We need an NW-2 thread, with photos

[bob turner]

Can we do photos here, or do I need to pay Photobucket?

[ScaleCraft]

[R.K. Maroon]

I'll play. These are both GMC versions. The one on the right was sold to me by Jay Criswell some number of years ago:



I had these jumpered together back when the frogs on the club layout weren't powered. They ran well together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHHHf0EvINc

That video is from 2013. The equipment shown was fully half of all the O-scale I had back then. I should have cut-up my credit card and killed my eBay account right then and there.

Jim

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Can we do photos here,

No idea....

or do I need to pay Photobucket?

Waste of money; get an account with SmugMug

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Musty and dusty photo, but...........

[robert.]

Can we do photos here,

No idea....

or do I need to pay Photobucket?

Waste of money; get an account with SmugMug

i recently signed up with imgur. it's easy and so far free.

[bob turner]

Trial photo post:
Nope - you do not get to see my NW-2s. No great loss; you have seen them before. One has vinyl lettering - really makes the tiger stripe scheme pop!

[R.K. Maroon]

I may have a few photos of Bob's NW-2s in my own files. I will look. In the meantime, I have plenty:















Sorry about the fuzzy shot of the underside. I am not a huge AT&SF fan, in part because the ubiquity of warbonnet models, but I do think the blue and yellow freight scheme is a hard to argue with. One of my projects is to do an old doorstop FT set I have (not A&S -- maybe Jack Collier) in the blue and pale-yellow early cat-whiskers scheme. The B-unit even has the correct "fifth porthole" hostler's station. Microscale did the decals, so I have everything I need, if and when the project floats to the top of the queue.

Jim

[ScaleCraft]

How many of these things were produced anyway?
Late 40's with GM, then A-N until what, 70's?
Tens of thousands? Woody mentioned once there were 1,000 shells made by GM for the SW-1, sold only by A-N after the bankruptcy, so add those in...and in 2-rail we have 4 examples shown?

I always had an issue believing a post-war number of 1,000 SW-1's made. I think it was a whole lot less than that. You just never see them show up anywhere. Only one in person I have seen I think is mine, photo of one other.

Easy to MAKE one, but to find an original is rough.

Amazing.

[De Bruin]

Agree. until I saw your NP and Sarge's NYC versions I had no idea there was an SW-1 variant. Very cool model too.
Here's my PC version, I bought it in Dallas in 1982 from that second-hand tinplate dealer's shop across Bryan St from Bobbye Hall's. It was packed solid with lead weight and wired for three rail with center mounted the whiskers sticking out of slots cut into the tank at the bottom of the casting, hand painted SP black and orange. I repainted it in the same scheme, rewired it for overhead trolley with a roof mounted deck and lettered it Pacific Electric. That lasted as long as my trolley layout and I reworked it to as you see here after joining the DFWOSM club in 1986. A few decades later Jim provided me with an upgraded drive and wheel set to replace those wretched sintered wheels. It runs great now and can pull a surprising number of cars around Track World despite having no added car body weight anymore.

The RMCA has three of the AN NW-2's, below is the only one that runs at the moment, working as the Danville terminal switcher. I repainted it a few years ago and installed a roof led flasher which works very nicely using a power supply built by Dan Mansfield from a circuit plan published in MR in the late eighties. The other two both suffer from broken armature windings and have dead spots. awaiting new motors and likely repainting as well.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

..................rewired it for overhead trolley with a roof mounted deck and lettered it Pacific Electric.

Now that I'd like to see a photo of here!

[ScaleCraft]

Agree. until I saw your NP and Sarge's NYC versions I had no idea there was an SW-1 variant. Very cool model too.
Here's my PC version, I bought it in Dallas in 1982 from that second-hand tinplate dealer's shop across Bryan St from Bobbye Hall's. It was packed solid with lead weight and wired for three rail with center mounted the whiskers sticking out of slots cut into the tank at the bottom of the casting, hand painted SP black and orange. I repainted it in the same scheme, rewired it for overhead trolley with a roof mounted deck and lettered it Pacific Electric. That lasted as long as my trolley layout and I reworked it to as you see here after joining the DFWOSM club in 1986. A few decades later Jim provided me with an upgraded drive and wheel set to replace those wretched sintered wheels. It runs great now and can a pull surprising number of cars around Track World despite having no added car body weight anymore.

As long as you fully understood up front the PE diseasemals had pantographs for signalling.....never for power. According to all I have read for 60 years or more. Imagine the controls needed to run both types of power in that carbody.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Agree. until I saw your NP and Sarge's NYC versions I had no idea there was an SW-1 variant. Very cool model too.
Here's my PC version, I bought it in Dallas in 1982 from that second-hand tinplate dealer's shop across Bryan St from Bobbye Hall's. It was packed solid with lead weight and wired for three rail with center mounted the whiskers sticking out of slots cut into the tank at the bottom of the casting, hand painted SP black and orange. I repainted it in the same scheme, rewired it for overhead trolley with a roof mounted deck and lettered it Pacific Electric. That lasted as long as my trolley layout and I reworked it to as you see here after joining the DFWOSM club in 1986. A few decades later Jim provided me with an upgraded drive and wheel set to replace those wretched sintered wheels. It runs great now and can a pull surprising number of cars around Track World despite having no added car body weight anymore.

As long as you fully understood up front the PE diseasemals had pantographs for signalling.....never for power. According to all I have read for 60 years or more. Imagine the controls needed to run both types of power in that carbody.

True for the PE. Others did have what looked fully like small diesel locos that were totally overhead wire operation.

[ScaleCraft]

That's why I very carefully snuck that "PE" into the post!

On the SW-1, Pete, they left off the front stack, inserted the bell into that hole, and didn't drill a bell mounting hole separately. Remove the radiator piece, chop the shell CAREFULLY back to allow the sides to extend for the front box, shape, shorten the radiator piece from the bottom, re-install, and form a piece of curved brass to go from bottom of chopped radiator piece to original joint at floor/frame. If I recall, there are lips on each end that clip into and under to hold in place and to shape.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That's why I very carefully snuck that "PE" into the post!

I was just reading through a chapter on these last night thinking that if I could find a decent small diesel shell I'd have a place to make use of a pantograph just for the fun of it all.