i was thinking about purchasing a couple of grandt line's 23 ton boxcab diesel locomotive kits from walthers or at a train flea market. can anyone tell me how moch work there is in building one of these boxcabs, as i have no experience in assembling locomotive kits like grandt line's. Also is there a prototype counterpart to grandt line's 23 ton boxcab model?
I've built the Grandt Line 25-ton.
And it's now with a BullAnt drive a good slowly running critter. Here's my HowTo.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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I'm building one now. Seems fairly straight forward but there's a lot of little "fiddly bits" as our Brit buds would say. Buy them, practice on some simpler kits first, but don't fear. Just take your time. It's pretty clear the kit as is will need weight to pull anything and I doubt it'll make it through dead frogs (wheel base is TINY) but the drive train seems good. Older ones had a vertical gearmotor and would coast a long way. The newer ones like mine have a very small 3 pole open frame motor and a multi geared spur gear power train.
Lou
I have a pair (with the old drive). I have them coupled with a drawbar and and wired them together, they never stall. The wires between them just look like airhoses.
Jay
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I have never done the grandt line box cab but the grandt line kits i have done came out somewhat OK. The only problem i have with the grandt line kits are that you have to be extremely careful with the smaller parts. They are very thin and not very forgiving in that they can snap and break very easily. Especially items like hand rails or cross beams. They don't provide too many extra parts either if you do break one. I keep a supply of various sizes of evergreen styrene on hand and just replace any broken parts with styrene in its place....chuck