Model Railroading > D&H Custom Painted Models

Here are some models I custom painted the GP38-2 and added additional detail parts and factory painted the 2 Alco 420's custom weather and details.  The model in the pictures are 99 percent done just needed couplers.  The models has been delivery to my dear close friends.

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Love the GP38-2.  What a work of art!  Great job and thanks for sharing!

Shannon Crabtree
Fredericksburg, VA
Virginia Midland Railroad Blog

Ken,

Great work.  These look great.

Jeff Smith
Lakewood, CA
RailMaster Hobbies

#7324 looks just like the real thing after it had seen better days.

awesome work what kind of paint did you use

Beautiful!!
Was that one of the units that went to CSX?

Uncle Joe

Ah!  They look terrible- spot on!
Nicely done!
SR

BEAUTIFUL modeling Ken!  That Geep is just stunning.  Very nicely done!

Joe Atkinson
Council Bluffs, IA
www.iaisrailfans.org/../Sub4WestEnd

Well, we hate to see the old D&H look like this, but it did! Excellent weathering work!

Tom Y

Love that first one!
 

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

Fantastic weathering work.

Prototype pics of the 7324 looking exactly like the model;
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=827967
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1103098
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3032657

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

I want to build one of that GP38-2.  I have some pictures of it looking exactly like that.  Great job!
 

Am I to believe that the actual locomotive was painted blue but then the blue paint peeled off to reveal the red?? Wow!! You're model is downright excellent!!!

Knockout weathering (from somebody who spent a whole lot of time looking at the real ones...)

how does someone go about becoming a dear close friend?  :)

That's how it happened.

CSX_ENG Wrote:
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> Am I to believe that the actual locomotive was
> painted blue but then the blue paint peeled off to
> reveal the red?? Wow!! You're model is downright
> excellent!!!

Doug Wetherhold
Macungie, PA

As someone who spent a lot of time around these units back in the days when they looked like this, all I can say is "wow." In my 40+ years of model railroading I don't think I have ever seen such a complex look pulled off to this level... ever!

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Sweet Grime!

7324: Modeling genius!!!
Magnificent!!

Yes, the 7324 model is an outstanding representation of the real thing. I don't think I've ever seen peeled/washed-off paint rendered so well. This would represent its appearance before Guilford repainted and renumbered it to D&H 231 in late 1987 or early 1988.

Unless I'm mistaken, the 7324 should now be known as CP7312, formerly D&H7312 from the three GP38-2s rebuilt at Mountain Top, Pa., in 1990. The locomotives that went to CSX were GP39-2s that began life as Reading 3401-3420, were renumbered to D&H 7401-7420, but then were jumbled around in sequence because of their partial renumbering by Guilford into the D&H 370-389 series. Some, but not all, of the 12 D&H/ex-LV GP38-2s were also renumbered by Guilford into a D&H 220-231 series. When the Mountain Top rebuilds -- four GP39-2s and three GP38-2s -- were done, the GP39-2s were given their previous D&H numbers but the GP38-2s were slotted into a new series of D&H7303-7312 (two having already been retired). CP finished renumbering the D&H GP38-2's into that series when it completed its acquisition of D&H, while allowing the GP39-2s to go to CSX. CSX assigned its number series, 4300-4319, to the GP39-2s in order of the numbers those units had when it got them, so the ones carrying numbers in the Guilford 370-389 series were lowest.