Joel - many thanks for the encouragement. Your efforts made it seem feasible in the first place, as the box-body Y-1 seems to be a lot easier to fabricate than the multiple curves of the GG-1. The many boxes and cylinders, electrical conduits and connections make it a very busy-looking item, and I have no doubt that Mr Plastruct will be kept busy.
I am lucky that my dear old pal, Joe E, who gave me the model in the fust place, has three or four of the latest H0 models for reference, as well a a gazillion piccies.
I do need to know the source of your pantagraphs, though.
The completed model, if I actually get around to it, will be in the order of 30 inches long, and I intend to use plexiglass for the car-body, in the same way as Richard Smith of Port Orford Coast Railroad fame uses it for outside structures, and as many bits as I can find from my local model airplane store - the triangular fillets along the edges of the roof were very easy to locate - airplane wing trailing edge! Another friend has a laser cutter and has promised me all the help I need to do the difficult profiling of certain parts like truck sides. Many parts will come from manufacturers here in yUK who provide for our busy Gauge 1 modellers - axle horn blocks and so on.
I'll have to make a serious list of what I can obtain and what I will have to make before I actually get going, but if it gets off the ground I will certainly undertake a builder's log.
Best wishes
tac
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