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New to this site..need info on Bowser 4-4-4-4 HO PRR Duplex..

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Posted by joseywales on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 5:33 PM

I was also looking at the high power flat can motor 1533 effiient power..works less then a 100 milliamps..he stated you can burn your finger tips trying to stop that motor..15mmx22mmx33mm long..i thing has shorter ones too... i'm going to try to video it and post it tonight.. having fun running it on an oval track..i'm going to have to invest in a snap track system...oh where can i find track layouts? my friend wants to do a big layout in his poll garage on top of his old office....he wants me to run my train at his place.. he has three grandsons too...plus my friend didnt know I was into trains too....i want to start a Prr fleet.. all the proto type locos...thats my favorites like the T-1 ...

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Posted by rjake4454 on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 7:17 PM

joseywales

i want to start a Prr fleet.. all the proto type locos...thats my favorites like the T-1 ...

Same here. I may have to work with 2 scales to accomplish this goal however. A lot of these engines are near impossible to find in HO hopefully BLI and MTH will change that.

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Posted by joseywales on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 7:27 PM

Ya you can find them,only in brass and that too much money for me...Want the S-1,S-2,Q-1,Q-2 and so forth..Hay how do I post a link??? I got the video but I had troubles in the past posting links...it pops up and say first select the tex that you want to make into a link...I'd copie the link and want to past but that saying pops up...need help please...

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Posted by joseywales on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 8:26 PM

heres the video.. http://www.youtube.com/user/misshydro#p/a/u/0/TjUcBT06Jpsmy girlfriend uploaded to her youtube..

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Posted by rjake4454 on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 10:52 PM

joseywales

heres the video.. http://www.youtube.com/user/misshydro#p/a/u/0/TjUcBT06Jpsmy girlfriend uploaded to her youtube..

Sweet. That thing has a nice bright headlight too, I'm surprised at how well it handles the sharp radii.

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Posted by joseywales on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 3:44 PM

Thats what I concittering for..Trying to sweet talk my girlfriend in buy me some passanger cars for christmas..Dont care what RR it is eighter.. I can repaint them to PRR colors and letter them...As it looks PRR is the most wanted ideam on ebay.. I was born and raised in PA...So that why I love PRR plus there awsome Prototype trains they built ...

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Posted by joseywales on Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:46 AM

I'll be posting more pics and video of my T-1 tonight.." mce_src="">

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Posted by joseywales on Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:11 PM

Any of you guys ever had troubles with the motors arking off the drive wheels??? the wheels have alittle slop from side to side.. when the train runs it starts to hit the armmiture of the motors..any ideas to solve this proublem..??Just want to fix this for temp until I get a new motor to remotor and redrive line the T-1..

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Posted by climaxpwr on Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:15 PM

You can take the red Kaydee spacer washers and notch them so you can snap them over the axles and remove the side to side slop to keep the wheels from touching the motor.  Mike

LHS mechanic and geniune train and antique garden tractor nut case! 

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Posted by Darth Santa Fe on Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:44 PM

Yeah, I had that problem with the rear motor. I used some thin plastic (like plastic bubble packaging) to make a small spacer/insulater between the motor and wheel. The only problem left that I have is the front truck derailing sometimes.

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Posted by joseywales on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:35 AM

I think I got it fixed.. had to reline the motors on there rear ...Dave I'd found pics of the T-1 pulling freight....Most done that at there end times before hitting the scrap piles..now she's running like a well oiled machine.....no derailing eighter.. in order to have this train running on 18" bowser forgot too add to remove the ends inside and outsides trucks wheels on the tender..now she can fly around the curves with no proublems.. later on I'll get 22"+ curves...money is tight ....

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Posted by joseywales on Thursday, December 24, 2009 4:05 PM

I'm sorry about that dave...Planning on getting a softwear that you speak into and it types it out for you..I hate typing..Dave I've found pics of T-1 sitting to be scaped and a freight one.. It's sad too..Photobucket' mce_src='Photobucket'>Photobucket' mce_src='Photobucket'>Photobucket' mce_src='Photobucket'>Photobucket' mce_src='Photobucket'>

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Posted by Darth Santa Fe on Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:04 PM

For anyone who might be interested, Bowser has temporarily restocked the 4-4-4-4 kits, as well as the mechanism kits for the Bachmann K-4, GS-4, and Niagara.

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Posted by joseywales on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 4:29 PM

Ok I've been away for awhile. Spring and summer I build a race R/C nitro boats.. Winter brings on the train bug..  Dugout the T-1 duplex.. now I want to update it.. putting  in led lights repainting it to brunswick green and want to re-motor it witn one motor...just want to modernize it...

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