One ongoing project is working on building a drive for a pre-war Nason gas-electric, one in the coach\/baggage\/mail configuration. I had looked for one of these for many years, and finally found this one a couple years ago. It was started nicely but had never been finished — so far as I can tell it may never had a drive or floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I worked up a floor and had a drive truck mounted, using a floor stock piece salvaged from another persons project. “Had,” as it occurred to me to check and see if I had the instructions? I do have them, and it turns out that I mounted the drive truck too close to the end, and a number of underframe details were kind of off as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The instructions themselves are really interesting. The illustrations are all full sized for OO, and they cover all three versions offered of the model. There is a boxy object under the floor with a lever off it; they used a manual reverser under the floor, I will leave that detail off of course, as I’m using my standard Athearn “blue box” drive parts with a small DC motor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m presently starting on a new drive that will match the original Nason in appearance. As I’ve wanted this model so long, I want to be sure it runs well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full instructions are below. Seeing them, I see the builder of the body left a couple details off — some pretty important — and unfortunately I’ve painted the body now. So I’ll need to ponder those details too, will likely eventually add them just to be complete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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