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What? Not using some of these?
My plan is to run a Florida train, with maybe three Amfleet, a couple of chair cars and a sleeper.
Finally got around to working on this beast.Peteski did an admirable job repairing the dreaded Bachmann cracked axle gears. I'm planning to repower it with a Lifelike motor, but I figured I'd try the factory motor to see if the truck repairs held... worked really well. It's noisy as all get out, but it operates surprisingly well.The main problem is the low torque motor combined with the high friction pick up shoes in the Bachmann Amtoobs.
Thanks, @peteski ! Couldn't have done it without you!I'll have to put up a video... I've got one on my Hi Rail page on the facetoobs, but I don't think it shares easily...Lee
And on top of that, the seller threw in a couple of extra shells that someone had started doing a freelance paint job on. SBut it also raises a question about the extra shells... The only Shark listed on Spookshow is the E-R/Bachmann model. But I now have three shells that are clearly NOT from the same run.You can see differences in the roof detail, the pilot hole for the truck mounted coupler, and the grills down the long hood, and of course, the ER model has added on grab wires, while the other two are molded on.So what gives? Did @spookshow miss a model in the Encyclopedia? Did Mehano, or one of the other early manufacturers do a Shark? The black shell is definitely injection molded with big Mehano style slots along the sill to catch the frame (my example has a retrofitted Mehano FA drive, not an original equipment frame, so it's hard to tell specifically who did the shell) and the red one appears to be resin cast off of the black model with some minor modifications (no mounting holes, for instance).So what is the origin of this species? Am I in possession of some sort of rare and primitive N scale Artifact? Or was it an accident of nature that was missed by the scale's foremost authority on all things obscure?