David Minarik posted:
"Creeping at 2mph with Kadees and fixed pilot"
Hi Dave, is the Pennsy engine in the video an MTH loco, or is it the Williams? If MTH, you accomplished the Kadee conversion and rigid pilot modification very quickly! Please give us as much info here as as you can about this.
I visited my LHS today, and saw one of the MTH locos in person. Appearance wise, the model looked pretty good, and while there wasn't time for a running demo, I did hold it in my hands, and made a few observations; one, it is very heavy (that's a good thing). Two, it has only two axles powered, and all of the powered wheels (4 of them) have traction tires, leaving the four unpowered wheels to provide contact to the ground wires. Three, there doesn't appear to be any smoke unit, and Four, there is a 3-rail/2-rail selector slide switch mounted in the bottom of the fuel tank, although there doesn't appear to be any obvious insulation between the two wheels on each axle, so I'm not sure how it can run on two rail track. There would still be the problem of the pizza cutter flanges running on scale sized rail, even if it could run on two rails. There is also a DCS/DCC slide switch between one of the trucks and the fuel tank. My recent MTH RS1 had the mounting hole for this feature but no switch, in spite of what the catalog stated.
I must say that I am a bit disappointed to discover that only two axles on this loco are powered, as well as the fact that there are 4 traction tires, since I strongly dislike having any traction tires at all.
Bill in FtL
