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scratch building and Kit-Bashing Locomotives 8 SCRATCHBUILDING AND KIT-BUILDING LOCOMOTIVES By Phil Knife MMR With so many excellent ready-to-run locomotives available these days, especially in HO or OO scales, why should we bother to think of building our own? Considering the price of locomotive kits these days compared to those locos in boxes on the dealers shelves, a reluctance to build your own can be understood. But I can think of some very good reasons why we should be building our own locos, and these I am going to discuss in this presentation. Whether you have ever built a locomotive or not, let me encourage you to have a go, or at least give it some serious thought. Is the loco I want available off the shelf? If your layout is set in North America from, say, the late 1950 s to the present day then it is almost certain that all the locomotives will be diesels supplied by one of the major builders.

Scratch Building and Kit-Bashing Locomotives 8 for you, or build it yourself. This is the first and strongest argument for building your loco from a kit

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