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 Posted - September 13 2015 : 1:27:19 PM
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My LOTW is an H0 scale Bachmann Spectrum K4 Pacific. Very lovely loco. 
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Posted - September 13 2015 : 10:22:51 PM
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I got this in a box of train stuff at a flea market. When I first tried it, it was a dead short. However, when I took it apart I found it had
sucked up four track spikes, which were shorting it out. After I picked them out, cleaned up the commutator and wheels,
and lubed it, it runs pretty well!
Still, with only four wheels, operation is problematic. I'm going to rig up a short flat car with pick-ups and wire it to the engine for better pick-up.
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Posted - September 13 2015 : 11:15:35 PM
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| Helm, post some pictures of how you do that project.
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Posted - September 14 2015 : 3:55:15 PM
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AHM this week...
Mike
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Posted - September 14 2015 : 4:30:50 PM
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MY Gilbert Black industrial Terminal switcher 31013 with side rods and a separate eccentric weight, Called a Jack Shaft.
frank
toptrain
" It's a Heck of a Day " !!!
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Posted - September 15 2015 : 11:59:50 AM
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quote:
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Mike
Originally posted by Mike - September 14 2015 : 3:55:15 PM
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Ahhh ALCO howler! And it's a demo' and I got two of them and I like them all the same!!!  
John
I don't have a one track mind. It depends on the turn-out.
"I love your catenary!"
Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - September 15 2015 : 5:24:32 PM
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well I want 1 darn it! 
Will look fer trains this Sat at Railfest
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Posted - September 15 2015 : 10:45:21 PM
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Wow, cool stuff. That Jack Shaft is a hoot! Nice work on the
Penn Line.
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Posted - September 15 2015 : 10:46:24 PM
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Nice piece. I believe you could dip it into a bowel of egg yolk and make scrambled eggs
what with all those side rods!
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Posted - September 16 2015 : 07:53:03 AM
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my loco is a mantua brass mogul
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Posted - September 16 2015 : 09:31:29 AM
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quote: quote:
Nice piece. I believe you could dip it into a bowel of egg yolk and make scrambled eggs
what with all those side rods!
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â September 15 2015Â :Â 10:46:24 PM
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Thank you.Yeah, the linkage is quite a show when moving.
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Posted - September 16 2015 : 11:37:44 AM
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It always interests me to see how different modelers put these things together. For all the simplicity of these little locomotives, they get their imagination provoking message across. This all black works pretty good. I've been thinking for awhile I'd like to paint one like an old standard gauge Lionel . . . gloss black with a red highlight here and there.
quote:my loco is a mantua brass mogul
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Posted - September 16 2015 : 12:24:50 PM
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| Nice. Iconic piece, Barry.
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Posted - September 17 2015 : 01:44:57 AM
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From the Chops Archives. An RS somethingorrather, Model Power I think. Started
out as a Rio Grande, then to N de M, later to B&M. At one point in her career she
was wired for DCC. A lovely machine, it runs like a clock and pulls hard.
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Posted - September 17 2015 : 11:34:04 AM
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That's Ken's piece.
quote:Nice. Iconic piece, Barry.
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Posted - September 17 2015 : 11:52:39 AM
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| that's how i got it,would have liked a gunmetal type front end,but do like the idea of a bit of red lining on tender,red boiler bands
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Posted - September 17 2015 : 2:27:58 PM
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quote:That's Ken's piece.
quote:Nice. Iconic piece, Barry.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â September 16 2015Â :Â 12:24:50 PM
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Originally posted by Barry - September 17 2015 : 11:34:04 AM
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Ken: nice piece!!
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