conrail rs-11

[rs2mike]

Stock atlas rs-11 with dcc added and led lights added. Weathered and sold.

[Rudy Garbely]

Nice weathering. I especially love the trucks and fuel tank.

You may want to consider painting the handrails and horn Conrail blue. I recommend hitting them with a spray coat of automotive adhesive promoter first. Once you get the blue on them, it will greatly enhance the looks of the engine. Also, missing numberboards?

[rs2mike]

Thanks rudy. The numberboards were present when I sold it. This must have been before it was done. I must have erased the wrong pics. The engine I looked up online had black railing and I could not see the horns. This was a buy and flip and sell unit to get some extra cash for the bills.

[alcors1]

this looks like an older Kato Atlas model due to it having those one piece grab irons. I love RS-11's, I got one complete and just about to start another one (espee, it will be a kato, so I have to cut all those plastic one piece gab irons of and put in DA grab irons). After this one I have a new Atlas undec I got from ebay for cheap, this will be a BN, I do not model BN at home, but the club I plan to join runs BN and SP.

[rs2mike]

Yeah I have a newer rs-11 undecorated as well. Virtually the same as the old one except for the light bars I think.

[icghogger]

H-m-m-m, flippin' Alcos......sounds pretty harsh...but profitable! ;D

[poweredby251]

The newer ones have the corrected wheelbase as well. The original (Kato) version used the same frame as the Atlas RS-3 which has a slightly shorter truck spacing. The newer units correct that.

John

Mar 16, 2010 19:33:42 GMT -5 rs2mike said:

Yeah I have a newer rs-11 undecorated as well. Virtually the same as the old one except for the light bars I think.