SeeYou190 ATLANTIC CENTRAL What is wrong with your 2-8-0? . It was pulling a short train on my previous layout. A truck mounting screw on one of the freight cars worked itself loose, and unthreaded to the point that it caught a crossing rail and the train slammed to an abrupt stop. . Ever since then the 2-8-0 has clicked moving forward and pulls high amperage. It works fine in reverse. I have not investigated the problem. . . -Kevin .
ATLANTIC CENTRAL What is wrong with your 2-8-0?
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It was pulling a short train on my previous layout. A truck mounting screw on one of the freight cars worked itself loose, and unthreaded to the point that it caught a crossing rail and the train slammed to an abrupt stop.
Ever since then the 2-8-0 has clicked moving forward and pulls high amperage. It works fine in reverse. I have not investigated the problem.
-Kevin
Kevin,
The Spectrum/Bachmann 2-8-0 is easy to work on, but I suspect your problem is very simple.
The very bottom of the loco is a plastic plate, which includes the brake shoes. Inside that plate are pickup wipers and wiring to the two wire tender plug.
The plate is easily removed with a few screws. I suspect that somehow you have some bent wipers that are clicking and binding on the drivers in forward.
Remove the plate, often the wipers can simply be straightened out, and the plate reinstalled.
Worst case, Bachmann sells that part last I checked.
Sheldon
PRR8259You and how many other people want to line up for small to medium sized "American" prototype steam? That's the REAL question here. How many would actually buy, not how many might buy if...fill in the caveat? I mean no disrespect to Sheldon or other steam fans; however, we are so far beyond the end of the steam era now that it seems the market for small to medium sized steam, or most steam in general (except the few who gotta have just one steam engine) just isn't what it was.
Hard to say. Some more recent polls seem to indicate the new "transition era" is transition from 1st to 2nd generation diesel (1960's and 1970's). It's hard to say if small steam would sell in numbers or not. There is a vocal group who want them because they would be good for smaller layouts in contrast to the huge Big Boys.
The Atlas Rescue Forum, of which I'm not a member,
You used to be, and can always return.
seems to be primarily HO diesel these days. There is very little steam-related discussion (other than considerable whining about the prices of both MTH's and Athearn's latest steam offerings).
I don't see any more whining about prices than anywhere else, at least the past couple yers not so much.
Indeed, it seems like every manufacturer has produced or is producing their very own C44-9W.
Sure seems like it but I guess they are just chasing what sells. I used to overlap into wide cab era but decided to back date to caboose era since trains just don't look "right" to me without a caboose.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
I'm at a loss for words:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Union-Pacific-Big-Boy/254194883496?hash=item3b2f321ba8:g:2FMAAOSwQVlcrSuw
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
steemtraynI'm at a loss for words: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Union-Pacific-Big-Boy/254194883496?hash=item3b2f321ba8:g:2FMAAOSwQVlcrSuw
You have to hand it to John Rimmasch, though: it's a useful source of revenue from foamites obsessed with the 4014 'phenomenon'. What's next, bottled blowdown water? (There's already a market for 'high alkaline water' although NOT the same mix of "electrolytes" as in boiler treatment!)