This was American Flyer product 2121100, a 2021 S Scale Legacy Pacific. I painted the tender to cover the factory lettering and then decaled locomotive and tender to match prototype L&N 241 using decals purchased from the L&N Historical Society. I made number boards for the headlight and taillight cans simply using Microsoft Word and printer paper. Last was weathering with Pan Pastels and spraying with Tamiya's flat clear.
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It look a lot better Chuck. It also has a Kadee coupler. I bought three of these, the Santa Fe, NYC and GN. The GN green looks much better than the catalog rendering. All three have some amount of lurching on startup one will stall on speed step 1, the other two run at 1 but not smoothly. Yours looked like it started better than any of mine, did you do anything special?
@AmFlyer posted:It look a lot better Chuck. It also has a Kadee coupler. I bought three of these, the Santa Fe, NYC and GN. The GN green looks much better than the catalog rendering. All three have some amount of lurching on startup one will stall on speed step 1, the other two run at 1 but not smoothly. Yours looked like it started better than any of mine, did you do anything special?
No Tom, nothing special. Just the regular oiling I do with all new ones. Mine has a little hesitation as well on step 1.
Great looking engine! JohnA
Chuck and AmFlyer: I purchased the GN version and when new it had a very tight mechanism. Once oiled and broken in for an hour or two, the lurch/hesitation on speed step 1 finally resolved itself into a fine runner.
nice work!
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