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Patrick Martin has modeled the entire American Freedom Train in HO scale. The work is all his own work; while most folks get a hand with one or two cars, this is all Patrick. Patrick quietly debuted the model at Trainfest in Milwaukee November 8 & 9, 2008 -- quite a ways from his Illinois home. It wasn't more than a couple days before a YouTube video showed up featuring his model -- and news about it spread fast. Here are some photos of his work and some notes on his approach... |
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Patrick's model at Trainfest in Milwaukee. |
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AFT Car 111 An IHC six door baggage car. |
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AFT Car 200 Based on a Lionel AFT showcase car with two of the large windows filled in and the third filled in with grillwork. (The editor's favorite. And a clever use of a showcase car.) |
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Here's how 200 came together from a showcase car. |
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Two
of the openings on each side were filled in with styrene, backed
with I-beams, and the seams filled with Squadron Green Putty and
sanded smooth.
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AFT Car 201 A Rivarossi streamlined sleeper |
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AFT Car 202 A Bethlehem Car Works Reading combine. |
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AFT Car 203, 204 Athearn heavyweight round roof coaches. |
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AFT Car 205 A stock Lionel observation car with detail paint. |
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AFT Car 206 Admittedly a fantasy car, Patrick isn't the first to create an AFT dome! He used a Con-Cor 72' dome, in keeping with the length of most of the other cars on the train. (Actually, a dome car does show up in a concept painting for the real train, so this isn't too far off base.) |
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AFT T-1 and aux tender A Precision Craft T-1 model. Aux tender is a Rivarossi tender with decals made from Microscale red and white stripes, Walthers white stars and Woodland Scenics numbers. Note that the T-1 did not need a helper to pull the entire train! |
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AFT T-1 and aux tender |
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The
Locomotives
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Taking a shot at modeling the Preamble Express! A repainted Lionel AFT observation car. |
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Preamble.
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