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I've used oven cleaner with good results. Brake fluid was hit n miss, destroyed some shells with it.

Check out the locos section at South African Railways Modelling Pages - SA Rail in the UK (Well, it's been all over the world now....!) Partially built DJH SAR GMAM and GCA Garratts

I model Rhodesia Railways and South African Railways in HOn3-1/2 and UP in N

Not mine..... Mine are built to run on 12mm gauge (HOm or HOn3-1/2).

They are not shock asorbers, they are traction links - they reduce the amount of force transmitted through the bolster. The 5Es rough ride was due to the bogie design, which changed in later variants. At the time of building, the 9E was the most powerful electric locomotive built for the...

Hi Jorge I used the NWSL 40" wheelsets, on the power truck side I used the existing Lima gears to hold the axle halves, on the front trcuk I used plastic tubing. I've got one of the Frateschi locos, but I'm not too impressed with it - for a start, it's more like 1/76th scale, instead of...

Hi Jon That steeple cab is one of Lima's cludges - there have never been locos like it in South Africa (Although there was an ES loco, which was a steeple cab, but nothing like the Lima one). Lima were notorious for doing this, there was a lot of European or American stuff they tried to paint...

Hi Jimmy I'm an ex ZA'n, hence the interest. Isn't that GMAM one of David Hall-Green's paintings?

Hi all. New to the forum, so I'll introduce myself. I live in kiwiland, but I model South African Railways in HOn3-1/2(3' 6" gauge prototype running on 12mm gauge track). Saven't yet got round to building a layout, but got quite a bit of rolling stock together, and quite a few locos...