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 Posted - December 22 2013 : 6:17:41 PM
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Starting off this week's LOTW , you'll need a magnifying glass almost!  After working on some O and Standard Gauge Lionel Saturday, I came home and dug out my Marklin Z gauge steam engine, which has needed total disassembly and cleaning to remove all the hair, gunk, etc that the previous owner had let accumulate. I had it back in one piece in about 1.5 hours.  Working with those tiny parts compared to the massive Lionel gear, quite a switch! But it's running happier now, still a bit jerky, but I think the track needs cleaning. I'll do that tonight and see how it does. Here she is :
Wish there was a way to put in some more weight, but space is precious inside that tiny shell, only place is around the cab. I might can squeeze in some weight there. Here's a pic with it apart.
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Posted - December 22 2013 : 6:27:52 PM
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One of my Christmas gifts. Mantua NIB 0-4-0 Camelback. Always wanted one and you'll see her chugging along in 3 days!
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 09:56:58 AM
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quote:Starting off this week's LOTW , you'll need a magnifying glass almost! After working on some O and Standard Gauge Lionel Saturday, I came home and dug out my Marklin Z gauge steam engine, which has needed total disassembly and cleaning to remove all the hair, gunk, etc that the previous owner had let accumulate. I had it back in one piece in about 1.5 hours. Working with those tiny parts compared to the massive Lionel gear, quite a switch! But it's running happier now, still a bit jerky, but I think the track needs cleaning. I'll do that tonight and see how it does. Here she is :
Wish there was a way to put in some more weight, but space is precious inside that tiny shell, only place is around the cab. I might can squeeze in some weight there. Here's a pic with it apart.
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â December 22 2013Â :Â 6:17:41 PM
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Those european models, Marklin and Fleishman, fascinate me, especially the Marklin cantenary electric prototypes, but I never took the plunge. Catford Ken has some nice English steam prototype photos posted on here.
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 5:58:33 PM
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My LOTW:
A KMT? NSWGR Beyer Garratt 4-8-4+4-8-4
Just purchased on Friday!
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 6:32:10 PM
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Nice Z scale Locomotive. I'm a big fan of Z scale bought my first back in the early 90's and have bin collecting ever since. And you aint kidding going from O to Z is rough
Here is my Z scale Marklin B&O Pacific amongst some home made trees.
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Posted - December 23 2013 : 8:56:25 PM
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It's like when I go from Ho to G. Had to rebuild the running gear of my G-Scale New Jersey Central 4-6-0. Much harder and more labor intensive work then my large HO collection
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 08:21:25 AM
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 12:53:44 PM
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nice locos my good buddies,mine is a mantua ken
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Posted - December 24 2013 : 1:38:27 PM
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| Nice looking Mogul there Ken. Nice finish. At first I was thinking it was a nice example of the newer plastic ones and then I got to looking and see that it's one of the old brass ones. My pretty much done template for a guide bar yoke for my Mantua 2-6-0 sits on the drawing board while I fool around with the layout and other models. Guess I need to look at some photos like the one you posted and feed my inspiration.
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Posted - December 25 2013 : 3:18:52 PM
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some lovely locos in this thread! i love the little marklins, and the blue glittery one is lovely.
heres mine:
its one of the bradford exchange hawthorne village sets. i got this and 5 of the coaches for christmas. the rest is still to arrive. havent run it yet as dont have a powered layout at home, nor do i have enough track to cobble one together. will maybe take it to the club, but i dont think itll work properly as the body is huge while the wheels are HO gauge.
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Posted - December 25 2013 : 4:36:23 PM
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quote:My LOTW:
A KMT? NSWGR Beyer Garratt 4-8-4+4-8-4
Just purchased on Friday!
Originally posted by Mustangs_n_Trains - December 23 2013 : 5:58:33 PM
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Sean; Do you know how it goes together. You have 1 section facing the wrong way and one section not in the right place. And it is the same section.
frank
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Posted - December 25 2013 : 6:52:04 PM
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Originally posted by Brianstyco - December 24 2013 : 08:21:25 AM
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I think I have seen this one in action pulling the Christmas lights train in Charlotte
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Posted - December 25 2013 : 6:56:59 PM
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quote:heres mine:
Originally posted by sunhuntin - December 25 2013 : 3:18:52 PM
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Thats cause its called On30 A O gauge train that runs on HO track 
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Posted - December 25 2013 : 7:00:00 PM
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| i have that Hawthorne village disney set somewhere got it for kids,not at their price though,ken
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Posted - December 26 2013 : 03:17:11 AM
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Thats cause its called On30 A O gauge train that runs on HO track
Originally posted by microbusss - December 25 2013 : 6:56:59 PM
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thanks for the confirmation. found conflicting reports on google. ive spoken to the club president and we have identified 2 points where it might not get past... one is at the station, where it will have to take the second loop, and the other is under a new overpass..
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Posted - December 26 2013 : 09:15:42 AM
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quote: quote:A KMT? NSWGR Beyer Garratt 4-8-4+4-8-4
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Sean; Do you know how it goes together. You have 1 section facing the wrong way and one section not in the right place. And it is the same section.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - December 25 2013 : 4:36:23 PM
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Hi Frank!
This is the listing photo! I do not have it in my possession yet. It's paid for, but as far as I can tell, not shipped yet. I did not take the photo and plan to take photos of it as it should sit, when it arrives. Then I plan to relist it.
Maybe this is better:
Sean
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Posted - December 26 2013 : 1:57:51 PM
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Sean, are both sets of drivers on the Garratt powered? I thought there might be a central motor, but I don't see any universals between the units.
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Posted - December 26 2013 : 2:12:07 PM
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quote:Sean, are both sets of drivers on the Garratt powered? I thought there might be a central motor, but I don't see any universals between the units.
Originally posted by NickelPlate759Â -Â December 26 2013Â :Â 1:57:51 PM
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Hi Nelson,
There is a motor at each end - dual motor - Just like in real life!
Sean
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Posted - December 26 2013 : 3:01:04 PM
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Sean, Nice to know it's dual-motored. A central motor wouldn't be possible with Pittmans anyway, which I assume it has. Although I did see a Pittman-style once with the shaft passing through a hole in the magnet... I wonder why that wasn't done more often for diesels.
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Posted - December 27 2013 : 09:09:18 AM
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hi Sean sure is a sweet ad60 garrett ken
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Posted - December 27 2013 : 12:09:57 PM
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| Those Garratts are quite the machines.
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Posted - December 27 2013 : 12:43:05 PM
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weren't they bigger than UP's Big Boys? 
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Posted - December 27 2013 : 1:57:00 PM
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Got this yesterday
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Posted - December 27 2013 : 2:59:05 PM
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| nice loco badman,love the cn&w ken
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Posted - December 28 2013 : 4:04:48 PM
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My loco of the week is a PFM United Benson Log Co. 2-Truck Shay:
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I more or less inherited it from a deceased cousin. At the time, it was a box of parts. I reassembled and painted it, adding coal to the tender and the ropes to ring the bell and blow the whistle. These were fine pieces of magnet wire:
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It was missing the lids for the rear sand bin so I contacted PFM to see about ordering replacements. They just sent me a couple without charging for them. That was pretty generous, considering that I was not even the original buyer.
/tyco/forum/uploaded/scsshaggy/20131228160901_Shay03.JPG
It eventually became clear to me why the engine was dismantled, in the first place. It made a rattling noise where the worm comes down to the gear on the crankshaft. I mistook this for the worm hitting the railhead at times, because it is pretty low-slung. The truth is that the gear on the crankshaft was worn out. Eventually, it started to skip. It looks like a bear to replace being built right into the engine assembly. I shimmed the engine mount so the gears engage just a bit differently and the engine runs again. I don't know for how long, though, so I use the engine only occasionally.
The electrical pickup had room for improvement. One truck picked up from one rail and the other from the other rail. I added wipers to make it pick up on all wheels:
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I found an advertisement for the same kind of engine, here:
http://www.brasstrains.com/classic/Product/Detail/045181/HO-Brass-PFM-United-Benson-Log-Co-2-Truck-Shay-Custom-Laurel-River-3
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Posted - December 28 2013 : 6:17:28 PM
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| Nice work Don. I'm curious, what is "magnet wire"? Thanks. Barry
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Posted - December 28 2013 : 6:37:46 PM
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quote:Nice work Don. I'm curious, what is "magnet wire"? Thanks. Barry
Originally posted by Barry - December 28 2013 : 6:17:28 PM
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Magnet wire is the fine wire wound to make electromagnets. In this particular case, it came from a burned out twin-solenoid switch machine.
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Posted - December 28 2013 : 6:57:17 PM
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Sean I like the way you reversed the boiler section with a mirror image. Then pieced them together. Very neat.
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Posted - December 29 2013 : 01:37:32 AM
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I love scsshaggy's shay............
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