I made a new French Diesel from a Lionel EP5

Now that's fairly awesome!!  Nice work

Very cool!!! I have bought a number of older Lima wagons for use behind my Lionel Harry Potter loco.

Nice work Dave, looks great

THANKS,ALEX

Dave, what a great job!  Thanks for sharing

Don

And they said you don't have any talent!!!!!

Don

Very cool! Nice handy work.

Dave great looking adaptation, can't wait to see it in person :-)

Here's a pic with the body off. You can see the brass antenna, should pick up well.

Merci John S, mais mon français n'est pas bon.

Thanks everyone, it's great fun creating a unique loco. My only problem now is, my diesel has EP5 Electric sounds. Don't know if I can change that? Anyone know? I'm not up with TMCC sounds stuff.

That looks incredible, Dave! Now I want one.

Nicely done!

Jim, these locos come up occasionally, but check eBay UK too. The EP5 I used was a re-release with magnetraction and MTCC with an old style Pullmore. It has Railsounds too. It really is an easy mod to do.

Dave:

That's very nice work. Since you mentioned you buy Lima O scale equipment, you're probably the best one to answer this question. Have you seen the Italian FS E444 electric for sale recently?

Thanks in advance,

Bob

Yeah, but they were talking about music, not modeling skill. 

Seriously, Dave, excellent work.  Beautiful.

Pete

Hi Bob, no, only in HO, yesterday on the Bay.

That is a wonderful conversion! I believe the sound chip can be easily removed and replaced with a diesel sound chip and unlike MTH it will have no affect on the running characteristics. I would suggest that you check with Lionel although I'm sure that there are other sources too.

Eric Hofberg

TCA, LCCA

MTH ASC Tech

Thanks Eric, I will ask on the TMCC Legacy board. Actually, I just received a Legacy control system yesterday. I've only been familiar with DCS until now.

If it didn't involve altering the chassis, I'd do it in a heartbeat. 

Nice conversion Dave, use to have one or two of those! It will certainly pull better than the Lima mech. 

Stephen from Down Under      (cTr...Choose the Right)

Yes Stephen, the Lima engines wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding. This loco has only one Pullmore motor, but it should be OK, I would have much preferred twin can motors, but the aim of this exercise is to use what I have, as I just don't know what will fit until I try it. But, seeing this one was relatively easy, I may make another.

Jim,you have the skills to do this, it is an easy conversion. All you  need is a Dremel and a hot glue gun.

A really nice bash Dave.  Really nice.

Fred

A picture of the prototype:

http://www.railfaneurope.net/p...l/67000/67000aix.jpg

Dave, again that's a beautiful model you've got there.

Bob

Nice, but the front and paint job did make me think of an 1960's VW minivan

I agree Chris, no mistaking it's European, maybe I can find a correct VW symbol for the front.

They look great double heading, I will get some of MTH's new European freight wagons to pull now. It will make a nice looking train.

Aha so it was you that out bid me 

Looking a lot better than I could have done with it well done

look forward seeing it running with a rack of wagons.

James