A wooden trolley car that runs

[ezdays]

Thanks guys. Charlie, I do it because it's a great distraction. While I'm working on these models, nothing else matters and I forget about any personal or world issues for a while. Besides, I really like the challenge, if you don't follow the plan exactly, you will screw up somewhere else along the line.

That being said, I now have about four hours into this and have completed the first two steps (actually there were 24 sub-steps). The spring motor, first few gears and brake are installed and hidden, so if I didn't get them right, see my above statement. To be sure, so far the gears do turn, so I'm on to step 3. One thing that takes so long is that all the gears need to be waxed to lubricate them, you can see that on the main gear in step 1.

Step 1:
   

Step 2, top and bottom: