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Ok: sketch to follow; I'll put it up as a JPG. Look for it sometime tomorrow. Photos of the offending parts will have to wait- shop's a goodly drive away and traffic out here is horrible. . . and likely to remain so until the 26th. I'll try and get an ACAD drawing together, too. The engine in question is ALCo C/N 67544, built 1927. 2-6-2T (28"/44"/28"-- that's a whole lotta Rosie!!<G>) 15x24, with superheat. I can *almost * read the order number, etc. on the tattered 5th-generation erection drawing I have here. She's not that complex. . . just a little tired. Lots of lumber companies had their way with her, and 'bout ran the wheels off . . . .Lots of wear distributed through. Lucky for us she's never been seriously hurt, so the frame is pretty close to straight. Check: http://www.ncry.org/roster/s_03rd/rd3.shtml for the short story. We got her as "Kit, Locomotive, Steam, 1:1 scale. Batteries not included, full assembly required. Model may require additional parts and paint to match photo on box. Ages 16 and up." There's something funny/sad about a steam locomotive up on blocks. . . I'd just hate to have her break or get on the ground with a load of people watching because I made a bad assumption about what something does and didn't leave enough wiggle room. We tried the Morse taper theory. . . one pin didn't go all the way into the hole, and we had to bounce the whole assembly around pretty hard to get it togeather. The other pin is sufficiently loose in the same exact assembly (wear or ?) that it falls out unless the bottom of the harness is present. Which tells me we're not understanding something about the assembly. Our sister locomotive (Quincy #2, also ALCo 2-6-2T) is so worn out that we frequently look at #3 to see how to fix #2. . .
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