RMT (Ready-Made-Trains) too much fantasy or not?

No reason why your RR couldn't have a custom engine built, like an RMT.

I assume you are talking about the RMT Beeps. There are quite a few custom, shop built, modified engines in the real world. If I didn't know better I could easily assume these were models of real engines. The detail is quite good, especially for the price point. Wire handrails, drop down gang planks, and chains across the railings. Unless you are wanting only semi scale engines, of course you might not be asking this question, the beeps would IMHO look right at home in switching duties. Run alone, not mu'ed they don't really like Lionel switchs, but I have no experience with other brands. But they come with connectors so you can run several together.

The RMT Beep isn't based on any prototype beyond looking like a "baby Geep", hence the name.

Brookville Locomotive produced something they call a BLO-6 that resembles the Beep, though it's looks are closer to a chopped down version of European road-switchers:

---PCJ

A very nice looking engine regardless of its prototypicality. The sample in the photo by rail ride almost looks like a real scene!

Don

I've written Brookville several times to find out more about their small loco, but have never heard back.  Regardless, BEEPs are good little engines.  A lot of fun.  I have a bunch.

I like the little boogers, and I like the Bangs. Soon, I will have some added to my fleet...

Actually, the Brookville looks more like a chopped version of the Alco C415:

Rusty

Remember the first rule of model railroading.

It's your RR, run it any way you like!

That's because it is a prototype photo

---PCJ

I think that is a picture of the actual, real loco.  I have that same photo of a real one and have wanted to modified a BEEP to look just like it, for some time. 

I think the RMT novelty stuff is the dumbest thing ever. But the sad fact is that I don't rule the model railroading universe, so you are all allowed to buy whatever makes you happy....

I'll just have to learn to live with it.

Jeff C

I think the BLO-6 is a real locomotive, this is a picture from rrpicturearchives.net, they have several shots of it.

The Beep novelty goes back to the 1950's...

Rusty

They are a real locomotive.  The current version is called the DES-70 (diesel electric switcher 70 - it weighs about 70 tons), but I really can't find out much about it.  

This is a link to my posted a while back on the Real Trains Forum hoping someone could help me out.  

https://ogrforum.com/topic/brookville-des-70b

This is a lilnk to all I can find out about it. 

http://www.brookvillecorp.com/locomotive-freight.asp

If you didn't know better, you would swear this must be a modern version of something that started out decades ago in production as what a BEEP models.  

I have faith Lee, you can make one of them out of a BEEP.

I am not that into the RMT engines but I have a rail diesel car from RMT that runs really well. Also bought some hopper cars from RMT as most other companies don't carry much in the Reading Lines name.

I am waiting for RMT to come out with a Reading & Northern diesel engine, then I will consider buying an engine from RMT.

Lee Fritz

Frequently - no, I'm going to say "usually" - when someone posts a question that

goes "...did ABC RR ever use any locos something like the new XYZ Models turbine

switcher? I'd like to use one in my coal mine area..." there is at least one maddening reply that goes: "It's your RR; run it any way that you'd like!".

This is not helpful; this is not an answer. Also, he knows that it is his RR, of course. He paid for it.

What he wants is an informed opinion concerning a plausible practice that has caught his imagination. It is, indeed, his RR, and the way "he wants to run it" is in a way that at

least emulates reality. Some may want to switch the docks with Thomas the Tank, but

others want "our RR's" to at least approximate the real world. That's the pleasure of

it for "guys like that".

I'd be happy to see more fantasy stuff. This hobby gets too serious sometimes. It seems some people forget how to have fun.

don't take life too seriously, you won't get out of it alive

I guess that would have some significance to my thinking that it looked real! I guess I should wear my glasses when viewing photos.

Don

I truly enjoy threads like this. The best part is when those like "XXXX" get a little excited . It's time to take a "chill pill" and relax. Those who perform the 'monster mash" With their little steamers or their special little diesel engines. These are the folks who I admire .

Then there's the folks who buy damaged tinplate pieces. And turn them into small works of art. With creative folks like those above there will never be a shortage of the mighty little works of art .

This is my bashed Beep that the DKK&S uses for switching and short runs.

Well, I won't write again.  Three times is enough.  But it would be fun to make a model of a DES-70B. I do wish I could get dimensions of it, etc.  If its only 70 tons it is probably actaully smaller than a BEEP is (scale) I would think.

Lee,

I am not sure if you wanted information on this particular Brookville 2-axle switcher or 2-axle switchers in general. I am sending you links to the pdf brochures of 2-axle switchers made by the Swiss manufacturer, Stadler. I am also sending you links for a 3-axle switcher made by Vossloh. Both Stadler & Vossloh brochures contain 2-D sketches of the switchers. You could take a screenshot of the sketches, import it into AutoCAD & draw lines / curves over the pixels. That would give you a vector image. The links also have the major dimensions that you could use to scale the image, and then modify to use as a starting point to come up with a scale model of your own switcher.

http://www.stadlerrail.com/med.../Ee_922_e_100210.pdf

http://www.stadlerrail.com/med...loads/DL2340512e.pdf

http://www.vossloh-locomotives...roschuere_DE_ENG.pdf

http://www.vossloh-locomotives.../references/g6.html#

These are just my opinion,

Thanks,

Naveen Rajan

Thank you.  This will be useful.

RMT could make a body of this and place it ton the Beep drive.

I've seen a very similar, if not the same, engine at the yards on the waterfront in Philly off of Delaware avenue about a mile east of the stadiums.

--Greg

If somebody made a Brookville shell to go on a Beep, I would buy one.

Even in a fantasy paint scheme.

Oh, me too, that is a great idea!