After a long hiatus, in July 2014 I'm back working on the N scale RSD-15 Santa Fe project, on this modified Atlas B40-8 chassis.

This is the future Santa Fe "bookend" RSD-15 #800. I'd fortunately bought a bunch of N scale Mehano RSD-15 Conrail
shells last year directly from a seller in the former Yugoslavia - this is one of them. Soaking the shell in 91%
isoprophyl alcohol floated the paint off in a matter of 20 minutes or so, just took toothbrush and the
paint and Conrail lettering came right off. The result is the bare blue plastic shell that you see here.
You can see the Micro-Trains 1163 adapters for MT 1015 couplers installed on the ends of the shell.

Next steps will be painting in Santa Fe blue, followed by decals.

The windows will be done using donor plastic windshield set from a Model Power RSD-15 that I bought off eBay for parts.

Handrails will be: a) ACC cement on the stock (ugly) handrail
side pieces, but cut off the handrails b) do wire handrails using the "Randgust" method, same as was done on the U30CGs
elsewhere in my Pbase albums.