Bob you are so right! I mentioned a few days ago when the discussion
started about the SHS blind drivers on their 2-8-0 engine. The little
guy derailed in a short section of track that all my older engines ran
through. Well, my section crew (yours truly) removed the ballast and
about 8" of flex track. I lost all those plastic ties of course but
reused the rail and laid it upon some Kappler ties. A little stain, a
couple dozen spikes, finished the project. Next with a cold one in one
hand and my Digitrax throttle in the other, I ran the SHS through the
re-laid trackage at speed in both directions. I next ran my longest
wheelbase engine, my UP 4-8-4, through the track and it did fine. I
almost felt like another 'cold one' but I also had a switch machine that
stopped behaving so on to that project!
I have another little trouble spot that one engine, my SD-9 from
River Raisin doesn't like. That engine is pretty stiff in the spring
department. One rail on a siding has a little dip in it--don't know if
perhaps I clamped it too hard during construction, or perhaps the
homesote was a bit uneven, anyway the six wheeled truck on the SD will
derail where my E units will not. The section crew will be out this
week to fix that.
I recently acquired a very nicely built 0-6-0 from Chuck Porter
(the BTS East Broad Top engine lettered for the Milwaukee Road). The
roundhouse crew (again, yours truly) popped open the tender and the
boiler and installed a Tsunami DCC sound unit. It was a tight fit but
the sound is great. I plan on replacing the tender wheels as they are
insulated on both sides with electrical pickup wheels as the drivers
don't always provide all the pickup I need.
Since the above project plus buying a new lawn mower ( yes the
weeds in the yard are growing --well--like weeds) took much of the
weekend I didn't have time to finish up my article on redoing the Alco
Models RS 2 & 3 diesels. I will assure you I will finish it up this
week. Meanwhile the engine has been running a bit and everything is
running as it should and I am pleased with the results.
Bob Werre
>
>
> Art:
>
> You should find that your SW-1 will run anywhere a freight car will
> run, especially if the trucks are equalized.
>
> That was one of the benefits of diesels with the prototype. However,
> they found out the hard way that diesels were much harder on track
> after they laid off all the section crews.
>
> This is because a diesel wheel and traction motor assembly weighs more
> than a set of steam locomotive drivers, and with all that "unsprung"
> weight hammering the rails, something has to give.
>
> We as modelers, though, don't have those problems; if anything ours
> are just the opposite, getting some steamers to track properly.
>
> Bob Nicholson
>
>
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