Lets see your kitbashed railcars or engines!

Two CB&Q Waycars 

1st one an NE 10 steel Way car. 

Before

After

 Prototype.

2nd is an NE1/4 Wood Waycar

Before

After

 Prototype

This has been a long term project.  I do a little until things become boring then set it aside for later.  I'm in the midst of scratch building a cellestory roof and recently found some side window frames in plastic to speed up assembly.  Running gear is out of a inspection pickup with CC.

Bruce

Well, you asked!  I am a bashaholic.

The loco 2921 below doesn't look it, but it the most heavily bashed loco I have.  Early MTH scale 2900 series ATSF steamer body (loco  mounted on a new Legacy ATSF 3751 chassis, with the original MTH pilot and after trucks installed on the Legacy chassis (the majority of the work, with all Legacy boards and connectors, etc moved to the original MTH tender.  The later, bigger, heavier 2900s had the same driver diameter and wheelbase as the 3751, so this is still scale, and it runs incredibly well and sounds even better (the bigger MTh tender makes the sound deeper).  One of my six prime locos now.  

Lionchief plus 4-6-2 modified (new larger/taller cab, a few other changes, only one pilot axle) into a fairly near-scale model of a small 1850 class ATSF 2-6-2.  The LC+ tender is almost exactly a scale model now of the  ATSF "small" coal tender as modified in the late '40s for oil.

Lionchief Hudson modified to a 4-6-2 with a new ATSF style cab (higher, angle front, right window shapes, etc., and other machinery added to a touch look.  .  MTH RK semi-scale 2900 tender just for fun. 

FrankenBEEP.  RMT Bang with long BEEP body, made for two stock ones, attached.

This was a Lionel 0-4-0.  It is now a model of a cab forward 0-4-0 ttank engine that was posted ont eh forum about a year ago.  Interesting if very very ugly.  Ugh!

Used to be a Lionel TMCC T-1, now a model of the never-built Baldwin steam streamliner 6-4-4-4 that ATSF nearly ordered.  

I have cut down a lot of traditional cars to run on my top, all 36" icurve loop, which is "BEEPWorld" - nothing longer than a bEEP allowed on it and these cars were all shortened to meet that criterion.

Lionel Mogul body mounted on a WBB Baldwin 10-wheeler chassis with a axle under the cab added. 

WLoco was as a BEEP.  Shay side mechaism actually works.  3-axle caboose is, well, different!

I had a spare 3-axle truck with China drive, and some (well, alot) of plastic sheet . . 

more cars shortened to meet the BEEPworld criteria. 

Nothing real drastic, but I have converted Marx 7" four wheel cars to 8 wheel.

Very cool idea.  They must run much better, particularly through switches.

The starter car: I removed the body from the frame, shortened the frame and relocated one of the arch bar  trucks.

The drawing: Calculated the dimensions for the new car body.

The cardboard mockup on the shortened frame:

The fabrication of the new body:

Continued . . .  The last post I made on this cut my photos short.  Anyway, here is the finished kitbash of a unique reefer.  Tedious and challenging work for my first car kitbash.

Continued . . .  The last post I made on this cut my photos short.  Anyway, here is the finished kitbash of a unique reefer.  Tedious and challenging work for my first car kitbash.

Nicely done!  I assumed this was a fantasy kitbash until I saw the photo of the original car.  Reminded me of the K-Line operating milk car with offset doors.

Bruce

I've done those two myself.

How about a Railking 2-8-8-2 bashed into a N&W Class X 0-8-8-0

Scott Smith

Other projects

Scott Smith

This is hardly a kitbash, but it is a modified PW LIONEL F3 to resemble the Burlington F2 153.  I had a great photo of the prototype, but can't locate it, so I've included one or two that I found.  Start with the model with the missing "3" on the number board:

From a modeling standpoint, the A unit received a second headlight, brass side number boards, a third porthole, high fan shrouds, and the long stripe not found on prototype newer F units.  The B unit received the third porthole, vents were eliminated, and high fan shrouds added.  Here's the prototype:

As I said, not really a kitbash, but, for me, a fair representation of the prototype done 20 years ago because of a friendship with the late Rich Sherry; a very fine PW F3 repainter in Chicago.

And here I was proud of my bashed auto carrier!  Wow!  Kit bashing engines is pretty extreme but you guys have turned out some good looking running gear!  

tackindy, you should be proud; great topic.

A Lionel Berkshire bashed into a Canadian National Northern and Lionel 225E into a Canadian Pacific Pacific . The tenders are scratch built.

beautiful engines! what did you use for a pilot truck on the 2317?

Dave, the 2317's pilot truck is a standard Hudson truck with a slightly shortened wheel base.

thanks for the pic Daniel!

I've done several sets of articulated 5-car 48' intermodal well-car sets- started with 5 MTH husky stacks, cut the car ends off, and fabricated new pieces to make them lowered to the track and articulated in the 5-car set. Also painted these in the TTX scheme. Have many others in Pacer, BNSF, CN, etc.

I have thought about doing this as well.  I guess since I've gotten bold enough to hack an mth auto carrier I might as well pick out my two least favorite Husky well cars and get to cutting!  

Did you use the original trucks?

Yes, just remove the couplers on the middle trucks...

Not a real obvious kit bash.......but a really cheap one!!! The body of this box car was free.......a guy I bought some O scale parts from used it as the shipping box!!!! He placed the parts inside and wrapped it in craft paper!! It arrived intact so I had to use it. I made a chassis/frame from sheet plastic with some details..wire corner steps...trucks I had on hand and a brake wheel from the parts box. GREAT box car for free!!!!!

(the B&O box car)

Old Williams GP-7

ugh Dave...I'm gonna need that shipping box returned.....

Nice work......details on those hand rails??? Always an issue making nice ones.

 MTH caboose with a brass frame and 2 rails trucks.

Santa Fe GP7u and slug.

Santa Fe "SWBEEP"

Santa Fe boom tender.

Too many to post but a few.

Williams scale die-cast J1 Hudson, "super" detailed:

Weaver brass ATSF Pacific (de-streamstyled Valley Flyer; most in this class looked more like this):

Freelance Garrett:

Ex-MTH RK USRA 2-8-8-2 made into a near-scale NYC 0-8-8-0 hump switcher; TMCC,

etc. NYC had about 14 of these:

Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Ten-Wheeler (real RR), modified WBB 4-6-0,

with old die-cast tender, ERR DC Commander/Electrocoupler:

For the Marxists out there: K-Marx: modern K-line underneath, spliced Marx 666 shells on top, 666 tender, Lionel couplers, etc.

Etc...

Here's a little On30 0-4-4 forney-type loco I bashed out of a Bachmann 0-4-0 Porter years ago...

This On30 centercab gas-mechanical loco began life as a dual flywheel Bachmann HO F-unit. The O scale superstructure is made of styrene, as are the home made side rods.

Here are a few shots of an Atlas gondola that I cut down and turned into a spare truck/crane tender car.  It's part of a custom-build Jersey Central wreck train project that I've been slowly working on over time, and was the very first railcar kitbash project I ever attempted!

Here's the prototype...

I'd have a shorter list of unkit-bashed cars

However...here's the one that I'm most proud of simply because I did it in collaboration with the late Ed Reutling, a Seaboard Whalebelly Hopper:

We both had been thinking about these cars, Ed ended up doing a SCL car while mine is SAL, both were published in mags a few years back.

Modeling SAL you have to be able to cut and grind if you want something near what they owned.

Before I went to full scale equipment, I built a Westinghouse Electric from two #520 Lionel shells and Williams GG1 running gear. Working marker lights, interior lighting and detail. Don

I hope I don't offend you folks. You do some super jobs on these, I feel like a rookie here but thought I would show some S gauge if I can load the pics.

Ray

Love that ATSF nearly ordered 6-4-4-4.

Thanks

Ray

I have enjoyed custom painting locos, but here are a couple Marx that got a bit more than just refinishing.  The tin steamer is shown with a stock example.  I cut off the simulated trucks and added a pilot truck, brass railings and sand pipes, and Robert Grossman decals.  Oops, I see the pilot truck is derailed.    Must shoot another photo for the file.

The E7 diesel was a damaged ATSF unit.  I sawed off the simulated lower headlight, added ditch lights (HO engine headlights) and an extended headlight reflector so the ditch lights are illuminated.  When I customize Marx engines, I don't detail extensively, but try to make it as Louis Marx & Co. might have.

An Alaska RR GP7 that started life like this

I painted like this, added the snow plow and winterization hatch

then along cam a reasonably priced Ocean Exploration GP9 and a swap of body shells gave me an Alaska GP7 with yellow frame and railsounds.  Now I've to figure out how to add the snowplow and paint the trucks silver

This 18th century woodside gondola started out life as horse corral car.

This Army Corps of Engineers Crane Tender came out of a scrap box with some sort of vibromotor or light fixture on it.  Swapped out trucks, opened up the steps, added wood decking with oil stains, grab irons, tool boxes made from Legos and side boards.

This is my Marx postwar 898 customized with Marx 999 drive train and trucks and Marx 994 domes plus other custom parts, to create a prewar looking loco to pull my small collection of prewar Lionel cars.

Here's my Marx Commodore Vanderbilt with a smoke unit from a Marx 666. Tender is a plastic 8-wheel tender with all rivet detail sanded off and mounted on a four wheel tin frame.