Ramon Rhodes has been purging older locomotives from his roster to reflect today’s BNSF high-capacity, fast moving mainline ma- chines. BNSF keeps its power clean, but road dust and grime accu- mulate on the trucks, roof and underbodies–as on Ramon’s models (above). ES4400AC’s like 5749 (InterMountain), AC4400CW’s (No, 871, Athearn) and GEVO units filled part of a table at Naperville along with his intermodal cars. Ramon upgrades details like hoses, antennas, m.u. covers, etc. The N scale C&NW station in Milwaukee (below) is an in-progress model (80% done). The site was laid out to scale by projecting aerial photos from 1958 onto plywood to posi- tion the 24 structures and streets correctly. More than 100 photos were used to replicate the depot and its surroundings, which are on two ten-foot Modutrak modules. The station is built on an acrylic core with styrene brick laminated to it; window muntins are drawn on the acrylic. This is the work of C&NWHS member Keith Kohlmann.
No plain GP7, Dennis Eggert’s C&NW 1559 (top) has a Proto 2000 body on an Atlas chassis, first generation EMD handrail stan- chions from Smokey Valley, Overland all- weather cab window, Cannon fans, scratch- built winterization hatch, modified fuel tank, and a generous handful of Detail Associ- ates, Details West and Hi-Tech parts. The weathering has clean areas where crews’ shoulders have rubbed against the hood. On his Phase V SW1 (above), Dennis replaced the stepped hood section on a Walthers model with a tapered piece from a Proto 2000 SW switcher. The headlights and radia- tor grille are from the same donor shell, and the front shutters are a Detail Associates part. NYC 63122 (below right) is a rebuild of a Tichy USRA rebuilt steel side boxcar by John Johnson. He took two ends from a Westerfield steel auto car and made a pat- tern for a 2/7/7 end, made the ladders and re- placed or refined the details (below).
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