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 Posted - March 18 2014 : 09:34:09 AM
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Found this idea on eBay? Athearn PA powered tender! Might be the just the thing for those old pan cake motor drives.
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Posted - March 18 2014 : 10:15:02 AM
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weird
Whould be funny to run JUST the tender on a layout 
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Posted - March 18 2014 : 10:58:25 AM
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quote:Athearn PA powered tender!
Originally posted by JRG1951Â -Â March 18 2014Â :Â 09:34:09 AM
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It occurs to me that if you could have two of those, the other being an auxiliary water tender, that beast would pull!
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Posted - March 18 2014 : 11:31:41 AM
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quote:weird
Whould be funny to run JUST the tender on a layout
Originally posted by microbusss - March 18 2014 : 10:15:02 AM
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I think I've actually seen somebody do that before at a train show. They took a powered tender off of the locomotive and ran it just by itself.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - March 18 2014 : 12:24:24 PM
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| That's awesome, I was to the point of despair with my old Tyco Chattanooga 2-8-0 with a broken frame in the tender drive and I did the same thing with an Athearn switcher chassis installed in a slightly longer tender than the Tyco.
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Posted - March 19 2014 : 12:04:23 AM
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I'm not sure that stock Bachmann drawbar would be able to successfully push the loco through curves without derailing it or the tender.
If I had a pancake motored Northern I'd send it to Bachmann for the retooled version under their replacement progam rather than resort to this. It probably wouldn't cost much more than a Blue Box PA-1.
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Posted - April 16 2014 : 12:33:26 AM
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Putting a diesel drive in the tender is a pretty common trick for the Tyco Chattanooga, so I don't see why it wouldn't work for the old Bachmanns! Just rework the drawbar a bit, make sure the engine rolls free, and it should be smooth as silk.
I think I once saw a repower where a guy scratch-built a motorized chassis in the centipede tender on a Niagara. Probably couldn't take a tight radius with 5 geared axles in a row, but I bet it was smooth. And then there's my Tyco drive: http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11842
EDIT: Here it is! http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=30131& Scroll all the way through to see the finished chassis. Basically like an extended Athearn DD40 drive truck!
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Edited by - Darth Santa Fe on April 16 2014 12:36:37 AM
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