{"id":686,"date":"2009-04-11T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2021-06-19T15:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T15:38:53","slug":"a-oo-gauge-heavyweight-passenger-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Getting a passenger train rolling reliably"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a busy period for me professionally; it will slow down in a month, but time is a bit limited now. As much as I like writing about American OO trains, I do like working on and running trains more. My most recent project has been getting a passenger train running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years and years I have almost always ran freight trains. Sure, I have had passenger cars but never really tweaked them out to run reliably. This photo is the first two cars in the four car train I now have running well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004-2.jpg?resize=501%2C332&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1493\" width=\"501\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004-2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004-2.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004-2.jpg?resize=1536%2C1021&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004-2.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004-2.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First is a Scale-Craft baggage. This was purchased years ago from Dave Sacks. When I got it the car was in rough shape and painted blue. Paint stripper and a good paint job do miracles on these cars! But it still took some work to get it really to run right, I had to work on the wheelsets and also had to install longer shank couplers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second car is a Famoco combine. This I built up from a kit some years ago as well. The kit was given to me by Temple Nieter. This car looked good but was too tall. I had to spend a while working on the truck mounting to get it to the correct height. This car has Famoco wheelsets in S-C trucks, the wheelsets being the originals with the kit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just visible is the third car, which is an S-C coach also from Dave Sacks. He had modified\/modernized the windows and it also had an odd paint job. This car I plan to work over more this summer with a new S-C cast roof, to match the one on the baggage car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of sight is the final car in the train, a J-C Pullman, a purchase from a few years back that also needed some work on the trucks to track well on the layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result of the work is that full passenger trains roll on the rails of the Orient again! I hope to get more passenger cars in shape this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a busy period for me professionally; it will slow down in a month, but time is a bit limited now. 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