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Mine. For my free lanced PW.

Waiting for long hood decals to get here still.

Mine. For my free lanced PW.

Waiting for long hood decals to get here still.

Here a couple of mine.

B&O FA units. Done in the 1970's. Still running well today. Originally Rock island units.

These were Lionel Santa FE PA's that I had Jeff Sohn repaint to Canadian Pacific. A great 4 motor unit that I use with the 8 car 18" K-Line Canadian Pacific pass cars. Scored a couple extra vista dome cars. 

This Lionel Reading T-1 (2100; 6-18006; 1989) was custom painted as 2124 by Reading Steam Guru. Wowak added working valve gear, a scale pilot coupler and whistle, and other details. J. D. S. Limited Productions installed a fan-driven smoke unit and a LED headlight

Just one of many.

I have many repaints, steam and diesel; too many to post. Here are 2 off-the-wall examples.

Two Lionel cheapies, but I like them; the GM&O was done ages ago, even before Lionel offered the "JC Penney" (I think) GM&O RS-3.

My early weathering job on the GM&O unit was, ah, intense, shall we say. I still like it, though, if only for nostalgia reasons. The L&N was done only about 5 years ago. Both are accurate paint schemes.

These Lionel RS-3's are really good enough to add proper fuel tanks and close up/frame-mount the pilots. I can live with the handrails - not too thick on these. Add an ERR Commander (cruise commander, maybe?) after the above tank/pilot "improvements" and off you go. The coupler mounts are "non-standard", so adding remote couplers would not be a drop-in situation, but not tragically difficult.

My free lanced Allegheny and Connoquenessing "The A/C Line" formally the Lionel D&RG Valcun switchers.

Dennis

This was my attempt at a repaint.  A K-Line semi-scale mikado. (formerly PRR).

Other Lionel PW F3s repainted, formerly 2333 NYC with the paint peeling off glossy black primer, a common problem with these 2333 engines.  Had them repainted years ago into M.P. freight engines by friend Bob in Illinois, Chicago area.  Do not consider having Lionel PW I have repainted, too much, condition and grade of collection best kept as is.  Need to begin seeking old, abused shells for repaint and new road names, I reckon.............

Jesse     TCA

The year is 1989. Dallas, PA Penn Station is in its last year of operation at that location, and will soon be relocated to Maryland.
One of the last trains to serve the station is the C&NW Peninsula "400."

Here are a few I've done.

The  Lionel traditional size SD9 was originally a Chessie. I stripped and repainted the blue chassis (an awful job, Lionel makes that paint not to come off!), then swapped a Lionel GP9 body onto it. Finally I renumbered the body to a correct SD9 road number. The unit has TMCC; I did it about ten years ago. This was before MTH came out with their Rail King Scale SD9 in Milwaukee Road. The transfer caboose is a Lionel that I repainted. The Milwaukee had similar cabooses, but they were steel, not wood. 

K-Line Shay, redecorated to Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul. It's not well known, but the Milwaukee Road owned a few Shays in the early part of the 20th century. The log car is a LOTS special run; I have enough of them to make a nice train. Caboose is an MTH bobber.

This is a Williams SD45 that I did for the Gadsden Pacific Toy Train Museum. I designed the paint scheme to evoke the Sonoran Desert, with the desert tan and red rock colors. I still need to print some decals and clear-coat it, then I'll donate it. 

Lionel SD60 - Oakway Leasing ( formerly CSX ) by Jeff Sohn

Williams "SD50f" - CN Zebra (Formerly Amtrak FP45)  by Kaslo Shops  

K-Line "GP38-2LW" - CN Zebra (formerly CNW Op Lifesaver GP38-2) by Kaslo Shops

Weaver GP38-2 - Grand Trunk Western (formerly Conrail) by Me.

The 917 was one of the Lost Engines of Roanoke. A gentleman on the OGR Forum sold me this Weaver model. My friend Walt repainted and relettered it.

My attempt at the A&WP 290 - I bought this K-line Pacific already weathered - but was able to match the weathering from where I stripped it to the metal to re-letter it.  Pretty pleased.  I know it ain't dead on, but it is close.  Especially for the first try.  It is my favorite locomotive and I wish K-line was still in business.  I just bought an MTH Mikado that I plan to changing over to Frisco #4018.  They look pretty close too.  I wouldn't mind getting one of those Weaver 2-8-0's an re-lettering it as the Southern #630 and moving the belt to the front of the boiler - that would be closer than what Lionel just put out! 

My O-gauge White Pass engines.

Here's my latest, converted a Lionel Southern 4-8-2 Mountain to a Seaboard Air Line Class M2 Mountain.

From this:

To this:

In addition to building a new brass Vanderbilt tender (using 2" diameter brass bar rail tubing), I also moved the bell, domes, and made new running boards for the boiler.  Repainted using some automotive spray paint I got at Pep Boys and Champ decals.

The rest of my steamers are BPRC, so this one got the same treatment:

That's the on/off switch and charging jack, the receiver is inside the piece of yellow (heat shrink) you see tucked behind the board.  The 9.6v 2000Mah NiMh battery is inside the tenders water tank, accessed by popping off the rear of the tank if need be.  The coal load is a piece of foam rubber:

This is my only Lionel steam engine (I had an old Scout I gave to my grandson) and is quickly becoming my favorite.  Best slow speed steamer I have, even beating out my Williams brass 4-8-4 N&W 611.

I need to add sand dome piping and 2 tool boxes to the tender.  I was surprised the brass tender is lighter than the heavy diecast original Lionel tender.

Marx 1666 with a few extra details, Lionel tender and homemade decals pretending to be a Norfolk & Western K class loco...

Marx Commodore Vanderbilt redone in two-tone copper as the Liberty Lines "Copper Cannonball"

Repainted Marx 999 with 7" tin Nickle Plate Road tender converted from 4 wheels to 8...