Not "essentially" but actually--the Yoder 45T (I have two in standard gage) is smallish for a two-truck locomotive, especially in standardgage, but that is what it is. Rich Yoder offered it also in three-foot, and, as a concession to the growing On30 market, a few in On30.Plan on it being 25% too big for S scale.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > > The only reservation form I saw on Yoder's website was for the SP 50 tonner. > > Anyhow, On30 is essentially O Scale narrow gauge equipment running on HO > track. To adapt it to S you would have to move the wheels out to S gauge. > > Even though a GE 45 tonner is a relatively small locomotive, a regauged On30 > model would still be too large for S. > > Rich G(ajnak) > > > --- In [email protected], "empirebuilderjjhill" > <empirebuilderjjhill@...> wrote: > > > > The only real locomotive* to work at the prototype Valdez Terminal was an > > ARR GE 45 ton #7324. > > > > As far as I know, no `S'-manufacturer produces the 45 ton (though if I'm > > wrong, please tell me). > > > > There is a GE 45 ton in ON30; > > > > HTTP://WWW.RICHYODERMODELS.COM/RYM_45TON_RESERVE.HTM > > > > To clarify; The models are shown in ON30, but the site claims that they are > > only available in `O'. > > > > I plan on e-mailing the owner of this site to ask if these models are > > available in ON30 and to ask all other questions necessary to see if these > > engines would work as standard Gauge `S' engines. > > > > Having never converted an ON30 engine to `S', I'm not sure what questions > > to ask. > > > > Could you guys please help me figure out what I should ask this seller to > > see if this engine could be easily converted into an `S' scale engine? > > > > > > *At various times, the Valdez Terminal was also serviced by a Whiting > > Trackmobile, a CF-55-AF Aircraft Tug equipped with a coupler, and a CAT > > front end loader also equipped with a coupler. If any of you know where I > > might find a model of a Trackmobile or a CF-55-AF Aircraft Tug, I'd be > > interested in these as well. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
