Old Rivarossi UP FEF upgraded

[Schraddel]

Jack!

This cardan shafts are out of my grab box. They are made by Liliput (Austria) and were siuted for their H0 models of German Standard Electrics (E10, E40) .
And yes, you are right, the slots shold be set in angle of 90° to each other. But alas Liliput made it so in this manner because it is easier (and cheaper) to build the mould for it.



An other photo when the electrics were done. The Liliput cardan shaft meshes into two horned balls each on motor and gearbox shafts. These horned balls are from Roco. This are reinforced replacement parts because the original Roco and Liliputhorned balls were prone for cracking.
The motor is now fixed with an bracket made out of an strip of brass sheet.
Simply glued onto the motor is an 8-pin NMRA socket. The wire colours are according to NMRA and the only "luxury" is an lighted front light. All current pick up is from the loco only and because of it's size and number of wheels it is enough to guarantee troublefree operating.


Now a decoder is simply plugged in. In this case a ESU Lopi Basic.
There was also additional ballast added in form of lead sheets.


Test running the loco and programming the decoder on my small layout.


Light check, photo without flash. A 3mm warm white flathead LED paired with an 1kohm resistor replaced the bulb.


The whole beast. Too big for my layout. You need much of space to present her in an adequate environment. Imagine her running at speed over the Prairie pulling a 15 car consist of City Of San Francisco or else.
No doubt the old Rivarossi steamer is now capable to to so if - sigh... - you have the room and space there for.


A closer look onto the drivers with their now fine flanges.

Enjoy

Lutz