Post by Santa Fe Sammy on Sept 12, 2009 8:10:56 GMT -5
Hey Gang,
This is my first post with pics so go easy on me!
I picked up a P2K GP38-2 for cheap several months back to represent one of the ex TP&W units on my ATSF roster. This was one of the units that came with the cab roof painted blue!
Since the locomotive looks pretty good out of the box, I set out to just do a minimalist detail job on this one just to help it look more at home with the rest of the ATSF units that work on my layout. I finally took the time over this past Labor Day weekend to fix it up with a few details - I figure this project took about 2 hours total. The only “surgery” I had to do was move the headlight to the nose. Then I added the A/C unit, sunshades, and antenna planes / antennas before respraying the roof - I got lucky and got a pretty close match with the factory paint.
I then renumbered it, weathered the trucks slightly, added the decoder, plow and couplers and now it’s ready to go to work.
This is my first post with pics so go easy on me!
I picked up a P2K GP38-2 for cheap several months back to represent one of the ex TP&W units on my ATSF roster. This was one of the units that came with the cab roof painted blue!
Since the locomotive looks pretty good out of the box, I set out to just do a minimalist detail job on this one just to help it look more at home with the rest of the ATSF units that work on my layout. I finally took the time over this past Labor Day weekend to fix it up with a few details - I figure this project took about 2 hours total. The only “surgery” I had to do was move the headlight to the nose. Then I added the A/C unit, sunshades, and antenna planes / antennas before respraying the roof - I got lucky and got a pretty close match with the factory paint.
I then renumbered it, weathered the trucks slightly, added the decoder, plow and couplers and now it’s ready to go to work.
