is attached to the body

Al

Here are a few pics of installing the rear coupler on the A unit

 I  don't know if theres a better way of doing this but I decided to just do it

  I used the existing coupler adapter but shimmed it with 3/8” styrene spacer

Also drilled 2 new holes for the 2 2/56 x1/2” machine screws to afix to the chassis

 A modified Kadee # 805 was installed for closer coupling

  Here are some pics of the work so far

Al

Looks good!

I have two 3RD Rail C&O FP7's and the huge spacing between the two units using the dummy lobster claw couplers that come with the engines was hideous. I bought two of 3RD Rail's 2 rail kadee mounting brackets from Scott, turned them 180 degrees from how they would normally be mounted, and added short box Kadee 806's.

This really narrowed the gap between the units and was very simple to do.

Also, as received everything below the carbody was painted black and should have been C&O blue. The font that 3RD rail used for the script Chesapeake and Ohio is best described as squished and slanted too much as well as the engine number on the 8002 was in a different place than on the 8013. Repainted the lower parts of the engines blue and removed the road name and number lettering carefully with lacquer thinner. Re-lettered with old Champ decals, masked all the clear parts off and put a new coat of clear on the engines. Looks a lot better.

Ken

Ken

  Those C&O units Look great!

I kinda figured there must be a pre made adapter for mounting the Kadees lol

  Looks like I will need to make an additional bracket adapter out of brass stock for the B unit

  Al 

Well I have finally completed the units and have included a vid showing them in service

  Looks like I have a glitch with the running and number board lites which I will rectify

Al

Neat!

Looks great.  Scott kind of goofed on the CP grey color.

I wish Scott will reissue them again like the E7.

 RDJ92807     The diesel grey colour has been discussed in previous past threads and yes it seemed to be a goof up but regardless, these are still excellent representation of these CPR early diesels

  I too would like to see a re-issue of these Diesels but first, I would like to see Scott re-issue the “Canadian” Budd car set Again!

 Ron    Yup neat for sure. Its a lot of fun and I enjoy modifying models more than doin scenery on the layout as of of late 

Al