Update

I threw out the old hood roof master and spent a couple days making a new one.  I was never really satisfied with the old one and when I wrote that I was going to have to" splice in a piece " to finish up the "B" unit it was just enough to push me over the edge. The new one is much better with a much better contour.  It is long enough to cover the "B" unit hood in one piece and all I have to do is cut one to fit the cab unit. All the roof details will be added after  casting so I can vary them.  All in all a much better approach. The roof was made with two laminations of styrene and then filled with Squadron Green and White alternately to get the final contour. The Green was applied then filed to shape.  The low spots were filled with White and filed to final shape. The contrasting colors help to determine where and how much to shape the piece. You might notice small gaps in the fit.  There is a slight warp in the piece which will be taken out when I glue it to its backer plate prior to casting the resin pieces.  The styrene tends to warp when worked or glued with solvent adhesives both of which happened in this case.

The drive train components have arrived minus the motor's.  Back ordered, but the flywheels, couplings, driveshafts and u-joints are now on hand. The last thing to aquire is the worm assemblies from Athearn and that should happen within the week.  Really cool, something that runs!!!

Anote about the link to the Layout Design and Construction Page.  There is nothing there yet except an old travel log my wife wrote years ago.  While fun to us you might not find it very interesting or think you got shunted off into cyberspace.  NOT.  There will be stuff as advertised shortly, I'm working on it complete with photo's, it'll just take some time. So hang in there and keep checking back and maybe next time our daughters Seattle trip will be missing and the Oregon Coast Railroad will be in its place.

The pictures show that the models have aquired a fuel tank/battery box combo and the jack pads are attached to the "B" unit.  The cab unit has had a lot of contour work and clean up done to the cab roof and the jack pads are assembled and ready to install. All the pilots are now installed with the coupler pockets but much detailing still remains to be done there.