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Model Photos

F7A by Dan Bourque
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Models by Dewey Rowland
(thanks to Robert Ryan for submitting the photos)

Southern "rail train" built from scratchbuilt structures on top of Athearn flat
cars. Custom painted and decaled
Models by Jeff Kraker

Proto 2000 GP30 custom detailed, painted and weathered

Kitbashed Kato GP35 with custom detailing, painting and weathering

Custom detailed and weathered Atlas SD35
Models by Bobby Pitts

100T covered hopper kitbashed from two 70T Bowser covered hoppers, custom painted and
decaled.
Models by Bob Harpe

Several of Bob's amazing F-units. All models are detailed Highliners shells on
Stewart chassis. All models are custom painted and weathered.

GP38 2783 modified from an Atlas model. Note the small fuel tank and retrofit air
filter.

Modified Kato SD45 with a high short hood and custom painting and weathering.

Beautifully detailed and weathered Walthers 100T aggregate hopper.

Custom painted cabs built from Wright Trak resin kits.
Heavily modified Proto 2000 GP7 showing the fan and skirt modifications the Southern made
to these units in the '70s.
F7A from Stewart model
Models by Keith Clouse
SD24 (N Scale) kitbashed from Life-Like SD9
Models by Dan Bourque

GP30 modified from a low-nose Proto 2000 GP30
Heavily weathered F7A from InterMountain kit representing an F in its last years of
operation on the Southern
GP40X from RPP shell with many Cannon & Co. parts
In-process GP38 kitbashed from Athearn GP40-2 (cab, sub-base, and radiator doors painted
black but are Cannon & Co. parts)
Finished GP38 model, now equipped with a Digitrax Soundbug sound system with a 1"
speaker and cabinet crammed into the long hood
U23B kitbashed and narrowed from Athearn U33B kit
50T hoppers, one with extended sides, from Athearn kits
(see article in Sept/Oct Model
Railroading magazine)
100T "Big Red" hopper, scratchbuilt from styrene
70T triple hopper with "freshly-loaded" coal load from MDC kit
Ortner Rapid-Discharge hopper heavily kitbashed from MDC kit
Scale Test Car from Walthers kit
40' hatched-roof boxcar (for carrying Kaolin) kitbashed from InterMountain kit
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