RS3 to RS4: To Create a Different Milwaukee Road Switcher
By Mike Stella
Being the World’s Greatest Lionel Collector and the World’s Biggest Milwaukee Road Fan, I sometimes “create” things that the Lionel factory could have done but chose not to.
Taking a #18833 Milwaukee Road RS3 from 1994, I swapped the running gear with a Seaboard RS4, and came up with a new Milwaukee Road RS4 locomotive that runs in tandem with another RS3.
Of course, I also ended up with a Seaboard RS3 on B-B trucks that now has joined my vast collection of new era diesels. This new combination of road units would look great on a branch line if I had a branch line?
Lionel Lines (The Largest Lionel Railroad on my Block) has a 6 scale mile long Main Line and the planned Branch Line enters a tunnel but never comes out. I will say you can “hide” a 50 car coal train in that tunnel! It is located under “hallow mountain” named for obvious reasons.
I think it would be great if a few TCA members sent in pictures and a story about some things they have “created” for their railroads.
Until then, Happy Collecting, Operating, and Kitbashing.