Fictional Trains

I am in the process of having made (for a Christmas tree layout) the AWVR SD40-2 and four of the freight cars of its consist used in the movie Unstoppable.

Didn't you try to post some threads like this before?

I really don't think this post fits in this particular forum at all. It would be better placed in one of the modeling forums.

This is a place to discuss REAL trains.

How do I move this to the model forums?

It has been moved for you.

TM Terry posted:

It has been moved for you.

Thanks.

Andrew Boyd posted:

TM Terry posted:

It has been moved for you.

Thanks.

Don’t thank me. Powers much greater than I moved your thread. I just noticed it was moved.

OK. Now I'm going to share my own ideas for fictional locomotives. In specific, I decided to create some fictional super power engines for the PRR. Digital Art of which I have with me. They are...

1. A 4-8-4, which I'd call an R3. I would have probably would have built in 1933. The T1 would still exist in this timeline, but until they were built in mass, these would serve as the K4s' successors. Then continue working with the T1. Personally, I think I'd like to build 300 of these.
2. A 2-8-4 based on the I1, with several design changes (I call it a Rhino.)
3. Another 2-8-4. This time more akin to the ones designed by Lima and used by the Van Sweringen brothers on their lines.
4. Another 4-8-4 based on the M1 4-8-2, which I'd call an R2. This would probably be built simply to see how much better an M1 would fare with the larger firebox.

Of course I have more ideas. But there are the big ones.

I'm an electric railway fan and I've been tempted to create a more-successful version of the Pennsy's E-2b class electrics. My story would be that a fictitious South American railroad was thinking of buying similar models, cancelled their order for political or financial reasons, and some were sold to the PRR or the New Haven.

A pity I'm no good at 3-D printing. a shell of such a beast that could fit over a Lionel FA-frame and might make a good conversation piece after it got kitted out with pantographs. 

I made a fictional train for my layout by repainting a Lionel UP M10000 to Milwaukee Road colors. Great train! It looks much better in orange, maroon and gray.

George

Just for the fun of it, I suggested to a Lionel rep that they ought to consider putting out their "Virginian"/E-33 rectifier electric locomotive in Milwaukee Road freight colors. Despite my rivet-counting tendencies, the wisdom of age and observation has taught me that with electric locomotives, unlike diesels, it's extremely difficult to tell what equipment is under a locomotive hood or car body, and that one electric locomotive that runs off high-voltage AC might look quite similar to another that runs off of 3000 volt or 1500 volt direct current.