Went over to a friends today and came home with a few Thomas Industries cars.
Steve
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This is a bit of a hybrid, but since it is powered by tinplate, I'll post it here.
This is a Marx Riser Gear windup motor, but as you might have noticed, there is a bit of extra mechanism at the front. The motor is basically stock with the exception of a lot of extra gearing to make the governor spin faster.... and since the governor can only spin so fast, it means the motor runs considerably slower than stock. A lot slower. Since the gearing between the mainspring and drive axle is stock, the pulling power and running distance is comparable to a stock Marx Riser Gear motor. A stock motor like this will complete 5 laps of my mainline in a bit less than a minute. This motor takes nearly 8 minutes to cover the same distance.
Why is it a hybrid? Because I installed it in a Lionel #8796 diesel switch engine shell... a plastic shell...
It sure is fun to see it putter around the layout:
Dennis Holler posted:
Nice score...!
Mike
Not bad Dennis...
Mike
Been buying lumber and tubular track. Today my buddy Rich Boyen and I built the 8' x 12'
L Girder table.
Joe Gozzo
LoadMaster posted:Dennis Holler posted:Nice score...!
Mike
Not bad Dennis, I have seen the flea market guys list one signal and a bent piece of track for that much.
Of course theirs is "RARE AND VINTAGE". I have often thought of starting a topic called "REALLY????"
on here so people could post some of the absurdly priced items they see online. Like the guy who
keeps relisting the rusty marx 6" frame for 69.99 or the one who keeps listing the common flying
yankee set for $3500. I made him an offer of $75, he got upset. hehe
BeachHead2,
Great looking Christmas Tanker! Real nice purchase.
Finalized the Restoration of the Black and Gold 817 Caboose this morning, very satisfied with the out come.
PCRR/Dave
USTTC made a series of club cars and a engine for TTCS. They made one a year. I had all but the 1981 boxcar until a couple of years ago when I found one for $63.00. Took to a TCA meet for show and tell and have not seen it since. Just got a replacement for $11.00. Now that I have replaced it, I’m sure I’ll find the other one.
beardog postedNot bad Dennis, I have seen the flea market guys list one signal and a bent piece of track for that much.
Of course theirs is "RARE AND VINTAGE". I have often thought of starting a topic called "REALLY????"
on here so people could post some of the absurdly priced items they see online.....
I don't know how many times I've seen an item listed as "rare" for an exorbitant price yet there are 20 other listing for the exact same item. Makes me laugh.
Mike
This just showed up at the front door. It needed a little cleaning, the steam chest cylinders were loose and some lube. I added a bridge rectifier and put it on the track. Runs great and very smooth. Hopefully I'll win the original matching cars for it this weekend
samdjr74 posted:This just showed up at the front door. It needed a little cleaning, the steam chest cylinders were loose and some lube. I added a bridge rectifier and put it on the track. Runs great and very smooth. Hopefully I'll win the original matching cars for it this weekend
Nice...!
Mike
and already weathered
Well, here is my latest venture into the world of the bay. "9615 boxed Sears Allstate set, complete, VG, and running."
Not, not and not. I emailed the seller back and suggested if she was going to list a set as complete, it should be.
Also if she was going to list it as very good, all components should be very good. And if she listed it as running it
should be running. Her response : "we're an estate liquidation company, we don't know anything about trains.
The guy who listed this doesn't work here anymore. " This is one of these companies that says "we'll make it
right" (or we'll make excuses). So far I have not heard back.
Sorry guys, all three videos are the same, I went brain dead uploading them
Well I am thoroughly enjoying my new red Mth 261. I do have a question to anyone else who has an Mth tinplate repro? Does anyone else’s engine make a gear whine noise as it speeds up? At any speed over 35 scale mph I can hear a whining noise that soon drowns out the loco sounds. I have applied some grease to the exposed gears but it hasn’t really made a difference. Has anyone else experienced this, can it be corrected?
jhz563 posted:Well I am thoroughly enjoying my new red Mth 261. I do have a question to anyone else who has an Mth tinplate repro? Does anyone else’s engine make a gear whine noise as it speeds up? At any speed over 35 scale mph I can hear a whining noise that soon drowns out the loco sounds. I have applied some grease to the exposed gears but it hasn’t really made a difference. Has anyone else experienced this, can it be corrected?
The main drive gear could be dry. They are a pain to get to. They are under the electronics if I recall. This is for P3.
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