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Fixed the issues with the windows. Looks much better. Time for mold making!
Late to the show, as usual, but after the Monroe show, I got inspired, and started work on this:Taking guesses, although, I think you guys will get it pretty easily. and eventually I will start a build thread over in the projects board.
Does it have something to do with logging railroads? And a name starting with "S" and ending with a "y"?
I think it looks more like a B-B-B diesel.
Nope, you're all wrong. That's a Class C Climax.
You've got two things going on there that are way cool and perhaps groundbreaking.....1) Looks like the Bachmann 44-tonner motor with DUAL SHAFTS going in there so you've got both trucks powered. Pretty much the same deal as I did with powering the jackshaft of a worm just in front of the motor. I've got one of those Bachmann motors (no longer available on their website) and it's the exact same as the Kato, just dual shafts.
2) Extending the driveshaft THROUGH the center truck with a longer or spliced shaft. Nice. Well done.
You might want to look at making that rear shaft to the trailing water tank a slip joint affair, kind of like a Shay universal shaft. Getting enough 'slop' in the Kato shafts and trucks is a challenge so they don't bind on curves, as the universal is not at the centerline of the truck and it swings over and lengthens on curves.
If you need resin Climax truck sideframes just contact me through the randgust.com web page information.
I still think there are less than five people that have copied my drive system for the Climax, but you might be the first to get all three trucks powered this way. That's been my headache with the Heisler concept as well, trying to get both trucks properly powered, inside-frame trucks, outside rods, and a dummy rotating crankshaft. I 'thought' I was going to use Atlas Shay parts, until I was informed that the next run will have 'significant mechanism changes' and the parts won't be interchangeable with the first run. So So much for a kit concept if you're designing off first-run parts. I'm waiting like everybody else to see what they have done.
I see your Climax in the background, too. Mine is now...hmmm..... like six years old and its still working just fine. But I have taken my Kato-motored Class A locomotives and replaced them all with gizmoszone gearheads to get the speed down; the Climax B is the only one left with a Faulhaber in it now.
You could play ice hockey on the streets of Decatur AL right now--if you could find any skates. I joke--Huntsville has a minor league team, so there must be a rink over there.