This was a Gilmaur kit originally built by Ed Reutling in his HQ&S colors.
It was time to rework the thing into my fleet. New Canon motor, extra details, new lower gear for slow speed, glass windows and Tsunami TSU-1000 Alco Turbo installed.
And a quick video showing the nice slow speed with the new gear ratio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM0KqP8OwE0&feature=youtu.be
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I have Rich Yoder's 70 GE that Brian Scace DCCed for me that crawls like that. I goes so slowly that you need stakes etc.
Dick
That came out great.
Dan, Your rebuilt S2 looks, sounds and operates extremely nice! Well done!
Is it possible to show an under the hood shot of the work you did there?
Sure can...
Some of the frame before being stripped.
Fitting and testing the Canon motor before painting.
New gear in place
Difference in gears. New on on left. From an article in O Scale Magazine. http://www.oscalemag.com/wordpress/?p=1762
Out of paint before the headlight lenses, glass etc...
Dan, Sweet. Thanks for posting. Definitely looks like the work you put in to the rebuild really paid off by watching the operation of the locomotive in the video.
From the looks of the photos, you have 1 rail pickup from each truck? Is that correct? I assume this makes powering the frogs that much more important. Good to see you using NMRA standard coloring for your wiring! 
BTW, you may have told me this before but, why do you use the PnP format of the Tsunami vs the TSU-1000?
Hey Dan,
That Alco looks and sounds great.
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