Boxcab diesel

[Darren Hedges]

I am looking for drawings or elevation photo's of boxcab diesel loco's.
So far I have been unable to find any drawings or any decent elevation photo's so I am asking for your help.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have found plenty of photo's but they are all 3/4 views and not elevations.
Size and wheel arrangement is not important and neither is the scale of drawings.

My plan is to scratchbuild some thing to fit onto a Kato Shortie.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks in advance,
Darren.

[Chris Veitch]

Darren,

I presume you're talking about the old American gas-electric types by Alco, GE etc. If so, have you had a look at this site?

http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/boxcabdx.html

There's a fair bit of information there - it isn't brilliantly organised and takes a bit of digging to find stuff, but try searching for "model" on the first page as there links to a couple of modelling pages. There are definitely some dimensions and some (pretty rough) drawings, but there a lot of decent photos. I came across it when I started construction of my ancient Backwoods boxcab kit but that's another story (but one that'll hopefully appear on my blog at http://nearly-finished.blogspot.com/ at when I can be bothered to upload the photos).

Regards,

Chris

[Chris Veitch]

OK, if you insist...

I've posted some photos of my Backwoods boxcab to http://nearly-finished.blogspot.com/.

Hope this might give you a few ideas.

Regards,

Chris

[JulienW]

I am looking for drawings or elevation photo's of boxcab diesel loco's.
So far I have been unable to find any drawings or any decent elevation photo's so I am asking for your help.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have found plenty of photo's but they are all 3/4 views and not elevations.
Size and wheel arrangement is not important and neither is the scale of drawings.

My plan is to scratchbuild some thing to fit onto a Kato Shortie.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks in advance,
Darren.

Something that you might like to look into the plastic HOn3 kist produced by Grant Line in the states.  They do (or did) kits for a GE 23 ton and a 25 ton loco, one (23 tonner?) as a boxcab.  I recall that they supplied it as a non-motorised option and (from postings on the HOn30 Yahoo group) it is quite easy to fit the body to the Kato 4 wheel chassis,  and might be possible to lengthen the body slightly to fit the 8 wheel shorty chassis.  If you get a motorised kit that gan also have its gauge adjusted from 10.5 mm to 9 mm for 009 use.

Even if you can't get hold of the kit there are probably photos of them on the net (and even the prototype they were based on) to gain some inspiration for your own project.

[Darren Hedges]

Yes the Grandt Line boxcab looks great but as Draig Goch is built with quite a small loading gauge, just slightly larger than a Dundas Glyn Valley 4 wheeler, so I thought I would try to scratch build something to suit.

I can not produce a scale drawing to save my life but with a half decent elevation photo I could probably knock something up.

[garrywhiting]

Sorry for delay on this, but I've only just remembered this. Go to www.thomasayorke.com  he has produced a larger scale Boxcab that appears to be just the sort of loco that you are looking for. A 009 version would look great, I very much tempted myself to have a go.

On the site, click on what's new, under G  scale scroll down to Boxcab Diesel (sold out) and click to view.