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Well if finally found time to resize the rest of the pictures. Once I post what I have I will have posted just about all the work that was done over the last few months. Here we have the motor and gearbox kit I will be using to replace the open frame motor and the worn out original gearbox...

Galen Thanks for the link. I have actually visited his site a number of times. There is a great article on his site that goes into detail on how to assemble the NWSL gearbox kits. I followed the article as I did mine and it came out great. The article can be found here...

I managed to get some more done today. The boiler/cab assembly, smokebox front, pilot, tender shell and a couple of other small parts got sandblasted with baking soda. I did this to remove any tarnish from handling and the last traces of stubborn paint that remained. It also left a nice dull...

To be honest this is my first brass steam locomotive restoration. I have worked on plenty of plastic locomotives doing detailing and painting. Before I even started I researched what tools would be needed and read as many articles I could about brass steam locomotives. Once I had made a list of...

Yep the ruler does say The Torrington Company. For some reason it is hard to find steel rulers in this small town. One day I was in the office supply store and they had five of the metal rulers on the shelf. I bought three of them. Wayne R

Wayne I had wondered the same thing. With the price of brass most of all models of Canadian steam it was strange how he had modified it without a care in the world to how it looked and not even try to keep it looking like the full size version. All that was needed to have a CNR coal tender was...

Thanks. When I received them I was not even sure I was going to be able to get them running again. Once the paint was removed things looked more hopeful. I will be posting more over the next few days as most of the work was done over the last couple of months. Right now the boiler/cab...

The frame was then removed from its lacquer thinner bath and rinsed off. Once agin I found some parts had been glued. wall1 A couple of the leaf springs were at the bottom of the jar and the brass plate between the front of the frame sides that the pilot mounts to was unsoldered on one side...

I am not going to go into fine detail on all that was done to restore the locomotive and tender but I will touch on a lot of what was needed to be done to get it back into service. Everything from a new can motor, new gear box, frame repairs, driver replacement, drive setup, painting + decals...

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I hope this is the right place for this topic. Seeing as it is not a kitbashing or scratchbuilding project I decided to post here. Ever since I got into model railroading ( 30 years ago ) I have always been intersted in CNR steam. My dream was to eventually own a couple of HO scale brass CNR...

I started off with DC but a friend of mine who was a hobby shop owner showed me a Digitrax DCC system and let me try it out on his layout. I was hooked right away so I bought a new Digitrax Empire builder system on the spot. That was way back when the Digitrax Empire builder system had just...

I have lost count of the number of times I made purchases from the US via ebay. All you may have to pay is any Canadian taxes ( Ontario would be the PST and GST ). Canada Post will also charge you a $5.00 customs fee. I have never paid any other fees. The good news is about half or maybe a...

I was not sure what area to post this topic. Today I decided to finally tackle the problem of adding more electrical pickups to the tender trucks on my brass CNR N-5-d tenders.Seeing as I use DCC ( Digitrax ) to run my trains and I plan to add sound to the N-5-ds extra electrical pickups are...

Rob I know you can order back issues from MR but I am not sure how far back. You could also check ebay for the issue. My issue is part of a hard bound copy of the first 6 issues of 1980. I may be able to scan it but I am not sure how it will turn out seeing as it is a big book and it...

Rob I have been so busy working on my brass CNR 2-8-0s I finally took time to read your post and remembered something that may help your conversion. There was an article in the March 1980 Model Railroader starting on page 70. It is about kitbashing a CNR 4-6-2. They used a Bowser NYC K-11...

I was not sure the where the best place for this question/topic was so I figured as it is a technical question of a sorts I would post here. Well after three days or so I am still having a tough time deciding on what shade of black or possibly a shade of black with a touch of gray in it to use...

Eric I am glad to be of help. It is funny you mention your wife is from Dobie. In the last year I have met a number of modelers online who in one way or another have ties back to the K.L area. I gess the saying it is a small world is true.I myself have actually only lived here for about 14...

I recently purchased a couple of brass HO scale Van Hobbies CNR 2-8-0's that need paint stripping and repair work. To remove the paint from them I disassembled them. The boiler was removed from the frame, boiler front was removed ( mine were not soldered on ) then the side rods & valve gear were...

I have used a few as power supplies for RC battery chargers with great results. To get the power supply to turn on without the computer if it is an ATX version you will need to find the green wire on the large plug that plugged into the computers motherboard. Once you find the green wire make...