Well, I was looking for a shop switcher for my future Milton Tank Car Company in Milton, PA. A friend of mine, John Roberts, had lettered this Yoder GE 45 Tonner for the Newport News Shipyard and Dry Dock Company. I plan to leave this lettering as John has passed. I will say they are evaluating it as a potential replacement for a steam engine (It is 1956 after all).
So, when I got the model, it was all flat black, including the interior, with the yellow railings. John has done a very nice job weathering it as well.
So, when I figured out how to disassemble it, I learned it had a cab interior. So, I set about glazing hte windows and adding a crew.
This engine has separate motors for each truck. It also has a rectifying circuit under the tanks. There was next to no space to work but I got the interior out, painted it and then added a crewman. He has white hair as I modeled for him.
So, here is the completed engine, ready to go to work at the tank car building plant.
Here is shot that shows me in the cab. you can see that the interior is now grey with a black control power. There are white painted dials on the panel.
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