Re: tyco motorized tender
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kbkchooch
?Best to relegate that turkey to the boneyard. ?They run bad on a good day. If you had the engine, you could always pair it up with a regular tender to , in effect, make a dummy put of it.
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I've been known at shows to have a coal drag with 2 consolidations on the front, and a mid-train or a rear end "helper, which is really a dummy. One in Western Maryland and 1 in ?B&O.  ?Pics are in my photo album, Karl's Kustoms.Cheers, Karl Bond ? --- In yardbirdtrains@..., "trainsnwrcs" wrote:
> > No battery. Track power. The locomotive wheels picked up power from the other rail, there was a wire between the engine and tender. > The loco was a 2-8-0, later due to inability to keep the lead truck consistently on the rails, a 0-8-0. > Look for a 2-8-0 or 0-8-0 in the pile....no motor and more inportantly, no gear on any axle. > That will be the one. > Look on HO Seeker for drawings/instructions. > Dave > > --- In yardbirdtrains@..., Alan Kilby albyrno@ wrote: > > > > Dave, > > ?Thanks for the info. it looks rather toylike except theres nowhere to put a battery.There are several locos with burnt out or no motors in lot,one an o-6-o ?which would likely work but would look funny pulling a long haul tender, not as funny as 1 of the many 0-4-0 saddle tankers in lot though,might be a good candidate to give to my son,says he doesn't like trains but he sure likes to run them,there is also a gallon freezer bag full of kemtron,cal-scale cary,detail associates,psc and who knows what other detail parts in packages I haven't looked at yet,also got the balboa 4-4-0 and I started assembling it ?last night other than drawbar spring and insulating washer,bell,piping to whistle it looks like everythings there being loose parts in a box I am surprised.Bottom cover plate was warped and driver axles were binding which I corrected by drawfiling cover. > > ? Alan > > > |