Converting an Ertl Farm Country Train to Flyer Hi-Rail.

[Railroader_Sailor_SSN-760]

For a few years now, I have had most of Ertl's mid-1990's "1/64 scale" train set, minus the buildings, couplings on the loco and the caboose.

I have done some testing with the engine and the two cars that I have that were in the set (a boxcar, and a flatcar), and they are indeed S-gauge, but the flanges are too thick to traverse switches and anything else that the flanges might catch on.

With my recent home purchase, I finally have been able to unpack boxes upon boxes of trains of all scales that I have collected over the years, and I found a parts box that I bought at a train show some years back that has mostly American Flyer parts, and in the box is a set of trucks from a Flyer Baldwin switcher, and a lone Baldwin dummy truck that has been heavily modified (more on that in a different post). It turns out that the wheelbase of the Baldwin truck and the Ertl truck are close.

So, I think I may have found what I need to make the Ertl engine run on Flyer tracks. I think it is supposed to be a GP40, but I am not entirely positive.

Here are some relevant pictures:

This is my temporary layout (at least until I finish prepping the train room for permanent layouts), that at least allows me to run some Flyer trains, with my 322 and it's consist on the main line, my wife's Lionel AF UP docksider, with a Ford boxcar, and the Marine boxcar from the first Defender set on the siding, with the aforementioned Ertl GP40(?), near our Flyer 234 for reference:

Here is the side profile of the Ertl loco in question:

The Ertl GP40(?) next to the 234, note that the 234 is being restored, and hence is sitting on a "borrowed" set of sideframes on the front:

Here are some shots of the Ertl loco with the Baldwin power truck. The drive gear on the truck has been replaced some time ago with part to a U-joint:

Any advice/questions/suggestions?

[thesiding]

So someone has this      pity it did not get more exposure cause it was a nice"toy" train

Possible thought did you try pike master or S gauge helper or other brands of track?

[Railroader_Sailor_SSN-760]

I have some Pikemaster track, but it is still boxed up, and I do not have any other brand of S gauge track, other than AF.