Part 2 of 2:
Continuing the description from Part One:
As part of this effort, I had my stable of Genesis P40 diesels, MTH and WIlliams power/dummy pairs, redecorated into Phase V by a custom re-painter. As part of this commission I included a pair of fictional "CSX" A-T autoracks (MTH no 20-98332) to be re-done into a "what if" Phase V scheme as worn by the modern aluminum autoracks that replaced the 75-footers in real life. These locomotives were supplanted by a Williams by Bachmann (WBB) power/dummy set in factory-painted Phase V. Since I needed four motors to pull this monster train, I installed a WBB dummy power kit in the non-powered WBB unit.
The last bit of the project was completing the decoration of the two custom-painted auto carriers near the end of the train. I neglected to provide prototypical road numbers, and the painter ran out of the custom decals necessary for the "Auto Train" logo, so I located and finally started to use an ancient Roland SCP-85 vinyl-cutting machine I had on-hand (but never actually used) with a built-in scanner to produce the proper road numbers, reporting marks, and the Auto-Train logo. You can see a demonstration of this a few videos back in my channel.
While it's not the first model of the Auto-Train on KZitem (there are a couple in HO and N), it's the first time it's been done in O-Gauge to the extent that I did. The fact that the unique auto-carriers peculiar to this train have been available for a little more than a decade speaks to the complexity of assembling and running an oversized consist like this in 'O'. Take a look at the stats at the end of the video, it'll make you wonder how it "only" takes 14 volts to get this train moving.
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