(Big Pix Warning) Hardly Workin': My Attempts to be a Contributing Member of Society

I'll probably plop them up on mediafire or something simple like that. Ultimately it will depend on if I use any scripts, sounds, or other parts that have rules regarding where they can be hosted. For the record let me make it clear, again before I get a dozen PMs, that I have no interest in joining any of these assorted third party groups out there.

Regarding the UP loco, I refer back to the mouse and cookie scenario with B-units.
 
Here's a small U25B update with what will likely be the first scheme I will put it in



and a look at the Blomberg A1A truck again to be used at a (much) later date

 
Mine too. In all seriousness though I am planning on C&O, CB&Q, Great Northern, L&N, N&W(ex-Wasbash units), and PC for these. Might branch off into Conrail and its predecessors (PRR, NYC, and NH), but I don't know. I'll need to go back and look, but they also appear to be pretty similar to the U25C, U28B, and U28C so it might not be out of the question to modify it into one of those models. Also, does anyone know what's going on in the back of these things behind the grills? Turning up photographs with the right angle and lighting to peak in there is proving to be difficult. I am working from this photograph, but it is a U25C so I am not 100% sure if the two look the same.
 
I wouldn't think they'd be too different, I think the only real difference between a U25B and a U25C is a couple of feet and extra axles. But if I happen to find what you're looking for I'll let you know.
 
Here we go. After looking through 9 pages of half decent U25B shots the L&N has cut me a break. How's this shot?
12'28'71 L&N 1614 NB Hammond,IN.jpg

Or maybe this?
SBD 1617.jpg
 
Looks pretty much the same. Thanks. That site takes ages for me to load if at all. As far as I can tell those two poles are supporting a pair of fans, but I don't really see a need to model them since no one ever looks at that angle anyways. You can sort of make them out here.
 
SCHOOL TIME! ring the bell!

U25B

With the U25B, If the unit had Dynamic brakes, you could see the brake grids thru the rear radiator mesh, if it did not, you just saw thru to the other side unimpeded, barring what the blower was blocking.....

Also, there were 2 phases to the U25B.... the differences were in the front windshield and nose....

Phase one had a one piece main windshield and a flat nose

Phase Two had a 2 piece main windshield and a sloped nose

Now, to really bake your noodle, the original Demo unit had a high nose and vertical ladders instead of stairwells. UP and Frisco bought some of their units like this.

U28B

The U28B had 2 phases....

The phase one U28B used the phase 2 U25B body......

The phase two U28B was similar except the "humps" on the back end are gone, the cab was moved forward and the nose shortened to the classic GE look we all know

If the unit had Dynamic brakes, you could see the brake grids thru the rear radiator mesh, if it did not, you just saw thru to the other side unimpeded, barring what the blower was blocking.....

U25C

Had a body similar to the U25B except the cab was moved forward and the nose was shortened to provide space behind the cab for a steam generator. The nose and cab position would carry thru the C36-7 model.

Phase one had the one piece windshield

Phase two had the 2 piece windshield

Unit was longer than the U25B

Same deal with the rear radiator mesh

U28C

The Phase one U28C used the Phase U25C body.

The Phase two U28C had a body similar to the Phase one, except the rear "Humps" were deleted.

Unit was longer than the U28B.

Same deal with the rear radiator mesh


Extra credit:

http://www.hosam.com/model/ge.html

http://www.ttnut.com/ge-u28-and-u30-info-t849.html

http://rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=13115


And that has been today's lecture, there will be a test later, I hope you took notes!
 
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Wow thank you. I always wondered what that was in the rear radiator screens on some of those units. Never would have guessed it was dynamic brake grids. Now I have to go back to the drawing board and reconfigure some stuff.
 
Getting a proper L&N logo was one of the hardest things so far. Also this shows a dynamic brake-less version with a nose light. Now if I would only stop procrastinating and finish the couplers, trucks, horns, and hoses.

 
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Here's something different:



Not really meant to be a cabview interior, but rather something to fill up the windows on a sleeper car so you aren't staring into an empty carbody from the outside. Based on a Budd SAL 10-6 sleeper. Now if only I had something to put outside of it.
 
I've been reworking the GP20 into a GP18 as a side project so I don't get all GP30'd to death.



I also salvaged this from the deadline since I'm always critically short in the caboose variety department. Cabooses get no love.

 
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