Thank you Peter! I would love to do a replacement of the tower like that with chain drive. In general it would be valuable (and honestly fun) to get the machinery to do all this. Chris posted a site that has belt and gear components (and a lot of good info). Is that where you get your parts?
It would be great to change the gearing a bit from the current ratio as I tend to like to run super slow crawl and not really go at a scale top speed (dont need to make time over my small ovals
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I have put the model away for the moment but would gladly bring it back to the bench. It took quite a bit of time but I worked out all the binds and it is running pretty well. But it does not crawl like I would like. Since I seem to be buying used KTM and Overland brass remotoring and gearing and drive train work is of a lot of value. I just bought a little book titled Upgrading The Running Performance of Your Brass Steam Locomotives from NWSL. So I am looking for information like what you have posted here. Thank you again for sharing that and taking the time to document it. For me, this group is just such a great thing!
Thanks on the screws, yes I have been replacing with black and my screwdriver set has a magnetizing magnet that makes working the screws so much easier. Great tip that I just stumbled on.
Also thank you for the test track idea. I have only a 36" gargraves wired for two rail or three rail (as I am still running both) but it is straight. Will look to expand to curved as well.
Cheers!