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Mitch;

I am not, in general, an enabler, so I know I am going to regret this... I have an old MPC Pennsy EP-5 which has been packed away for at least 20 years, and I have no plans to ever run this engine again. I only run command control these days and I am loathe to unwire things to see if everything is still working (that is the first corollary of Techno-Peasantry, aka if it ain't broke, mess with it not). That being said, you and your menagerie do bring a great deal of pleasure to the community in general (not to mention amusement to this Forum), so I would gladly donate the boarderline boneyard engine to you for a second chance at life. If you are interested, let me know where to send it.

And now, in keeping with my usual attitude this time of year, 

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Apples55 posted:

Mitch;

I am not, in general, an enabler, so I know I am going to regret this... I have an old MPC Pennsy EP-5 which has been packed away for at least 20 years, and I have no plans to ever run this engine again. I only run command control these days and I am loathe to unwire things to see if everything is still working (that is the first corollary of Techno-Peasantry, aka if it ain't broke, mess with it not). That being said, you and your menagerie do bring a great deal of pleasure to the community in general (not to mention amusement to this Forum), so I would gladly donate the boarderline boneyard engine to you for a second chance at life. If you are interested, let me know where to send it.

Blessings upon thee!  I shall email your profile email with my address.   

I thank you, and Fortescue thanks you!   ^.^ 

And now, in keeping with my usual attitude this time of year, 

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Heh.  Alastair Sim is my fave Scrooge as well!  

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2c1woo

Mitch 

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:
Apples55 posted:

Mitch;

I am not, in general, an enabler, so I know I am going to regret this... I have an old MPC Pennsy EP-5 which has been packed away for at least 20 years, and I have no plans to ever run this engine again. I only run command control these days and I am loathe to unwire things to see if everything is still working (that is the first corollary of Techno-Peasantry, aka if it ain't broke, mess with it not). That being said, you and your menagerie do bring a great deal of pleasure to the community in general (not to mention amusement to this Forum), so I would gladly donate the boarderline boneyard engine to you for a second chance at life. If you are interested, let me know where to send it.

Blessings upon thee!  I shall email your profile email with my address.   

I thank you, and Fortescue thanks you!   ^.^ 

And now, in keeping with my usual attitude this time of year, 

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Heh.  Alastair Sim is my fave Scrooge as well!  

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2c1woo

Mitch 

Mitch;

As we used to say back in my days of paying disability and death claims, the check is in the mail. Wow... I can still do that with a straight face!!!

Hopefully Norma B. will approve of the new motive power.

An interesting side note... I was thinking about where I purchased the engine. I finally remembered that it came from Madison Hardware back in the 80's. They didn't have the box, just the foam insert, so Lou wrapped it in brown paper (which he did for many purchases). I removed the 30+ year old dusty crumbling paper before I packed it up.

I'll e-mail you the tracking number.

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The gi-raffs had a meeting... any bobbing rhinos will be located AHEAD of any gi-raffs 

No fools, they.   

Apples55 posted:
 

As we used to say back in my days of paying disability and death claims, the check is in the mail. Wow... I can still do that with a straight face!!!

Yay!

Hopefully Norma B. will approve of the new motive power.

An interesting side note... I was thinking about where I purchased the engine. I finally remembered that it came from Madison Hardware back in the 80's. They didn't have the box, just the foam insert, so Lou wrapped it in brown paper (which he did for many purchases). I removed the 30+ year old dusty crumbling paper before I packed it up.

Wow!  Doubly magic!  Again, many thanks!    

Mitch 

Paul's Pennsy EP-5 from Madison Hardware showed up, and it's a beauty!  <3 

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First order of business before the test run:  Pop off the shell and oil the top motor bearing...

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One of the 161-300 wedge base bulbs was burned out, so a 19-300 pin base bulb was pressed into service.  

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The Blue Beauty on its maiden voyage, handling 10 gi-raffe cars and a caboose without breaking a sweat! 

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Future mods include installing an electronic horn, painting the pilots and sideframes to match the darker blue, and possibly upgrading the headlights to LEDs...

Once again, a million thanks to Paul for making this possible!   

Mitch 

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M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Paul's Pennsy EP-5 from Madison Hardware showed up, and it's a beauty!  <3 

 

First order of business before the test run:  Pop off the shell and oil the top motor bearing...

One of the 161-300 wedge base bulbs was burned out, so a 19-300 pin base bulb was pressed into service.  

The Blue Beauty on its maiden voyage, handling 10 gi-raffe cars and a caboose without breaking a sweat! 

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Future mods include installing an electronic horn, painting the pilots and sideframes to match the darker blue, and possibly upgrading the headlights to LEDs...

Once again, a million thanks to Paul for making this possible!   

Mitch 

I guess I am officially an enabler... should have made it an anonymous donation!!! Looks like I've got one foot on the slippery slope, and one foot on a banana peel.

Glad I could help, Mitch, and glad the engine has found a good home where it will see some use.

Merry Christmas to you and the managerie  

Paint job completed!  

I decided to use the postwar floor, a) to keep the MPC floor with the Pennsy shell and b) take advantage of the postwar floor's metal battery box's extra weight and bakeability for the enamel...  

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Dunno where the sockets that came with the PW floor came from, but I added wiring to them. 

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Floor and trucks torn down and masked for painting... 

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While the primer was baking,  I cut down a plastic drinking cup for the speaker resonator.

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Since I had the power truck out, fresh traction tires replaced the 30+ year old ones. 

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Primered! 

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We shall skip the painting and reassembly, as I was too busy getting fiddly bits right to take happy snaps. 

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After I finished painting, I realized I'd intended to use darker blue on the trucks and underbody.   Oh, well.  Turned out nice anyway, sorta reminiscent of the British Deltic locos... 

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Test run on the point of a gi-raffe train!  

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And on the point of my Blue Comet consist, with Norma Bates Kitteh supervising:

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Norma gives Fortescue the stinkeye... 

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Came out pretty good, if I do say so myself! 

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Mitch 

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