Decided to try my hand at one of Ted Stinson’s locomotive kits from Northeast Model Products. It’s not quite as good as the stuff the he makes but I like it! I am waiting the arrival of the Magic Carpet drives from NWSL to complete the project. Will post a video of it running after I get them.
NICE Timmy , always wondered how those kits turned out?!
cale
Timmy
Take’er easy and take your time adding the Magic Carpet’s, the one I used on an early Goose was a serious PITA to get wired for adequate power supply so that it didn’t stall on every switch frog.
Looking real good BTW
Looks great it reminds me that I still have to paint my Bigb John Cant wait to see the video
I like the natural wood look!
Neat project
I replaced the links to the invidivual pictures at the beginning of this thread with a link to the new pictures taken. They are much cleaner looking with the new camera.
Still waiting for the Magic Carpet drives. Stay tuned.
Nice web site, thanks for sharing
Ran into a glitch with the completion of my Climax. It appears that the outfit that purchased NWSL does not have any Magic Carpet drives and may not for a number of months. Is there another solution to power this thing?
I used Aristo centercab bricks for mine, have to look into the MLS archives to find the building logs.
Victor Smith said:
I used Aristo centercab bricks for mine, have to look into the MLS archives to find the building logs.
Timmy: I built my Class A using the same plans as your NENG kit, with some changes to utilize stock styrene sizes and plastic pipe for the boiler. I powered mine using the Arito centercab blocks (per Victor’s MSL entry) and it is working great. Let me know next time you are running at TOC’S (Dave Goodson’s) and I will be sure to bring it.
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jlcop/ClassAPaint1.jpg)
John
I used the small 2 axle drives from Hartland on my Class A, but it was a total scratch build. Made the sideframes from some cut New Bright trucks that I lengthened some.
Well seams like just about ALL of my older posts on the GR forum have been ERASED, so sorry Timmy, that included my how-to for the Aristo blocks. 
Vic,
unfortunately, most of the accompanying photographs are not available. This is your build log on MLS (that I saved from the old days)
Thanks guys! All I am asking here is an alternative method of powering this thing since we are no able to aquire the Magic Carpet Drives.
I have been thinking of pushing it with a powered tender. Anyone have one for sale?
Hey Timmy I found it!!
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/35895/462405.aspx#462405
Consider this idea
Thanks Tim, yeh I have to downsize my file load periodicly, so some pics get axed.
Victor Smith said:That's the one thing that bothers me about all of these on-line forums. You can search the archives and find what would be very good information, only to find that the pictures no longer exist.
Thanks Tim, yeh I have to downsize my file load periodicly, so some pics get axed.
I’ve tried awfully hard not to break any of the links I post as far back as I can remember. I now have a hosting service that allows for more than I could ever upload, so I never need to delete anything. When I left MLS and changed to this service a few years ago it broke lots of links, but I kept all the photos on-line at the new host so I can repair any reported broken links on forums that allow editing of old posts.
The alternative is the way LYSOL runs their ship. But the down-side to that is that JDK claims full ownership rights to all content you post there, which I don’t believe is fair either. I’d rather see broken links than to see people’s work ripped off so someone can make a buck.
So, I guess we just need to ask Vic to spend a couple of months recreating all those old build logs for those of us that never saw his work 
They key here is to host the images yourself. All the images I post are hosted on my servers. As long as they are up … the links are up anywhere.
So… what are these Aristo units?
ART 29356 Centre cab drive block
ART 29358 Railbus drive block, (similar to above but with passenger truck sideframes is a possible alternative).
If unable to source online, then Al Kramer has purchased a west coast distributors entire Aristo stock. Has them listed on eBay ‘ana.kramer’