NOTE: Though not all of my models have download pages, all files are for sale. Get in touch if you’re interested!
John Quincy Adams/Speed Merchant Talgo Trainsets
New Haven style FM P12-42 locomotives
One three-unit articulated Talgo-style coach. Each trainset consists of five coaches with a locomotive at each end.
Boston & Maine style locomotive body shell
The magnetic coupling system ensures reliable close coupling between the cars.
The full-width diaphragms are made from thin plastic sheets that flex as the cars round curves.
The innermost two-wheel trucks on each coach pivot slightly to keep the wheelsets more perpendicular to the track around curves. The trucks on the ends of the coaches also pivot for the same reason.
The John Quincy Adams and Speed Merchant trainsets were built by ACF and Fairbanks Morse in the mid 1950s at the peak of the lightweight streamliner craze. More information about the prototype can be found on the Streamliner Memories website.
Learn more about purchasing the STL and STEP files for this design here (HO scale).
New York Central Xplorer/New Haven Dan’l Webster
I was inspired to build this model after finding a Rapido Turbotrain in a hobby shop that I couldn’t afford. The shell and chassis of both the cars and locomotives were printed in PLA plastic with the trucks in UV cure plastic. I used a heavily modified Proto 2000 E-unit mechanism, which barely fits in these low-slung units. I was able to recreate the full-width diaphragms with thin flexible sheets of plastic which look great when the train rounds a curve. After completing the Xplorer consist, I got in touch with a New Haven modeler who wanted the Dan’l Webster. I simply printed another chassis and two new New Haven locomotive shells to convert the model to the new prototype.