Rob, if you look at the last photo in the original post of this thread, I think you can see how Ira's motor uses one axle of a McCoy truck and is made to fit into the rest of the truck. I am not 100% sure of this, but I don't think it will fit in the GG-1 truck. My own GG-1 power trucks have been modified - lucky me - so I can't look at or measure a Daniel original to see. I bought my Daniel set from Caryl Pettijohn - it is the same set that is seen running in the Tinplate in Action Video #5. Caryl had someone (?) replace the motors and zinc-pest trucks in this GG-1, and the result is that it has a lot more power and traction and pulls great. I will be seeing Caryl at York in a couple weeks and am going to ask for the name of who did this, because it really is the solution. He used a can motor, horizontal, with a shaft at each end of the motor with worm gear drives on each shaft, so both axles of the truck are powered. He did this with both power trucks. He milled out some steel plates that slip inside the original truck sides; the plates hold the ends of the axles, and you can't see them because they are hidden behind the cast trucks. The result is stellar. I have been working on my own trying to replicate this set-up, and so far have found a motor that works but am still trying to get the right axle gears to fit the worm. One way or the other, I will get this figured out in the near future and have a solution for the GG-1.
david
