New delivery and PM engines and MOW car.
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MP 4-8-4 2200 imported by PFM (Fujiyama model) in 1972.
This is the only MP engine on the 'roster'.
Video: 'yard test'.
Runs quite even with an open frame motor which will be replaced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-vlkNd_WE
Numbered 2212
Has been used but not a 'lot'.
Unusual to have cab detail back in 1972.
Will add some red and white paint to dials and handles.
Impressive whoever painted the cab interior green as the cab is not removable so very hard to accomplish that.
Whoever painted this engine did a very nice job which was the main reason I purchased this engine.
Marker lenses, red inside the bell, numbers on the 'number boards', headlight, 'keep off' sign and painted air hoses.
Fireman's side.
Another reason for the purchase: lots of piping 
All the piping around the smoke box painted black.
Nicely done 'white walls' and 'running board'.
All the cab nomenclature. Painted 'rain roof' over the windows.
'White wall' tender wheels.
Lots of nomenclature on the rear of the tender.
Top views.
Interesting 'dog house' in that it is recessed into the tender's deck.
More painted 'detail work'.
Engineer's side.
'Builders plate' not 'painted over'.
Painted air hoses.
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SP AC-1 2-8-8-2 imported by Westside in 1980 which I painted, added headlight (engine/tender), marker lights , cab lights, fire box glow, running board lights and a TCS 1517 decoder.
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Engine hesitates, sometimes, in forward and reverse and needs a 'nudge' to get it 'moving'.
All drivers have a 'wire setup' versus individual springs on each driver axle so the drivers are 'equalized'.
Initially I thought that may be the problem.
Disassembled.
When applying resistance to the drivers the universal would 'bind' as the 'T' end of the universal would almost come out of the slotted part of the universal. The screw was loosened and the 'slotted part' was moved forward about a 3/32".
That fixed the 'bind'.
The back gear box would move forward and backward when the motor was reversed.
A piece of brass was cut to remedy the gear box movement.
I was lucky that there was a screw on the gear box that I could 'use'.
The two side of the brass bracket rests against the frame.
The universal was moving down and was touching the bottom of the frame as some of the paint was 'worn away'.
The new piece of brass also keeps the universal centered in that open hole.
A test seems to have resolved all the problems.
Just used some alligator clips connected to the motor wires.....
and used an old 1972 PFM sound system to test the engine unit.
Running board lights were 'blown' so new ones glued 'in place'.
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GN S-2 4-8-4 imported by BLI as a brass hybrid in 2016.
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Last Tuesday's an operator ran this engine and it stopped, reversed itself and went full speed (twice).
Took it out on the mainline to test it and it ran OK pulling 14 passenger cars 950'.
Videos:
Skykomish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0riU44GfcY
Waverly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzuTkmTBqJw
Tye:
Basin tunnel.
Willmar.
Skykomish.
I disassembled the engine and tender.
The decoder doesn't looked 'smoked' and the 'smoke unit' isn't working so I got on BLI's website
and requested a new smoke unit and decoder.
Even though the engine functioned OK I have 2 'burned out' smoke units in the GN box so maybe the decoder is
'over loading' the smoke unit so I'll get new ones.
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This GN MOW car derailed.
It had plastic wheels so I replaced them with Intermountain metal wheels.
Since the trucks are metal, some small pieces of electrical tape are put on the inside of the side frame
to prevent the insulated wheel from contacting the truck's side frame.
I prefer the old metal trucks over the new plastic ones as the 'old ones' have real springs.
Usually the plastic trucks allow 'easily rolling' cars but the Intermountain trucks have the same 'affect'
on the old 'all metal' trucks.
......but .....what a plethora of visual and informative delights for us to absorb . 
