Hi everyone! Missed you and my trains (had to go overseas for a few months). So since I replaced my kitchen, I felt like my wife would not have a problem if I took half of the garage for my R.O.W. That plus working half weeks during lockdown means I have all my bench work done minus my staging level. Mainline loop is driveable, now need to finish the subroadbed for the yard.
Rant Time....I don't know how but it just happened that when I set up my pw 736 to take a run that it was wobbling like a drunk. Come to find out that my front driver flange was chipped off and apparently the axle bent as well. Sheesh. So not feeling quite ready to go pulling drivers I stumble upon a rolling "736" frame on eBay, $10 more than the price of wheels axle and bushings. So I say great, buy it and swap the chassis.
It arrives today and I sit down to do surgery. I get allllll the way to the first step of re-assembly when I realize that this frame is not exactly right. Because the holes for my pickup shoe screws are not there. A few colorful foreign phrases and a greenburg later, I realize that I have the frame of a 746 N&W.
Which is identical in every possible way to the frame of a 736...except for the pickup shoe mounting. Urrrrrrrgh. Parts on order.
anyway, y'all understand the struggle. The wife just wants her kitchen painted.
I've had a few purchases of that sort myself.
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
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