Tom D. posted:The Casey Jones drive has a small HO size motor with a worm gear directly driven to the rear geared axle. There is no flywheel on the motor. The drivers are not sprung.
It runs ok, but it is a plastic engine with a slug weight. It's not going to pull a lot of cars.
The drivers do look pretty nice. If my kitbash comes out nice I'm going to convert it to a NWSL gearbox.
"Not going to pull a lot of cars" Neither did the real one. I bought a dozen Maxon coreless motors on eBay a while back and one will fit nicely where the original motor was. It is a little taller so I cut out the top of the firebox but you can't see it with the roof in place. The Maxon is easily twice as strong, or more. . Being coreless it does not need a flywheel so much. I will also make a boiler weight by casting lead shot in epoxy to help with pulling power I want it to pull 5 MTH 60' wood coaches up a 2% grade, and their a bit heavy. One problem with these light plastic models when you try and add weight is, once they are heavy it's hard to find a point to lift them without breaking something. j
