Most folks hate them...some folks like them...The Hi-F Drive when maintained I feel runs smooth...
Here is a early Athearn F7 on our small HO layout.
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"HONGZ" stands for HO scale, N scale, G scale, and Z scale.
Post your non-O scale stuff here!
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Ah, yes. The original "Warp Drive."
Rusty
Are those the ones with the rubber band drive? We used to call them "binder bombs."
In Minnesota, a rubber band is called a binder or a rubber binder.
I still have the Milwaukee Road A-B set that my brother gave me for Christmas around 1959 or so.
S-p-r-o-i-n-g! Ah, yes, from when I first foolishly abandoned three rail Marx for HO,
so long ago and far away when all the world was young (well, I was, anyway).
For some reason, Athearn never saw fit to update the RDC's to gear drive.
But with the Walthers Proto 2000 RDC's and the upcoming Rapido Trains RDC's, it wouldn't make any sense nowadays.
Rusty
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Looks like Athearn, at least, did scale RDC-3's, which don't exist in O three-rail.
Actually, the Athearn RDC's are about 10' too short. There was even an article in the November 1958 Model Railroader on lengthening them, along with other improvements.
Probably the best HO RDC's are coming from Rapido Trains. They'll be doing the -1, -2, -3 and maybe the -4.
Rusty
I had some of those Hi-Fi drives back in the mid-late 60s: ATSF cigar band freight F7s!
I don't recall mine running as good as in the video. My Tyco (back when Tyco was decent) ATSF cigar band F unit performed smoother and slower, as I recall.
Cool thread!
How do you "Like" a topic here? (I've seen it done here before.)
laming,
On the right hand column, a few notches down from the top, there is an underlined "like this topic."
Perhaps the word "Highball" referenced these engines.
Brad
Thanks RoyBoy: 'Tis now "Liked"!!
