Bob Hendrich's Articulated one of a kind engine

Check out the cut gears on  that fly wheel!Awesome!

That's not a flywheel.  It's a ring-and-pinion that wouldn't be out of place on a small-block Chevy!  I think the pinion gear is mounted to the motor shaft.  (You can see what looks like a honking big can motor above, in the firebox area, in the last photo.)

With all that weight, no rubber tires it doesn't need a flywheel.  If the wheels don't turn, it's own weight would keep it going for several inches.  Pets keep off the rails, please!!

Hello all ... here is a video of the engine running ... it will pull anything placed behind it ....

Carey,

What's the smallest radius curve the loco can navigate easily?

Bob Nelson 

That's Awesome!

Hello Bob .. the engine will turn on a  80" ...Boucher loop ... I have not tried it on a 72" ......I'm sure it would be very happy with 84 &  87 " ... the machining on the engine is all top notch .......you would have to load test any trestles or bridges ...before sending this across .... this makes the Lionel  Hiawatha look like a feather weight ....  it is just the engine to pull a very very long haul on a huge SMGA layout ..... anyone you know have a huge layout ?

Cheers Carey

That is a very satisfying chunk of metal - thanks for sharing it! I also had to look up the Maurer DD-1

http://www.modeltrainjournal.c...iewtopic.php?t=17515

Question: do you know if any of these craftsmen built their own motors?

Hello all ...I believe these are good sized commercially made motors ....  from vacuum cleaners ? ....

here is a link to a Randall Hudson built up by Bob ...  with similar motor ... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3jTS6YKRxk

here is a link to one of Bob Hendrich Goldstar GG1's with two of the motors ...pulling 7 Randall cars last year at Trainfest in Milwaukee ...it was happy pulling the load for hours ..no worriers ....  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t2coVNs9lw

Bob is a very talented machinist and built for smooth operation of his trains .  

Cheers Carey 

Here is Paul's  video from Trainfest last year  with Bob's ..GG1, Hudson and the DD1 all running ..enjoy 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9yi2DnHmt0

The articulated certainly uses some type of "can" motor.  It's visible in the last still photograph.  Based on what I could seen in the SGMA video, the 3-rail standard gauge Hudson also seems to have a can motor (visible in the cab), and a direct worm gear drive.  I would love to know more details about the drive systems in the other locos.  Also, I noticed the Hudson in one of the videos is operating on two-rail track!!

Hello the two rail Hudson is 1 gauge ..... 3 rail standard gauge .

I'll try and take a few close up photos of the drive and post 

Cheers Carey 

Aster and USA Trains both made excellent Gauge One electric Hudson models. The Ro version was diecast.

Yes those are both excellent more recent engines the Randall castings date back to the 1930's .  

GREAT locos, but alas, very few of us have the skills, tools and equipment to produce such masterpieces! We mere mortals are relegated to simply be observers, and THANKS for sharing!

Carey Williams posted:

Hello Bob .. the engine will turn on a  80" ...Boucher loop ... I have not tried it on a 72" ......I'm sure it would be very happy with 84 &  87 " ... the machining on the engine is all top notch .......you would have to load test any trestles or bridges ...before sending this across .... this makes the Lionel  Hiawatha look like a feather weight ....  it is just the engine to pull a very very long haul on a huge SMGA layout ..... anyone you know have a huge layout ?

Cheers Carey

 

Carey,

I can't think of anyone with a super large layout.  This engine would have had a great time running on the huge SGMA layout I modulated at Oaks, PA or the one I modulated at Dulles, VA.

Bob Nelson 

There is an even larger articulated in Standard gauge 3-rail that Bob Hendrichs built. It is a scale model of the Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 #1218 (the #1218 is the last surviving one of these real 4-cylinder locomotives and is on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia). See photos of the model. This locomotive sits in a static display (wheels and drivers run while loco stays in place) at the Langton House in Pasadena, CA. This house is a famous location for film production and was most notably featured as the exterior establishing shot of the governor’s mansion in the TV show Benson. There is also a 36’ x 16’ S gauge layout in the mansion. The American Flyer S-Gauge Layout is located on the 3rd floor in the Ballroom of the house. The house also features Robert Langton’s toy train, model car and bicycle collection displayed in other rooms in the house. The modular train layout owners/designers/operators were Don Hasty and Bob Knee. Five (5) trains can run simultaneously on this layout. Equipment operated includes several custom-built S gauge locomotives made by Robert Hendrich, including a one-of-a-kind triplex. This layout will be part of the 'home layout' tours offered at the upcoming 2021 TCA National Convention hosted by Western Division in southern California August 18-22. For more info on the convention, visit the web site here: www.tcaconvention.org

You want to see a one of a kind articulated engine, ask @Lee Willis Lee Willis to post some pictures of his bendable boiler creation.

@Harold Shapiro posted:

There is an even larger articulated in Standard gauge 3-rail that Bob Hendrichs built. It is a scale model of the Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 #1218 (the #1218 is the last surviving one of these real 4-cylinder locomotives and is on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia). See photos of the model. This locomotive sits in a static display (wheels and drivers run while loco stays in place) at the Langton House in Pasadena, CA. This house is a famous location for film production and was most notably featured as the exterior establishing shot of the governor’s mansion in the TV show Benson. There is also a 36’ x 16’ S gauge layout in the mansion. The American Flyer S-Gauge Layout is located on the 3rd floor in the Ballroom of the house. The house also features Robert Langton’s toy train, model car and bicycle collection displayed in other rooms in the house. The modular train layout owners/designers/operators were Don Hasty and Bob Knee. Five (5) trains can run simultaneously on this layout. Equipment operated includes several custom-built S gauge locomotives made by Robert Hendrich, including a one-of-a-kind triplex. This layout will be part of the 'home layout' tours offered at the upcoming 2021 TCA National Convention hosted by Western Division in southern California August 18-22. For more info on the convention, visit the web site here: www.tcaconvention.org

Bob Thon has a G gauge Hendrichs version of this loco.

Jim