1 : 1 scale modeling

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This weekends job was to finish up the rear truck clean up and installation..We first disconnected the sand, air, and motor wires from the truck and with help of the drop table we were able to move it over to the next track for cleaning.


With the truck spotted over a special track for cleaning oily, greasy, and otherwise yucky locomotive parts we removed all the covers and got to cleaning.

Here is a pic of the #3 motor that is coated with old engine oil.
Compare it with the pic of #4 motor witch is in pretty good shape.


With the covers off you can see how the motor brushes and commutator are coated with oil.

Now look at it after cleaning..

The car body got some TLC also...

Here is a shot of one of the motor covers that is covered with oil.

Spraying the cleaner that is a commercial form of pine-sol is a very messy job.. It 's hard to tell, but that's a person in an orange shirt under the truck spraying the cleaner on the motor..


Here's a view that not a lot of us get to see... the under side of an F-3 with the truck removed.

When the cleaning was finished we pushed the truck back onto the drop table and got ready to reinstall it.

We centered the truck under the king pin and reconnect all the wiers and hoses.

She'll get tested later but for now it's time to go home...but I grabed a few shots of the new headlight being preped for paint.



This one will replace the one that was damaged on the Steamtown's loco.

Although we were unable to find the source of the oil leak, we are pretty sure that it is old oil from some time ago, that was never cleaned off by the previous owner.