Sunday, October 5, 2014

Testing a new toy

 
There is a new locomotive coming to the Bogong & Geehi...
 
 


This is a model of G42 almost completely scratchbuilt by my friend Bernard Snoodyk. He brought it over for a test run last week and after a couple of tweaks it ran beautifully. He is now painting & weathering it to look as it did in the late 1940's for me. I can't wait!

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  1. Beautiful - what else needs to be said.

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  2. I'm loving the look of the engine. One question though. In the second picture, why is the front track gapped so much? Temperature change?

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    1. Hi Ron, yes the gap is from temperature change. We had an extremely hot summer and I had lots of trouble with rails buckling. I had to do some trimming and went a bit overboard making the gaps wider than I needed. Surprisingly I haven't had any issues with derailments on the wide gaps.

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  3. Just love it! Might be about time for a scale change! ;-)

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    1. Geoff, changing scales was one of the best things I ever did. For me O scale works so much better and I have found it very enjoyable.

      Cheers Murray

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