I have spent many happy hours switching with my Gilbert Baldwin switchers. When my first Baldwin and I were both fairly new, I spotted cars at accessories and made up trains with it. I grew up near a New York Central freight yard and that kind of action fascinated me. The Baldwin resembled the switch engines in that yard.
When I returned to Flyer trains in adulthood, most of the Baldwins I acquired did not work that well, although one of them worked fine with no modification at all. . I learned to replace the armature bearings, shim the axle bearings, rewind the armatures and fields, and add weight. I also added free standing brass wire handrails to one of them. Once these changes had been made, and the couplers repaired and adjusted, they were quite capable of switching chores. I always have a freight classification yard with electric uncouplers in my layouts, and as long as the cuts of cars involved are no longer than 8 cars or so, my Baldwins do fine. They go through Flyer switches better if you remove the pickup shoe on the power truck. Tom Jarcho S-Trains list sponsor: http://www.americanflyertrains.com All the Flyer you desire...books and accessories too! To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
