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 Posted - May 09 2007 : 10:27:31 AM
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Are Ahm's Bowkers any good? Is there ways to improve the performance. Also, is $45 a good price for one thats like new with the orig. box?
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 Posted - May 09 2007 : 12:24:17 PM
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I am working on a couple Bowker locomotives at the moment. (piecing them back together)
There are 2 versions, one has the motor in the tender and one has it in the cab. I have the ones with the motor in the cab.
Installing electrical pick ups and metal wheels to the tender and a little extra weight in the front of the boiler will improve their preformance.
I guess $45 isn't a bad price if it is in perfect shape.
Ray
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 10:12:35 AM
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It has the tender drive, not in the boiler. Also, does it follow any particular prototype?
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 1:01:16 PM
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quote: Also, does it follow any particular prototype?
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - May 10 2007 : 10:12:35 AM
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The Bowker was one of the Virginia and Truckee locomotives.
http://aroundcarson.com/2007/01/25/californias_vt_engines
The tender drive is the earlier version. They don't run bad but run better with the added electrical pickups.
Ray
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Posted - May 10 2007 : 9:52:21 PM
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| Its only real fault is that the cab is somewhat larger than HO scale, more like European OO which is 4mm to the foot instead of 3.5mm.
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Posted - May 11 2007 : 09:00:19 AM
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I've run both, a tender drive and a cab drive and the only difficulty I ever had was with the tender drive and the drive-shaft slipping on some turns probably too many cars in the consist, not sure. Other than that both configurations ran very well for me.
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