Show us A Picture of your Hybird Train Engine

Dear Charlie,

I don't have a HYBRID DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE to share any photos of, but I really like what you have done with these two engines.  I like the paint job on the second engine and thanks for sharing the history behind the railroad where you used to work.

Killian

Union Pacific Big Boy - http://youtu.be/e9LRVWq_exE

VETERANS HOME - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Gladly!

This is a Bob Gale Super Classic Reading T-1 that I bought frrom Phil Klopp. Before scale locomotives were available, Bob kitbashed small Lionel locomotives to make everything from steam and diesel switchers to near-scale GG1's and Big Boys. Bob lived in Horsham, PA. The TCA Quarterly featured his locomotives on the cover and an article about him (around 1982, I think). Anyone know for certain?

Here is a basket case 2056 custom painted and detailed as 2124. She won a blue ribbon in the Fantasy category of the TCA Standards Committee Restoration de Elegance at York. Two 1666T tenders were spliced to make the long, graceful tender (26 tons, 19,000 gal.).

Bob Gale completed this Reading T-1 (2102) in the mid-1980's. She heads an Iron Horse Ramble on the Christmas Putz in The Lutheran Home at Topton. She is barely visible on the left. OGR published an article about the Putz in Run 102. After we acquired her and a matching consist of Reading two-tone green Williams 60' Madison cars, OGR published another article with a closeup of her in Run 120.

Hi, Charlie

      You said that you had "the best running Marx of all." I'm intrigued. What makes it such a good runner? Marx trains RUN, and that little rascal most really be special!

Speaking of Marx, this is an old, pre- or post-war tinplate electric (I have a C8 pre-war wind up train my father got as a boy with the same basic body).  I wanted it to run through switches (the stock drivers have gear teeth right down inside the outer diamter than won't let it go through modern switches), and also run well, and since the Marx electric drive I had would do neither, I converted it to use the drive from a Lionel Percy - this photo shows it before the drivers were painted.  I also added a removable front axle truck (removed here) just because it looks good.  Good runner, but only fair puller but enough to tug 6 - 7 tinplate cars around my layout.

Here's a modified Lionel "44 tonner" shell on an early Atlas SW chassis fitted with a TAS TMCC driver board.

Very loosely based on this Niagara Junction prototype:

Jim

This was my original Lionel locomotive, the MKT 600.  After many repaints, it ended up the CL&W700 Woods switcher.

Sorry, couldn't resist

Nice looking "hybrid" locomotives. 

Well, it is a shur-nuff hybrid, all right.

For one thing being a diesel it has no front or rear trucks to derail.  The middle two wheels drive and the lead and following wheels are the same size and the drivers and do not seem to come off track.  It navigates the sharp 027 curves very well. 

The dog bone I refer to is shown below on the picture of my smaller control panel and involves seven Marx switches so not derailing is important.

Another thing we usually just run the engine through the dog bone without cars and it is very fast.  I have other Marx including 333, 666, 999 and 1095 diesels.  These two 1998 type diesels are just the best at this type of operation.

Charlie

Here is another hybird.  It is cheapy Lionel 961 diesel body with a Marx 999 engine motor.  I believe the 961 had a DC motor and would run only in forward of AC.

An easy conversion with lots of kid value now.

Charlie

Sorry, I couldn't resist, either...

Rusty

I was thinking along the same lines as Jake when I saw the thread but I like Rusty's thinking too.

Anyone got some new hybird engines the want to share about?

Charlie

The SWEEP. A SW/NW cab, GP long hood and MP15 frame. TMCC for control.

You mean something like this?

Photo belongs to it's proper owner. I just borrowed it from google

Swiss Electric-Steam

Jerry

I do not know if this is considered a hybrid ...

A Reading MPC shell mounted on a postwar 623 frame. I bought this loco from Bill Barkby about 24 years ago out of a huge collection that came out of Buffalo NY.

There was a lot of custom painted stuff in it...Bill mentioned that most of the collection came out of Spoonleys.

Somebody did a nice job on the frame matching the paint.

Or these... 

A russian Locomotive atop a missile carrier frame.

An Electric Rotary, in Sweden.

How could one forget this?