Creating what you want from parts, or Making what the train company's forgot

Looks great, keep enjoying the hobby!

Keep it up.

This is essentially my main interest in the hobby. Can't help it. I should stop and run more of these things (locos and rolling stock), but, next thing you know, something else is on the workbench, belly-up.

Not exactly on topic but I did make a small Vulcan motorized unit using the chassis from a junk #60 trolley and a train show cab find.  They both used the same chassis. Wasn't too hard.

I had a powered  GP9 in FEC livery and wanted at least one more.   I found a really cheap dummy unit on a not ebay auction site, and waited patiently for the proper power truck to show up, and one did, this time on epay for a double saw buck.  Cut the hole in the frame using another Lionel loco for a template.  Being 'old school' I used a regular E unit, but did install LED lighting,  I converted my original powered unit to LED lights, and also in another dummy unit that came in a grab bag box of stuff I bought at a garage sale.

@Ahitpy posted:

Being from the Midwest, I loosely model, ATSF, MOPAC, Frisco, Alton and Wabash.  Since my budget is limited, I take great delight in bashing together parts picked up here and there to make what I want.  Today, while I watched the freezing rain fall outside, I completed a missing spot on the roster for a Frisco FA.  For this project, I got a KMT Frisco ALCO shell, a K-Line FA base plate, put together a powered ALCO truck from K-Line parts, a non-powered truck, used a Williams by Bachmann reverse unit and Williams by Bachmann FA sound kit.  I had added sound to my other FA's as well as cobbled a KMT FA set in MOPAC previously when parts were available from Brasseur's.  I'm always on the lookout for K-Line parts and scour the auction sites, boards and local shows regularly.  I have pictures attached for your enjoyment!  Happy Trains!

well done ! I have done this for years……….while scale is great…………it’s still about the trains.

Following....I like this topic.

Richard

No one in O has made a ATSF 5001 class 2-10-4. 5011 class yes, but not the previous 5001 class. I decided I needed one, so I made my own three years ago by modifying a MTH 5011 class.

Edit: Per moderator request added pictures.

Lou, that is nice.

@Lou1985 posted:

No one in O has made a ATSF 5001 class 2-10-4. 5011 class yes, but not the previous 5001 class. I decided I needed one, so I made my own three years ago.

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Lou....please post pictures rather than re-directing folks from the OP's thread.