Scale Train Drawings
Welcome to the Trainiax drawings page! This is a collection of drawings that I have been working on since late 2000.
Updates
2023-11-25
With a couple more RSD-12 drawings, I've reached my goal of 250 drawings for 2023. I'm hoping to continue adding more ALCO drawings in the remainder of the year.
2023-11-20
In one of the more noteworthy omissions from the drawings, in 23 years I have never drawn a 6-axle ALCO RSD-series locomotive in any scale. That changed today with the arrival of the RSD-12 in 1:18.
The first step started a week ago with the making of ALCO Tri-mount trucks. This was time-consuming but straightforward as I had several excellent ALCO mechanical diagrams to work from. The second step was to stretch the frame and hood on an existing RS-11 drawing - also straightforward since most of the other dimensions are the same.
The third step involved searching and sifting through hundreds of RSD-12 and RSD-15 photos to try to decipher the finer underframe details - which was the most time-consuming part. Unlike for previous ALCO models I've drawn, I don't have my own photos or direct measurements of an RSD-12.
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I haven't yet incorporated all the 1:55 drawings into the drawing search pages above. The remaining drawings are still listed on the older 1:55 pages:
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About the Drawings
- All of my drawings, painted or undecorated, are of real locomotives and rolling stock.
- All of my completed drawings are online, and they exist only as they appear here; I have no higher-resolution or vector versions.
- I do take requests for new drawings. I can never guarantee their completion, but I try to fill them out regularly.
Acknowledgements
My drawings would not be possible without the extensive contributions from many site viewers sharing photos, diagrams, phase details or corrections, and I am very belatedly publicly sharing my gratitude to those who have helped. (If you've sent me stuff and you're not on the list, please remind me!)
A special thank-you to
- Brian Bennett - who shared a supremely detailed SD40-2 roster with me that formed the basis for my drawings and phase descriptions of the entire EMD Dash-2 series
- Bruce Bridges - who has helped with innumerable roster details and spotting features, and without whom my drawings would contain at least 3 times as many errors or omissions
- Nick O'Dell - who shared extensive CSXT paint and lettering information and many locomotive detail photos
- Jones Rana - who sent me a huge collection of reference photos and drawings, including many ALCO mechanical diagrams
- James Walton - who forwarded a collection of nearly 2,000 detail photos that were invaluable in drawing several Canadian locomotive models
Thanks also to
- Philip Bushdiecker
- Jon Clark
- Dave Queener
- Bishop Smith
- Wayne Snyder
- Joseph J. Thomson
- Fernando Uribe
- Nick Wilson
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The drawings are freely available for personal use. For any forms of non-personal use (such as display on other websites) I would ask the following:
- Please provide credit in some way, such as my name and/or the URL of the Trainiax site.
- Please indicate if a drawing has been modified, such as adding to or modifying the label under the drawing. I count on unmodified labels to be indicative of my original drawings. (If you would like to match the original text, it's Arial 10 or 12 pt).
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