I have a AF Hudson (on the shelf) that has the Nimco conversion drivers plus a Pittman open frame motor. Like most it's pretty ugly as it made up of three seperate Hudsons, but some of it from later my childhood one so it will stay around. One thing about putting those drivers under it--they slip like the real thing, so you're forced to start slowly. I run it occasionally but no decoder has been installed. I also have a K-5 with a Pittman and a junker 0-8-0 with a Kemtron motor that will do about 200 after it stops spinning--before rubber tires on that one too. In fact the drivers are so worn they have a groove worn in the thread, so it has flanges on both edges.
Bob Werre > > Hi Dave; > > I do have a re-worked AF pacific which I run on the club Hi-rail > layout. It has a bridge rectifier so it will run on DC. While it's not > "great" and won't win a contest for tie-by-tie creeping it does run at > acceptable speeds, particularly for a passenger engine. > > Pieter E. Roos > > --- On Mon, 11/15/10, ctxmf74 <[email protected] > <mailto:ctxm%40ix.netcom.com>> wrote: > > I've never run an AmericanFlyer loco so I'm > > wondering given their age do they run well enough to make > > converting them to scale worth all the trouble? I've only > > seen them running at bullet train speeds so I have doubts > > about their ability to run at scale speed? > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
