Bob: Before you give up on the Pacific, have you tried replacing the universal shaft?? Those engines suffered from not enough weight on the drivers and very poor quality plastic used for the universal shaft. The shafts tend to slip under load (like a 2% grade!) and eventually the collar will crack and the motor will hum nicely while the locomotive goes nowhere! Yours could be in the "slip" stage.
Some guy who once knew a thing or two about brass repair described a fix in the February 1993 Dispatch. I assume Dick Karnes can supply that, otherwise check out the following... http://www.riverraisinmodels.com/library.html I've replaced the shafts in mine and they routinely pull 6 - 9 car milk and passenger trains, all brass cars... The Pacific's aren't great pullers, but they should do better than you describe... Jim K. P.S. On the up side, those Pacific's were the first locomotive's delivered with a ball bearing coreless can motor! --- In [email protected], Bob Werre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Friends, Now that everyone's beating their chests with fish stories, I > will tell the opposite. My SW Atlantic will only pull one brass > passenger car up my grades. My Overland Pacific will barely pull four > of the Kinsman wooden cars (with AM trucks) up the same grades which are > on curves to boot! <snip> ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
