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Posted October 19th, 2008 by johnchic

Even with the explosion of products now available in O gauge, every once in a while I’ll run across a prototype photo of a piece of rolling stock that I would like to add to my collection but just isn’t made.  That is when I do a custom job.  I might purchase a similar piece or use an existing one that I don’t mind changing and repaint it and add decals.  This was the case when I wanted to add some Erie Lackawanna pieces to my scenery module for our modular club layout.  Since I modeled the Erie terminal building in Youngstown, I needed a couple of coaches and a switcher engine.  I had a New York Central coach that was already gray so all I needed to do was apply some EL decals.  Well I couldn’t find any passenger car sets so I used a diesel set to get the stripes.  I also had a P&LE coach that was not prototypical so I repainted it and once again used the diesel stripes.  For the switcher engine I used a NYC SW8 (which the Erie didn’t actually have) and applied the Erie decals.  Good enough for me.  My latest project was to repaint and decal two Lionel engine sounds boxcars. (one diesel, the other steam)  In order to use these cars behind different roadname engines I repainted and decaled them to  represent REA cars using Microscale products.  Since I had some leftovers I also freelanced an Erie Express Refrigerator car.  These can be seen in my custom paint jobs album along with some others.

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