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Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:
Jim Waterman posted:
Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Added a Std GG-1 project to the mix.

Steve

roberts gg1

Steve, Did you buy that one without the lead trucks?

Saw it on ebay - might be some work to finish it out. Shell looks nice though.

Jim, yes this the one from eBay last week. It’s going to my buddies house so I won’t get my hands it for a few days. I already have one with 3 cars but both motors are pretty bad. The motor castings on this look fair so hopefully I can make one run decently. I may take the worst shell and remoter it with a build a loco type if there is enough height.  That should give one I’m comfortable running.

Steve

Steve, I repowered mine with a pair of NWSL G gauge 4 wheel power trucks, similar to the ones that are in the USA or AristoCraft diesels. The front and rear axles match up with the side frames, if you run it fast, you don't see the missing center axle. It runs nice and smooth. Had to make longer axles and reuse the worm wheels, but it's a nice runner and no worry about the cast frames going away. Some of these McCoy based drives were really bad.

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