help please need help identifying locomotive

IT appears to be a crude and early rendering of an ALCO DL109. 

My friend passed away before I could ask him I know he made custom ones but nothing like this trying to figure out if it is multiple trains put in one

That's certainly on oldie. I'm sure someone either here or at the MTJ forum will be able to identify it...

 

Mark in Oregon

First thing that came to my mind was a Dl 109 too.Old yes. But then,  how old is a real DL 109.?The machanics do look like the 40s. Looks also first production in 1939.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALCO_DL-109

I don't pay much attention to locomotives i consider ugly, but there was an article about this one in a TCA Quarterly about two decades ago.  Time to ask on the 3-rail forum.

Wow more info in less then a day then I found in almost a year. I found one close to it that had sold on ebay but that one didn't have any names. I found some track in my 3 rail o gauge pile that was old flex track were the 2 outer rails were able to be powered since the ties were wood and it ran great but I set it up for a corner and it was way to big to go around a 48" curve. But I think that has something to do with what looks to be a replaced frame and floor. But the trucks are very long and have a hard time with corners

Do the trucks with working suspension look like adams and son product? And with the length of the trucks it has a real hard time on cornerz

I believe the carbody casting was produced by a company called Bay-State Models, . The June '75 issue of Vane Jone's O Scale Railroading has two separate photos of these both finished in different New Haven schemes, one in three rail and the other 2-rail owned  by the late Jan Lorenzen.  From my experience a fairly rare doorstop, can you definitively determine the casting material? Bake-lite or bronze or ??? Regardless a nice find, thanks for sharing the photos.  

The shape is bake-lite and the details like doors roof nose are I think brass but don't know enough on what they used to know. It is gold color I know that.

Do you happen to know how I would be able to find that article and do you know if the drive train is the same

Is their a way to get old articles on this train

Sorry for the delay Trainemaine- the 6-75 OST issue sites only two photos of this Locomotive or Engine, it provides no insight into their respective drive trains , either two or three rail. For three rail I would suggest considering adapting a donor A1A trucked chassis from an Lionel or MTH PA , as in grinding the chassis plate to fit, and working the inside of the casting to fit with a mini-grinder. Two rail, I'd look for a CLW PA drive train and trucks. I'm sure the brain trust here can straighten this out better than I can, but again, I really like those old O scale diesel car body castings like this Bay State DL.

Pete