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 Posted - June 16 2019 : 1:21:05 PM
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Cadetpwr is showing a taste of his remarkable 19th Century Steam Collection. I'd like to see if we can
get an Early Steam Thread going...
https://youtu.be/0D9OSgz5xTg
https://youtu.be/MCTotVdXUg4
I've got plans and parts for a John Bull micro layout in the works, but no time to get on with it,
just yet. Toptrain has done some magnificent scratch built work on very early New Jersey Steam,
and that one is a show case.
This one here is the iconic Stephenson's Rocket of 1827, built by Triang. I am told that while it runs on
OO, and HO, track, it is actually scaled to Sn3!
The three pole motor, an out of production Hornby x500 was not very durable.
I ran this locomotive a lot at exhibition,
(Photo from 1995, that's my new bride and our first baby, who is now 25 and just
graduated school).
and it eventually just wore out its brushes. Highway91 is sending me a new set, and if that fixes it, then great. Otherwise I have an idea to see if I can fit in a short wheel
base powered bogie into a coach and make it a coach driven set.
Edited by - Chops124 on June 16 2019 1:29:55 PM
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Posted - June 17 2019 : 02:59:52 AM
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The original motor in these old Triang pieces, later Hornby, were,
regrettably, garbage. Basura. Kaka. No good. Oddly, even though
eBay demand is high, and they sell quickly North of $100, they
don't make them anymore.
So, having pretty much thinking my motor is kaput, I am
endeavoring to install a motor into a trailing coach to
act as a pusher.
To my pleasant surprise the gear doesn't really care what kind of worm it
is up against, along as it lines up. So I installed a new Hornby motor
vertically into an AHM switcher chassis, sawed to fit, only to discover
that it rides about 3 or 4 mm to high. Back to the drawing board. 
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