{"id":215,"date":"2014-06-22T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2021-06-24T20:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:22:56","slug":"a-rs-2-for-the-grand-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"A RS-2 for the Grand Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This brass Schorr RS-2 model is one that came to me in great shape overall, with a very nice paint job and couplers mounted, but it had no drive and only one truck mount (under the long hood&#8211;and that mount with a truck still in a raw brass finish).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS2-caboose.jpg?resize=640%2C313&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS2-caboose.jpg?resize=1024%2C501&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS2-caboose.jpg?resize=300%2C147&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS2-caboose.jpg?resize=768%2C376&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS2-caboose.jpg?w=1339&amp;ssl=1 1339w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS2-caboose.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have had this model for a while now and have mulled over my options a few times. I was thinking to try to power it, but I finally decided not to. I was working over two of my dummy diesels with better trucks, and realized this model would also make a great dummy engine. I have a bunch of extra Schorr metal bolsters and they fit the model perfectly for mounting the truck under the cab. A bit of paint on the trucks and the model was good to go! A quick fix that turned a model that looked a little sad with its one unpainted truck into a real beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the model in the photo is a matching Schorr caboose. Both were beautifully painted by William Gilbert for his road. These were both part of the Schorr line of Japanese brass imports in American OO.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And another RS-2 came to me from William Gilbert with this model, which has a drive but needs a lot of work and the paint was partially stripped. Be watching the blog for more; I am stripping the paint now and have begun working out a new drive based on Athearn parts. My goal is to turn that model into a smooth-running approximation of an ATSF RSD-4 in American OO. A summer project; more on that another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS-2-Gilbert.jpg?resize=640%2C358&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS-2-Gilbert.jpg?w=815&amp;ssl=1 815w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS-2-Gilbert.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS-2-Gilbert.jpg?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE: And I found this photo, not the sharpest, but showing the engine on his layout. Several of the cars seen are also in my collection today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brass Schorr RS-2 model is one that came to me in great shape overall, with a very nice paint job and couplers mounted, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schorr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Schorr-RS2-caboose.jpg?fit=1339%2C655&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}