{"id":600,"date":"2009-12-12T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2021-06-20T14:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T14:17:03","slug":"one-vintage-approach-to-re-motoring-an-s-c-4-6-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"One Vintage Approach to Re-motoring an S-C 4-6-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first Scale-Craft locomotive I ever owned was this 4-6-0 rebuilt by David Sacks. He was an active OO gauger<\/a>, originally was involved with the North Jersey group and then later lived in California. When I bought this from him in 1982 he sent this photo as a post card with the following note: \u201cYour choo-choo + cars shipped today \u2013 Dec. 29. Pic shows your loco.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As purchased it looked exactly like this. Greenbrook #18 was a rebuilt Scale-Craft 4-6-0. Basically he did four things to it besides the paint job:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Changed the motor over to a large DC permag motor.
2. “Streamlined” the body with brass side panels and a lot of glue, in the process also adding more weight and physically gluing the body to the frame!
3. Switched the loco over to use the tender from a Nason 2-8-0.
4. Changed the wheelsets in the pilot truck of the engine to smaller diameter wheels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the plus side the engine ran when purchased on DC! The other work on the model however was in ways a little crude. I stripped off all the paint and glue and brass panels and weights, restored the mounting of the body to be with screws, and the front truck I rebuilt with RP-25 contour wheelsets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I still have the side panels, which I have put in this close up photo, but I want to focus in for our purposes today on the motor conversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have no idea the maker of the motor on this model. What I will say though is to do this you would have to sacrifice the original motor for a portion of the drive shaft, the part that is visible coming out of the gear box. He then drilled a hole through the shaft to add the wire needed to make it mate up with the universal coupling on the motor shaft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The model itself still runs OK. Rather noisy! But it gets down the line! Prior to taking this photo I had it pulling a dozen average to free rolling OO cars around the layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of layouts, his layout was pretty large. You can pick up a few things about it from the photo, and that he was still active making equipment such as the converted HO hopper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE 2011: One thing I did not notice until recently is that this specific model was originally shipped out with the S-C DC motor instead of their later AC\/DC universal motor. The way to tell is that the gear tower is angled instead of having a horizontal drive shaft to the motor. I have an early motor on hand and I am not that pleased with how this model runs; be watching for another update on setting this back up with the original motor type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE 2011 #2–it has a new motor now! I had a spare, original SC DC motor and switched to that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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