Tonight we move north of the border to see a Canadian National Railway's U-2-C Northern pulling frieght . CN engine appears to be Scale Model Railways engine from the late 1930's , brass & bronze construction ...weighs in at a mere 19 lbs! Universal motor...very happy to run for hours on end ...seems to like the exercise . Engine is delighted to crawl or race down the track. Pulling a string of frieght cars Lobaugh , Faber, and misc.
Please see link for action video .
Cheers Carey
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Nice.
Very nice! I'd be interested in seeing more of that 4-4-0 at 17 seconds into the video, is it Great Western?
Had successful back surgery today. 🙂
Sounds like it'll be a while before I would be allowed to pick THAT up!!! 😁
Mark in Oregon
PS: so when you are running a "universal" motor, what is your power source?
Nice model for the time period. even had a facsimile of the banjo frame. Would love to have a contemporary model of the same engine, but, alas, with world conditions as they are, probably highly improbable.
Hello all thank you for your kind words
Fun getting the toys to run
The little American is a modified Great Western I'll try to get a video of it some photos in a couple of days it's Unique
Mark glad to hear you're out of surgery hope you're feeling better.
I normally run everything on a DC lab generator... you can pick them up cheap on eBay.
I do have several 10 amp sources
But need to find some decent rheostats to vary the speed with
What does every one use for rheostats ?
Cheers Carey
I use Variacs. They are more efficient and seem to enable better control.
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