Great Northern railway

N&W Y-3 2-8-8-2 final assembly.

Imported by Custom Brass in 1978.

Video: yard test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saW6oIFo7_4

An engine that I painted last Spring.

Installed a Tenshodo silent slant drive gear, 2 motors (1 can was bad), TCS 1517 decoder, LED's in head lights (engine/tender), marker lights, running board lights, cab light and fire box glow.

It took me a day to get the 'drive train' to work properly.

The first can motor (from last Spring) drew too much amperage so my new can motors that I install in all my engines was used.

The white plastic universal attached to the motor wasn't 'balanced' with those two screws so I used some rubber tubing.

Clear caulk secured the motor to the frame.

I didn't like that 'angle' between the 'high' box and the universal to the left.

I had to file some metal off the front of the 'high' gear box as the frame was in front of it so the gear box would be aligned with the universal.

The caulk was cut and re-caulked to have all 'shafts' in the same 'line'.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Front view.

Fireman's view.

Removable cab roof.

Highly detailed cab.

Engineer's side view.

Other N&W engines on the roster.

Right to left:

Y-3 2-8-8-2 by Custom Brass.

Y-6B 2-8-8-2 imported by BLI in 2021. Cast metal boiler/tender with smoke.

J 4-8-4 imported by MTH in 2017. Cast metal boiler/tender with smoke.

This engine 'powers' the 10 car passenger train by MTH.

J 4-8-4 imported by Sunset in 1983. I was lucky to have a set of decals for this engine since they are difficult to locate.

2 auxiliary water cars; one by NWSL and the other by BLI (lighted).

Class A 2-6-6-4 imported by PFM (United) in 1962. Installed can motor, TCS 1517 decoder and LED's headlights, marker lights, running board lights, cab light and fire box glow. Also installed a 'back head'.

MMM: need to clean off the 'leaves' as it was 'sitting' under one of my trees!