Riceland Industies gets their switcher.

After the first couple of operating sessions, it was thought that Riceland Industries should have it's own switcher.  Not that they have a ton of cars to move, but more so to reduce the amount of work for the Haskell local.  This also created a quick and easy job if a crew was standing around waiting for a call or where a newbie could wet their feet if they felt intimidated with any of the other jobs.

This is an Atlas Baldwin VO-1000 that started out as Cotton Belt # 1018.  

I removed the short stock stacks, replaced them with the taller stacks, rubbed off the lettering and printed the Riceland logo.  

The weathering was done using Tamiya's white weathering powered to give it a faded look, then went after it with several coats of artist oils and finished it off with a dusting of bragdon powders.

I installed a TCS VO-1000 DCC chip and set the speed table for a lowered the top end speed.

To answer a recent comment on how I made the Riceland Logo:
Nice job Allen! Tell us more about how you printed and applied the logo. Do you have one of the old ALPS printers that can print white?

Thanks Dave!
Yes I do have an Alps printer but that is not how made this decal. I started out with a sheet of white Inkjet decal paper.  I did a search on Google images for "Riceland Logo", copied it and brought it into CorelDraw.  Created a box and colored it blue.  Then I snooped through my collection of Fonts until I found one that was close and overlaid it on the blue box so when I printed it with my inkjet, the white decal paper showed through.

I then sprayed several light coats of Floquil Crystal Coat to seal the image then trimmed it and applied it like a normal decal.  The cab number was just from a leftover decal sheet that fit my liking.