A friend and I, both here in Alaska have been working with a guy in Indiana to get some custom painted locomotives to represent the Bicentennial locomotives that the ARR ran in 1976 and for several years following. You can get these in N and HO but no one makes them in O gauge. A lot of work and parts have been involved and shipped around the country. My friend bought into a 3D printer and made the snowplow and pilot assemblies, the winterization hatches and the steam generator covers as used on the Alaska Railroad. We had to have custom decals made to fit, you can also get those in smaller gauges but not in O. It's been quite a project and my locomotives were the first to be finished. The ARR never ran a matching B unit, but we felt with all the pictures we had seen when they ran a B unit in the usual Alaska colors, it was just so out of place so working with the decal people, we had a set of decals for the B unit made up. Also made up and still under construction is a matching Caboose representing the caboose the ARR had in 1976 to match. There are custom 3D printed parts for that too and hopefully it will be finished and ready to ship around months end. But these are a great set and a representation of the trains I remember seeing as a kid here in Alaska in 1976.
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