project with him by e-mail, and came to the conclusion that I
needed to acquire some parts to get where I wanted to be. My
intention was to have two shells for the one engine and switch
them back and forth to run two different trains. Todd con-
vinced me that a complete and proper City of Miami paint job
included the trucks on the engine, which would be the wrong
color for the engine if it was running the IC shell.
I needed another E6A
engine with any shell on
it. So, it was off to e-bay
again. Within about
a month or so, I had
acquired a Seaboard E6A.
The IC E6A #4003 was
now to go off and form
the nucleus of a Panama
Limited train.
While Todd was an expert
at painting certain color
schemes, he had no abil-
ity to do any DCC work
on the engine. I went to
a local train hobby shop
(Happy Hobo Trains,
Tampa, FL - RIP - 2011)
and asked about getting
someone to add DCC to
one or more engines for
me. I was put in contact
with Carl Marchand (Suncoast Model Railroad Club) who would
not only do that work for hire, but also does seminars at local
train shows teaching others to do it. It took several months pass-
ing the engines back and forth to get the 7 engines I have done
to date.
City of Miami - 7
16: The City of Miami on its
run to Miami.
16
MRH-Jul 2013
