I’ve had this for a few years, bought it off Craigs list from a mom, with a special needs son, and she didn’t understand just what she had.
Long story short, she advertised it as HO because she bought HO track to run it on.
Her son had it running around his bedroom, just about desk level, any time he was in the room, the train was running.
We met at a Burger King parking lot, she brought out the box, and I immediately seen what is was. On30. I bought it anyway. I could go for for a change.
Got it out of the box today, to see how it runs. My plans are a new Christmas/holiday train.
It was full of lint, but after cleaning, it runs fine. Just one problem. The only axle that drives is the rear one, although all wheels have wipers for electrical contact.
There is a very noticable “slop” in the center axle, on the engineers side, that seems to give the loco some split second hesitation, as it tries to move the middle and front axle with the rods. The center wheel comes off the rails at a certain point, on the engineers side, as the loco tries to run.
I’m going to try and shim the center axle, to get it to run smoothly, and stop the wheel slop.
As soon as Photobucket gets back together, I’ll post pictures.
The axle rides on the metal frame/weight on the top side, and plastic on the bottom.
I haven’t measured yet, to see if I need to shim the top, or the bottom, I’m guessing it’s the bottom axle race, as it’s plastic.
It makes me think that this loco ran in one direction for all of it’s previous life.
Not really any questions, just thought I’d talk about it, and see if anyone has experience with something like this.
My LHS has Micro Engineering On30 track.
Mike.