The Only Photo

Torby · June 18, 2018, 5:53pm

The Coweta Southern Garden Railroad has its last “Tour” Saturday June 16. Sullivans are moving to Florida this fall or earlier. We’re figuring on a big photo session next weekend to record everything.

Any how, I never thought to take pictures. The trains ran fairly well with help from Tom Bakula and Don Dow. My Mallet, as usual, did duty on the west loop. This was the first time she had pulled my freight cars here. With most of Sully’s freight cars for sale or sold, I used mine to fill out the railroad. I had intended one of Sully’s Dash 9’s to do that job, but he had accidentally sold all his Revolution remotes. Tom B brought his back, but it wouldn’t link to the loco. It’s always handy to have a spare.

Near the end of the day, my Mallet just fell over. Very strange. As I was headed over to rescue it, Dennis Rayon said, “Not till we take a picture!” I hadn’t even thought to take pictures.

Joe_Zullo · June 18, 2018, 7:34pm

I HATE when that happens! (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-frown.gif)

Greg_Greg_Elmassian · June 18, 2018, 8:22pm

Maybe it was tired?

David_Maynard1 · June 18, 2018, 10:21pm

Heat exhaustion?

SteveF · June 18, 2018, 11:58pm

Check for drivers out of quarter, or wheels coming loose. Mine just fell over like that, and that was the problem. If it doesn’t get fixed, you can really screw things up. Ax me how I know.

Torby · June 19, 2018, 1:29pm

It had a wheel out of quarter earlier in the day. After some recovery time (for me), I’ll get batteries charged, examine the Dash 9 again and investigate my old loco.

Greg_Greg_Elmassian · June 19, 2018, 3:34pm

Tom, how have you modified your Mallet to stop wheel slippage? Just curious. My best success is lapping the wheels to the axles.

Greg

Boomer_K_MOGWAI · June 19, 2018, 4:11pm

Tom

I remember Sulley’s railroad from the convention last year. What an impressive layout. Would have liked to run on it myself.

Oh he had trains too! You guys were probably there for that part.

Well I wish him well. Glad you guys got to do one last run.

Greg_Greg_Elmassian · June 19, 2018, 4:20pm

Hard to tell, but zooming in on the picture, it looks like the first driver on the Mallet is indeed way out of sync.

Again, after all the issues you have had with that Mallet, what you have done to minimize driver slipping is of interest.

Greg

Torby · June 21, 2018, 4:35pm

Haven’t done anything to reduce slippage. Can’t you tell? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-sealed.gif)I did replace the screws made of play-doh with stainless so it torks better.