Postby bob turner » Fri Nov 19, 2021 10:47 pm
All this was only seven months ago, and I sort of forgot that Maroon was looking for an A unit. Carey was selling one, I think last week, and it went for "reasonable." I think it is still in my watch list . . . yeah, final price $375, definitely early Max Gray with what appear to be All Nation gears, in CNW paint. Detail is not up to the level of the NYC B unit above, but still looks acceptable.
Maroon and I are collaborating on a hybrid of sorts - an Alco PA with an F-M nose. I will share a preliminary photo this weekend, and finished photo later. The plan is to make sure, if a PA nose ever sort of magically appears, that we can convert back. I will clamp and solder, without my usual brass screws that make assembly so permanent.
Sounds extremely unlikely that such a hybrid ever existed, but I may have noted somewhere that Milwaukee grafted an F3 nose onto a DL-109, greatly enhancing - er, somewhat lessening its ugliness. Who knows what this thing will look like - we shall find out!