Dear Mark:
Have you considered a GE 44 tonnner ELECTRIC? Hoquat's scale
shell can be found. It drops onto an rebuilt Athearn HO SW-1200 shell.
(Dick Karnes or I can provide updated instructions for the mechanism
which retains the equalization and 8 wheel pickup.) The resulting
steeplecab is good for 4 - 5 unaltered American Flyer cars on a 1.75%
grade. American Flyer cars have all the great rolling characteristics
normally associated with bricks. My locomotive was able to easily move
20 cars with good trucks on Ed Loizeaux's and Roy Meissner's layouts.
A number of good photos can be found at
http://people.virginia.edu/~ggg9y/home.html.
But I wanted more than four AF cars. I now have two and run mine as a
pair. They haul an 8 car AF train plus AF caboose up and down the
grades without problems. You could install overhead, third rail, or
just pretend the third rail is there. I use working overhead which
means it is energized. I have only one pantograph up at a time. The
other loco is fed via a jumper cable.
Thorin
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Posted by: "Mark Plank" [EMAIL PROTECTED] chingcat123
Date: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:05 am ((PST))
My railroad is needing a GE 44 tonner or two. From what I can see,
there have (or will be) 2 suppliers of 44 tonners in S scale.
River Raisin Models <http://www.riverraisinmodels.com/> - the model is
apparently long gone, or at least I didn't see it in stock in a quick
glance at the web site.
Steam Depot - (mentioned on Craig S. O'Connell's S Scale Locomotives
and Rolling Stock page at
<http://trainweb.org/crocon/srollingstock.html> and also on Ted Larson's
page at <http://trainweb.org/mhrr/ho-s-o/sprotosA.html>).
Does anyone have any comments on either companies' models? Having just
converted from a 1918/1919 (NYC Lines Toledo & Ohio Central) mindset to
a 1945-1952 (probably settling on the earlier side, former interurban
Winona Railroad), I see I will need to have 2 GE 44 tonners (one of the
benefits of modeling a line with only 4 locomotives - although the other
2 are a propane powered engine and a gas powered engine that look like
nothing I've ever seen <vbg>). The Winona's engines were both built in
8/45 if that helps for comparisons to the models.
Thanks.
Mark Plank
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