Some months ago I bought an old Valiant HO-scale brass E9, intending to display it on a shelf. A few days ago I removed the shell while cleaning it up, and noticed these nice individually-powered trucks.
After putting it back together I ran it for a little while on a quick-and-dirty test track, on “Pulse” power from an old MRC 501 power pack, and it was surprisingly smooth at very low speed. I don’t know the history of this model but have to appreciate the good engineering and craftsmanship that went into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzMQDGEQEtI
Nice!
What is the amp draw of that beast?
David B
Not sure about the amps… I’ll have to get a meter on it sometime and take a look. It sure has a solid feel to it. Gotta love stuff like that!
Slow running is a bit of a misnomer I would say, more like “no visible movement detected” would describe it. At that speed in real life or a model there would be reason for a locomotive to ever run at that “SPEED”
Certainly, no point in just barely crawling along like that for any distance–I just liked the fact that the mechanism is good enough to do it. And from a modeling perspective, if I were going to run this locomotive instead of display it, I’d appreciate its ability to consistently come to a smooth stop.
Great low end. Can it make the prototypes top end speed?
Richard