Soo Line put B-B trucks underneath this unit in the early 1960's. If 371 ever worked in Marshfield, it was done when she was still a real RSC2 with A1A-A1A trucks, and that was long before I was born. They kept her squirreled away at North Fond du Lac and Shoreham Yard where shop forces could keep an eye on it. This is another example of allowing my modelling desires to get away from me. The only thing missing is a casting of the brake cut-off on this side behind (this is front) the cab. The Bare Carbody filters are black decal, cut to fit, cut to size, left-over bits from the word "LINE" on a Microscale Soo Line decal set. That square radiator housing on top at the front and the duct work along the top are experiences for a Novel, believe me. This is a Kato model, and I worked from photographs of the real 371 to build it. THE model everyone needs on their Soo Line layout, RSC2/RS2 # 371. Good day all the way around for everyone!Īnother one, and an Alco.
EYE CANDY MARSHFIELD UPGRADE
I got to ride AND then watch the 375 ROAR past again at 10 MPH going upgrade with 1870 tons, ear and eye candy!Īnd the train crew got an extra day's pay for stalling. Dad felt bad about making the train stall for a couple hours afterwards he kept saying, over and over, "I shoulda had them drop you off at School House Road". Consequently, the train backed alllllll the way back in to Marshfield to the Junction Switch and made a "Run" for it. The Engineer was Bob Cable.ĭropping me at MP3 was not the best thing to do, since it was in the midst of the long grade from MP1 to MP4. 18 100-ton cars of Ballast and Caboose, and Dad's idea was to have them drop me off at MP3, which is County Highway ' Y ' west of Marshfield. I got talked into this by Dad and Conductor Bill Wade. I rode the real 375 from the Marshfield Depot to MP 3 on the Greenwood Line in the spring of 1975, when the Soo was "Fixing Up" the Greenwood Line. The real 375-378 had small fuel tanks, and now that I'm going to school in Machine Tool, I have access to Milling Machines to do the job. Not 100% correct at this point, I need to do a little fuel tank work on it. My model of Soo GP7 # 375, a Proto-2000 model. The drives are about the same as the Alco S2 I sent earlier. It wasn't much of a chore for them to pull 50 cars! I wouldn't do that very often, but, one in a while, you like to see what the upper limits for your engines are. These Walthers/Roco F-M's are great pullers. I have a Joe Stauber shot of the real 1052 idling away in front of the C&NW Marshfield Depot, and like the 1050, I worked from that.Īll of the weathering on the carbody is done with chalks. One o' these days, I gotta put the all-weather window back on, and the sunshade on this side.Īnother C&NW F-M Switcher, dressed with Ball n' Bar Herald. I know the C&NW used Alco S-series switch engines in Marshfield, but they were mostly banished from around here by 1970. I can barely remember the real thing working for the C&NW in Marshfield, and I can't tell you if it was the 1027 for certain. I could grab 25 cars with it and waltz off down the yard lead with them and start sorting out a train. This is an Atlas model, a good little puller! I used to like to use it when the Club layout still included the Yard modules. One of the older C&NW models I have is this Alco S2 Switcher.
There are a few things I don't care for on it, like the thickness of the handrails, but it turned out and I guess that's what counts. I happen to have a Joe Stauber photo of the real 1050 idling away in front of the C&NW Marshfield Depot, and I used that to build my model. I've built a few C&NW F-M's including Switchers. I have a soft spot in my head.er, HEART, for Fairbanks-Morse power.
The only thing I dislike is that the AHM/Roco model sits too low and you have to shim the sh*t out of the trucks to get the couplers to match a height gage. They need a little work to make them close, but not much. The model is a dead-ringer for the first 15 Wide Vision Cabooses the Soo Line bought. This is a caboose built from an old AHM/ROCO model, now long discontinued.
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