Well, Ben at least you have some deductive reasoning! I've been told I have none at all! I'll have to check my u-boats, but I do think they are blackened.
However since you brought up the sprung driving wheels. Are you happy with them? I am not totally in synch with them. My SD-60 will start rocking very much like a string of freight cars hitting a sag in the roadbed. That in itself, looks pretty neat but it just continues that way. It might be the torgue on the drive line. My U-boats have a little of that going on but not as much. I guess I prefer the solid gear towers on my RS-3's, FP-7's, GP-9's and PA's--pretty much bullet proof. Bob Werre BobWphoto.com > > Bob, > I'm looking at the the color of the tower itself. It's black with the > red dot (bearings?) and not the silvery looking metal of my geeps. The > color matches the towers of my newer 6 axle locomotives with springs > at the axle bearings. Also the top nut is identical to the 3 axle > 'spring drive' mechanism. AM has a 2 axle 'spring drive'. > > I jumped to my conclusion based on these facts. However I am prone to > twitchy deductive reasoning. > Ben Trousdale > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, Bob > Werre <b...@...> wrote: > > > > Ben, how does one determine old or new gear tower? Most of my engines > > are fairly old except for some U-boats. I haven't noticed a difference. > > > > Bob Werre > [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/
