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If you are interested in the equipment, keep in mind tri-rail has 3 GP style body units that have a pretty interesting background. Six, not three. Current designation is GP49H-3. I talked with a friend who works for Tri-Rail yesterday and he told me the DMU stuff is not currently operating. It is j...

Get an Atlas GP40-2 and a scrap Life-Like F40 shell along with a scrap Athearn F45 shell. Use the Atlas walkways as your base, with the cab of your choice in place. Replicate the hood length and height (up to the radiators, but not including the radiator area) with some 2mm styrene sheets. Cut the r...

Train Station Products roof came in today:



-Kurt

Kaslo cab doors from the VIA Rail F40PH-2 set:

http://www.kurtkaminer.com/f40ph2c_ho_66.jpg

http://www.kurtkaminer.com/f40ph2c_ho_67.jpg

-Kurt

Miniatures by Eric exhaust stack installed:

http://www.kurtkaminer.com/f40ph2c_ho_63.jpg

http://www.kurtkaminer.com/f40ph2c_ho_64.jpg

-Kurt

Kurt, are those bilevel cars smooth-sided or are there some ribs or corrugations? If you plan to add anything to the sides with liquid cement, remember to brace the sides somehow from the inside. It will help prevent warping over time. Also, if you're doing laser cutting for the sides, did you cons...

Kurt, I'd be happy to help with any 3D design or advice or marketing. You seem to have a good start on that loco model. I think there were drawings of those locos in MR or RMC a few years ago. I might still have them if you need them. I greatly appreciate it, Mike; I'll send an email soon with a fe...

If the plastic car sides can be produced at a much lower cost than the brass, especially using 3-D printing, the cost differential may make producing these practical. It would be a risk, but expanded products could help offset the cost of the 3-D Printer. If a corrugated-side car, I can see where 3...

Consider 3D ends for these, and even roofs if you can't get the core kits anymore. Remember, my CAD skills are at your disposal! Interesting you should mention CAD skills. Though I do not have a multi-purpose 3D program, I have been tinkering (I'm held up due to a lack of any photographs of the roo...

Mike, may I be the first to congratulate you.

Injection-molded commuter models from IHP is a milestone in the hobby - and I'm sure just the tip of many great things to come.

Best,

-Kurt

Kurt, Your HO car sides look very good. I do not model in HO. I model in N scale, 1950's-1960's passenger operations specifically. It seems to me that this process may be used to make affordable cars not normally available commercially. Especially types not widely used, but confined to one or two r...

They're not in my hands just yet, but thanks to a bit of work in Adobe Illustrator, and some assistance from a gentleman who does styrene milling, the very first HO-scale replicas of Hyundai-Rotem's CEM bi-levels now exist: http://www.kurtkaminer.com/hyundai_rotem.jpg Should be an interesting build....

Progress:

http://www.kurtkaminer.com/f40ph2c_ho_53.jpg

http://www.kurtkaminer.com/f40ph2c_ho_54.jpg

-Kurt

The Athearn (#90722, from the Genesis GP15) 2600 gallon fuel tank arrived today. The four-piece (reduced to three to clear the Atlas chassis) design is not only a perfect fit against the Atlas frame, it is also snug. Had to drill out holes for the motor mount access: http://www.kurtkaminer.com/f40ph...

Took care of the chassis-to-body mounting today. Not much meat to work with on the Atlas chassis, but it suffices:







-Kurt