Hey Y’all;
Some progress made on a very, very, slow project. With any luck maybe it might, maybe, could possibly, be finished by end of this summer.
Finally getting around to designing the body for a 3 unit mining electric from HLW Macks. They will supply the drive and chassis wiht scratchbuilt bodies.
Am calling the models 1/24 scale for simplicity of measurement. And it seems close to what the Bachmann 4-6-0 look like. And I think it makes the track proportionally right about 42 inch, 3ft6in, 1066mm, gauge.
Alternative being pondered is to scale the cab for those 4 inch tall action figures, something like 1/18 to 1/16 scale, which makes the track work out about 30 inch gauge, or close enough for me to assume it is that.
Whatver cars this thing pulls are likely going to be scratchbuilt, mostly for the sake of money, and to a certain point, larger scale might be simpler.
Body styling will be rather freelanced but inspired by things seen on http://www.rail.lu/ “The Railways in and around Luxembourg”.
Working up design via combination of SketchUp and pencil on poster paper.
Still to design cab, which is the center unit.
Attached is current state of body design; long way yet to go.
EDIT: haven’t used my Photobucket for ages, had to reset password to get in.
Now, let’s see if this works. 
Plan is to run m.u. jumpers between motor blocks so as to share electrical pickup of all 12 wheels: will use plugs from RC car supplies.
Yet to decide to couple or to drawbar the units together. Is for my “Willow Creek Traction” which uses hook and loop couplers left over from putting knuckles on everything else; so, since stock HLW couplers on Macks are loop only, mountings are being fabricated for those leftover Bachmann couplers.
Stay tuned for further developments, but don’t hold your breath until they happen 
later,
Forrest Scott Wood, Boonville, Missouri
