K-Line RS-3

I like the additional sealed light detail over the headlight casting. Was that the same for both ends?

Looks like you did fixed pilots too? Nice detailing and weathering.

Bob

@prrhorseshoecurve posted:

I like the additional sealed light detail over the headlight casting. Was that the same for both ends?

No, only the 'front' end.

@RSJB18 posted:

Looks like you did fixed pilots too? Nice detailing and weathering.

Bob

Yes Bob, I printed and fixed new pilots and truck sides to match the prototype. This unit used a special 'Canada only' truck at the time photographed. Of course there is a later picture with 'standard' trucks but that would have been too easy!

Beautiful work.  Do you have a "before" shot?

Beautiful work. True craftsman.

Is your whole layout Super O or just your test track?

Pete

@midnightwrecking posted:

MLW Pacific Great Eastern RS-3 almost bashed into shape from a K-Line New York Central issue. I hope to have this in my gallery 'soon'.

Sweet. Great work (even tho' you "de-NYC'd" it). I like the paint colors. I remember the PGE name from my early GM&O RR clerk days of sorting Interline Received waybills for the Keypunch Dept. Yes, manually. Yes, Keypunch...I digress.

The fixed pilots look so sharp. I've "fixed" a few myself, when not messing with steamers. Your job is impressive. But, I note that you have retained the 3RO couplers (as have I), so I assume that you still use the truck-mounted couplers on your rolling stock.

How do the fixed pilots and your rolling stock perform on curves in the real world of layout use? I have found that fixing the pilots often fouls that geometry up, even on 072 curves.

@D500 posted:

Sweet. Great work (even tho' you "de-NYC'd" it). I like the paint colors. I remember the PGE name from my early GM&O RR clerk days of sorting Interline Received waybills for the Keypunch Dept. Yes, manually. Yes, Keypunch...I digress.

The fixed pilots look so sharp. I've "fixed" a few myself, when not messing with steamers. Your job is impressive. But, I note that you have retained the 3RO couplers (as have I), so I assume that you still use the truck-mounted couplers on your rolling stock.

How do the fixed pilots and your rolling stock perform on curves in the real world of layout use? I have found that fixing the pilots often fouls that geometry up, even on 072 curves.

I fix the pilots and the front coupler but cheat with the actual working coupler. I just run my trains, not  'operate' them.

great modeling! JohnA

@jrose609 posted:

Beautiful work.  Do you have a "before" shot?

@Norton posted:

Beautiful work. True craftsman.

Is your whole layout Super O or just your test track?

Pete

It is all Super O, Pete, but then that's not saying much!

Completed Number 570. More pics added to Daniel's 'O' gauge projects.

@midnightwrecking posted:

@midnightwrecking posted:

Completed Number 570. More pics added to Dan's O gauge projects.

Quite the transformation!  Great job!

Thank you Jason.

Amazing transformation, Daniel. Was the donor K-Line, or K-Line by Lionel? Thanks.

RS 3, with horizontal drive system, was an early 1990's Weaver Product.  The "China drive" vertical cans was later.  The horizontal drive had plastic gears associated with a chain drive.  There were parts for repair of these older systems.

Vertical can Weaver RS3 rear in picture.

Daniel, great job!  What did you use for MU hoses?

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Amazing transformation, Daniel. Was the donor K-Line, or K-Line by Lionel? Thanks.

Sorry, Mark, I don't know. I don't have the box or any paperwork.

@coach joe posted:

Daniel, great job!  What did you use for MU hoses?

I cut the 'hand' off the end of Atlas air-line and glued it to flexible wire insulation after pulling the wires out, then gluing that to piping made from rod and tubing.

Daniel - here is a picture of the K-Line by Lionel NY Central RS3, catalogued in 2007. Has the same road number as yours. Looks like the safety striping on your pilot was added after the catalog picture.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Daniel - here is a picture of the K-Line by Lionel NY Central RS3, catalogued in 2007. Has the same road number as yours. Looks like the safety striping on your pilot was added after the catalog picture.

@midnightwrecking, well done on your RS3; it is spectacular! 

Mine had them, as well.

If I knew you were going to have 3D printed pilots available, I would have not sold it.  She sits a little high.

Thanks!

- Mario

Great looking loco.

@CentralFan1976 posted:

@midnightwrecking, well done on your RS3; it is spectacular!

Mine had them, as well.

If I knew you were going to have 3D printed pilots available, I would have not sold it.  She sits a little high.

Thanks!

- Mario

Mario with all the pilots and parts to fix pilots you developed and have on Shapeways? I'm surprised you gave up on the RS3 instead of coming up with a pilot.

Just my personal opinion, but I think the RS-3 is one of the nicest Diesel locomotives, in terms of aesthetics, from the 60's and 70's.

I rode behind them lots of times on the LIRR, between Jamaica and Speonk and other stations.

When Weaver (?) issued them, I bought a couple and had them custom-painted for the LIRR by a very talented guy in a hobby shop in Babylon. He also did a few Wms "Madison" coaches and painted them in LIRR livery.  I'll dig out a few and post some pictures.

Some quick RS3 stats - from American-rails.com - produced from 1950 to 1956, over 1300 made, 1600 HP; NY Central bought 130, L&N 127, PRR 121, D&H 104.

So, did the LIRR inherit them from PRR or did they buy them used from another RR?

LIRR bought them new. I believe the only second hand ones (D&H)? were two RS-2s that were painted with a horizontal blue stripe.

@Scotie posted:

LIRR bought them new. I believe the only second hand ones (D&H)? were two RS-2s that were painted with a horizontal blue stripe.

Yup same website says LIRR bought 10 RS3s in 1955.