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Re: Hiawatha steam locomotive
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:21:39 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Benn Coifman wrote:
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We’ll I finally was able to snap a few photos of the front truck fix for my
Hiawatha at last
week’s show. Before the fix the engine ran fine at home but would always
derail at shows. After some diagnostics, it became clear that with the three
points of contact, ridges in the rails would lift the front trucks off the
tracks (the tables are a little un-smooth).
Here’s a thumbnail of my solution retrofitted on to the older design,
The front truck is rigidly fixed in line with the track, but is allowed to
drop down as much as is needed to follow the uneven track and it still
rotates to follow curves. If I were designing this engine from scratch, I
would have used technic beams to build the hinge, but that will have to wait
until the next steam engine.
Before the show I also completed the repaint from redish brown to dark red (I
still need to get a photo of the bucket of brown).
Although it is hard to tell from the photos, it does look strikingly
different in person. Cosmetically, I changed the start of the stripe on the
rear of the tender so that it is now a half circle rather than rectangular
(more prototypical) and wrapped the red around the very front of the orange
stripe on the locomotive (not prototypical, but looks better than it did as
long as I remain unwilling to try to bring the orange all the way around the
nose).
I also got tired of playing with the trainline to power the headlight from
the motors in the tender, so I stashed a battery box inside the boilder. Both
days of the show I forgot to turn of the headlight (Doh!).
On a semi related note, I got two better
shots of the GP20’s
too.
Benn
Hiawatha Full Gallery
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Very clever and simple design. The Train does look better with the dark red. And
the GPs are nice too.
It’s sweet that you were able to work in a headlight. Didn’t notice that before.
I haven’t messed with lighting too much. The 1x2 9v light brick is a little hard
to work into some designs. However I just got some of Rob Hendrix’s
Life Lites for a station
project and may look into using them for future locomotives. They’re very
compact and bright.
Cale
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