I was looking at the back of my IHC track cleaner's box & saw a advertisement for a SP 4-8-8-2 Cab-Fowards & a UP Bigboy or Challenger. Is this true that IHC made these?
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Yep.
Rotor
Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...
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BigRusty wrote:I have one of each of these with pizza cutter wheels probably circa 1960. I have painted them and weathered them and they are very nice looking and operate well. They ran fine on Code 100 rail, but now that I have bought Code 83 ME flex track for my new layout I won't be able to run them anymore.
You may be able to grind the flanges down if you have something like a Dremel moto-tool. I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard of people successfully grinding them down before.
Darth Santa Fe wrote: BigRusty wrote:I have one of each of these with pizza cutter wheels probably circa 1960. I have painted them and weathered them and they are very nice looking and operate well. They ran fine on Code 100 rail, but now that I have bought Code 83 ME flex track for my new layout I won't be able to run them anymore.You may be able to grind the flanges down if you have something like a Dremel moto-tool. I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard of people successfully grinding them down before.
It would be best to turn the wheel flanges down on a small lathe, rather than try to do it with a Dremel. It would be pretty tough to get the flanges concentric with a Dremel.