doctorwayne's Get off yer duff Challenge (Part I)

[doctorwayne]

.... With two tenders and two sets of drivers, she's a beast and a half.

Well, she'll run quite a way into an unpowered siding - maybe I should add pick-ups to the caboose, too.

The traction problem is probably plugged sanders.
Charlie

You might be right, Charlie...the second photo on page one of this thread shows the forward sand box filled with lead.

I did replace the original drawbar, as its front end pivoted with the rear engine, causing a lot of trouble on curves...either outright derailments of the tender and/or locomotive or causing the front end truck of the tender to lift off the rails. I had originally made a new drawbar that mounted beneath the rear of the cab, but instead went with the factory-supplied one, figuring perhaps it was designed to minimise problems. I soon found out that it performed very poorly with the closer coupling of the tender, and, after replacing it with the short rear-mounted one, tracking is much improved.

Wayne