I painted and weathered this Westinghouse electric that is one of three motors that serves copper mines. Don
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I took a Lionel 2023 and 2023B that I found at a train show, they were already repainted, striped them down to bear plastic with Scalecoat ll Wash Away Paint remover S56. I wasn't to thrilled with the product but I eventually got the job done. I primed the A & B units and spray painted them with Krylon Fusion Metallic Dark Metal. I could not find New York Central decals in O27 gauge so I used S gauge Decals for the lettering and vinyl pin stripping tape to create the New York Central lightning bolt....It's not perfect but they look good.
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Well, the 624 project I decided to strip, shell and frame. But got another project finished.
Got a barely running 8402 orphan, then found a railsounds orphan tender (waiting on new sound board to come in). Got the engine running nicely, touched up paint, removed the markings on both then did this. Decals didn't want to go over the rivets real well. So they didn't apply smoothly. I think my decal setting solutions are past there prime (had both bottles 20 years or so). Shot of flat coat helped. Haven't reattached the tender shell back on till the board gets in.
This isn't an accurate C&O A-16 4-4-0 Atlantic, but it's what Lionel created lol. I liked it. I have another 8402 that I swapped the shell from that tender onto a railsounds frame lol.
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These were completed a couple years ago, but these used to be Burlington/Santa Fe SD40-2's as is by Weaver Models in the early 90's. I picked them up for dirt cheap at York, and commissioned Harry Heike to custom paint them in AWVR markings (a la the 2010 film Unstoppable).
Harry did all the body repainting, lettering and renumbering. I repainted all the truck side frames, swapped in lower riding fuel tanks, added ERR Cruise/Railsounds, and added all the lighting - including the ditch lights above the pilots.
