GM&O F3

[buzz456]

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They only repainted three F3s into this nifty Illinois Central Gulf livery so I tried to bring these to life in some hand assigned numbers. One more beta with the correct numbers and some other suggestions Howard made and we should have them ready to go before next weekend I hope.

[cnwfan]

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[ET44C4]

Is that my old IC hopper repaint back there? I forgot I made one lol.

[philmoberg]

Just for you Phil.

Much obliged, sir. The memory of those hot, humid days is especially pleasant as I look out on the snow-covered back yard.

[buzz456]

I want to give Howard (cnwfan) a shout out for a great effort in working with me to make the finished product that I will be uploading. His effort was above and beyond in taking the time with this and his suggestions were all spot on.

[cnwfan]

I want to give Howard (cnwfan) a shout out for a great effort in working with me to make the finished product that I will be uploading. His effort was above and beyond in taking the time with this and his suggestions were all spot on.

Aw shucks. I'm just glad I was able to help out with another creation from... Buzz's Repaint Emporium! And along the way I got the ICG F unit that I've always wanted to model in HO scale, but now have in V scale. Thank you again Buzz for making this repaint, along with the GM&O repaints happen.

[cnwfan]

Is that my old IC hopper repaint back there? I forgot I made one lol.

Well... it's actually the one Buzz did using Searchlight's 100 ton hopper. But since you mentioned yours, I found it in the library and will install shortly. Thanks for the heads up!

[EngineerJohn]

Hey Buzz, what's your secret to getting those 4 digit number boards to look good?

[buzz456]

Hey Buzz, what's your secret to getting those 4 digit number boards to look good?

These are individually numbered using a child object that I got from Kevin (bnsfsubdivision) and use with his permission. These should go into the library this weekend. They will be in the SearchlightSimulations\FeatherRiver

[buzz456]

Apropos of the Pennsy units, it turns out only the first few were"chicken wire" F-3s. The rest appear to be identical to F-7s, apart from the number boards, which we're ignoring anyway. The A Units would have been 9500A-9529A, and the B Units would have been 9500B-9528B (even).

Phil, if you want these with the radio antennas on them I'm probably going to have to use the ones from HSC unless you have some other suggestion.

[philmoberg]

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Phil, if you want these with the radio antennas on them I'm probably going to have to use the ones from HSC unless you have some other suggestion.

Sorry to be so late getting back to you on this, Buzz. The HSC units were what I'd had in mind, although my original question was really hypothetical. Give that most of Pennsy's F-3s were really what we used to call F-5s, I'm wondering whether a simple renumbering of the HSC units might be more appropriate. In any case, there's no urgency, particularly if you have something more interesting/important in the pipeline. Thanks kindly, in any case.