11-29-2025, 03:17 PM
While taking a break from doing some research on the scale test car, I have been busy late at night on my phone doing some more research on another unique and odd locomotive that Conrail only had one of that I can find. It is the rebuilt RS3M locomotive. It caught my attention a couple weeks ago while I was browsing on the Conrail photo archive website. I thought to myself how cool it looked and even though it was stored by 1983, I figured why not build it and have it sitting in the stored line of locomotives that will eventually be part of the layout. I have started to build the long porch that is on the front of the locomotive. The cab is left over from the RS11 shell that bruce had sent me so that became the donor cab and the former NYC RS3 shell will complete the rear of the body. I will need to make some minor changes to the cab and the shell. Two exhaust stacks will need to be scratch built along with raising the top of the shell up some but that is something simple. Well enough chitchat, below is the progress I have done so far.
Matt
I can smell a steam post ten blocks away and when I do clear the tracks because the steam express will be hi ballin through
Conrail's Blairsville Cutoff - A Fictitious Alternative Route Over The Allegheny Mountains From Blairsville, Pa to Cresson, Pa
I can smell a steam post ten blocks away and when I do clear the tracks because the steam express will be hi ballin through
Conrail's Blairsville Cutoff - A Fictitious Alternative Route Over The Allegheny Mountains From Blairsville, Pa to Cresson, Pa