[?] IHC Made Cab-Fowards?

[New_Haven_I-5]

I was looking at the back of my IHC track cleaner’s box & saw a advertisement for a SP 4-8-8-2 Cab-Fowards & a UP Bigboy or Challenger. Is this true that IHC made these?

[Rotorranch]

Yep.

Rotor

[Darth_Santa_Fe]

For their first few years in business, IHC imported Rivarossi products. These weren’t the updated ones with small flanges and boiler mounted can motors. They charged ridiculous prices for them, like $450 for a Big Boy, and this was back around 1990!

[BigRusty]

I have one of each of these with pizza cutter wheels probably circa 1960. I have painted them and weathered them and they are very nice looking and operate well. They ran fine on Code 100 rail, but now that I have bought Code 83 ME flex track for my new layout I won’t be able to run them anymore.

[Darth_Santa_Fe]

I have one of each of these with pizza cutter wheels probably circa 1960. I have painted them and weathered them and they are very nice looking and operate well. They ran fine on Code 100 rail, but now that I have bought Code 83 ME flex track for my new layout I won’t be able to run them anymore.

You may be able to grind the flanges down if you have something like a Dremel moto-tool. I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve heard of people successfully grinding them down before.

[Rotorranch]

I have one of each of these with pizza cutter wheels probably circa 1960. I have painted them and weathered them and they are very nice looking and operate well. They ran fine on Code 100 rail, but now that I have bought Code 83 ME flex track for my new layout I won’t be able to run them anymore.

You may be able to grind the flanges down if you have something like a Dremel moto-tool. I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve heard of people successfully grinding them down before.

It would be best to turn the wheel flanges down on a small lathe, rather than try to do it with a Dremel. It would be pretty tough to get the flanges concentric with a Dremel.

Rotor