{"id":803,"date":"2008-05-31T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=803"},"modified":"2021-06-16T21:55:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:55:01","slug":"a-drive-for-the-e-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"A drive for the E-7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As this is the third post in a row on locomotives, it should be noted that one thing I don\u2019t have enough of are locomotives that actually run well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One eBay purchase a few years back was a pair of the M. P. Davis\/Cusawego Valley Railroad OO Scale Models E units, the E-7A and B. Produced in the post-war period, a previous owner had tried to finish these but had left them incomplete with no drive. In looking at potential drive units, the overall wheelbase of a HO PA-1 truck is about right for an OO E-7 so I started looking and found a deal on a set of three Athearn PA-1 locomotives at a train show, two powered and one dummy. Looking at all the parts again this week I realized the easiest way to do this was to split the drives so that one motor powered the front truck and one powered the rear truck of the A unit, as illustrated in the photo. The unused drive shafts also have to be shortened slightly so they don\u2019t interfere.<\/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.jpg?resize=462%2C307&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1081\" width=\"462\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004.jpg?resize=1536%2C1021&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This thing really pulls! I normally don\u2019t run freight trains of over ten car trains on my layout and this can pull that number with ease. I love the gearing, the dual motors, the flywheels, and the twelve wheel electrical pickup. I have a long ways to go on the bodies and I am not certain what I will do about sideframes (I have the original Davis sideframes but they are overscale and very heavy looking\u2014I may use the PA sideframes until I find something better) but passenger trains will start rolling soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE: This will pull as many passenger cars as I can run on my layout plus the B-unit as a dummy. The bodies of these two locomotives will be a big job but I will start working in it over the coming weeks, but maybe after I do some steam locomotive work as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this is the third post in a row on locomotives, it should be noted that one thing I don\u2019t have enough of are locomotives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-m-p-davis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/americanootoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/004.jpg?fit=1600%2C1064&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}