Jan’s question to her wanting to run the unit at Ridge Live Steamers in Florida during the Winter was, “Ric, you can make that changeable, right?”
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The unit was built by a Rich Mock of the Tonawanda Creek Model Engineers and the Mud Creek Live Steamers. The original railroad was the Weehawkin, Hoboken & Troy from a 1948 book called “Little Hank” about Hank the Hand Car. A copy of the book came with the engine.
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So, this is what I’ve been working on lately. With help from a local welding shop, put a new axle under the rear end and made the rear wheels adjustable from 4.75 inches between the rails to 7.25 and 7.5 inches. The front wheel change has been accomplished with different trucks for the 3 track sizes in the 2 scales of 1 inch and 1.5 inch scales. The former front fenders were put over the rear wheels, as the new rear fenders. And new front fenders were constructed. Also installed a battery charger and L.E.D. lights both front and rear, plus ditch lights. Also installed new couplers for both scales and a hand held throttle, plus new switches for direction and to control the L.E.D’s. If you haven’t checked out -
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www.SuperbrightLED.com
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I think you’ll find it interesting.
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Final touch up of paint, re-lettering for the Kaskaskia Valley Railway and signage is going on, while we are in route to the track at the Ridge Live Steamers in Dundee, Florida.
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Fun project. More pictures to follow once it proves itself going down the track. Maybe I’ll eventually remember how to get pictures from my phone to LSC. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
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