Marx E7 Arizona Eastern Black Widow!

my latest project, an E7 in black widow scheme! Found a pic of an E8 formerly owned by the Arizona Eastern in excursion service so thought I'd try to duplicate it on an E7 shell. The shell originally had it's pilot cut off so I made a new one using clay mold and resin. Also drilled out the mars light and added dual headlights from evan designs. My daughter taped the silver for me, the stripes were made by spray painting white decal paper and cutting with a scrap booking cutter. Added a Marx power pull motor with a scissor coupler. The prototype now sits in Illinois Central type livery at the Illinois RR museum in running condition.

[@apostolicengineer8251]

Awesome work John! That's a beautiful locomotive 😊

[@jlebaron1]

thanks so much!

[@stevesoscaletrainchannel.1901]

John, very sharp paint scheme and your daughter did great on the silver, very nice.

[@jlebaron1]

thanks so much Steve!

[@myworld67]

Hey great looking engine John it is really a nice job. Keep Re-building and running those trains. "Gods Blessings Always" and "Happy Rails". GMan

[@jlebaron1]

thanks GMan! Happy rails to you too!

[@mytrainhobby5318]

Nice. If it even remotely looks like an SP unit I like it.
How large is your layout?

[@jlebaron1]

thanks! It's about 9x18, five mainlines

[@plunkervillerr1529]

Marx guy here, that`s a heap big eye opener.

[@jlebaron1]

thanks Marx Guy!