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 Posted - September 05 2014 : 09:02:55 AM
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have no period cars with kadees,so used freight cars,not a hint of a struggle ken
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 12:12:47 PM
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Nice Ken!
Great looking floor! Love the look of the really old wide board flooring!
I wonder how many small parts have fallen through those cracks!!
Most of the old CV smaller old tyme wood & metal craftsman kit freight cars look great behind the General. Since yours is a military car, I'd stick with tank cars, flat cars carrying military equipment and supply loads and a few box cars.
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 12:25:52 PM
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great idea Sean,will be easy to make,regards parts i would think lots ken
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 5:26:26 PM
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| Sounds like a real freight moving along with those wooden boards under the track. Pretty fine Ken.
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 8:14:06 PM
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Ken, is there a can motor in that General? It's very smooth and steady.
I love that old flooring too, but I'd definitely rig up a parts vacuum. 
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 9:02:19 PM
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That's one good performing General you've got there, Ken. I've gotta find one of those eventually. I have the coaches, all I need is the loco itself. 
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 9:48:38 PM
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hi nelson its a faulhaber 2020a,see link with 3:9.1 gearing and offset shaft,if that means anything to you,ken
https://fmcc.faulhaber.com/en/
clink on this link,then on book preview it might help you more page 11
http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/alan-g-mueller/mantua-general-rebuild/paperback/product-21346236.html
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Posted - September 06 2014 : 1:11:16 PM
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| That book reference is pretty fine Ken. I really wanted to look at the pages on boiler modification, but the preview wouldn't permit that. That book looks like a neat collector's item in it's own right.
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Posted - September 06 2014 : 6:29:37 PM
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will scan it asap ken
ps did you see how small this guys drive shaft is shown below tender
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Posted - September 06 2014 : 9:17:49 PM
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Are there universal joints in that driveshaft arrangement? It seems like there would need to be, but looking at the photo of the tender, I can't see where they would be.
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Posted - September 08 2014 : 4:16:41 PM
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Perhaps the flex is in that small diameter driveshaft, like the driveshaft in the original Pontiac Tempest.
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Posted - September 08 2014 : 5:11:57 PM
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That's a top end repower. There's a guy on the Repower & Regear group who uses wire to make invisible dogbones like that. Was this was a recent auction win?
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Posted - September 17 2014 : 06:51:17 AM
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Nice one Ken!
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