This loco is about 30+ years old! It is tender driven. Pickup is from the loco wheels as well as the tender wheels. I had to remove the two center wheels from the tender so that I could modify the pickup from the tender wheels. It has a three pole pancake motor. What I noticed is that it tends to slow down on irregular areas of the track unlike the diesels which are long and therefore they have better pickups.
Enjoy!
Ananda
Nice work getting a 30+ year old tender drive running. It was a great idea to use both the loco and tender pickups for better reliability. From the video, it looks more like the slowdown is happening on curves. Possibly traction, tight radius, wheel gauge, or some mechanical friction coming into play.
Great to see these older locos brought back to life.
If you get a chance, please share some installation details, tips/tricks and pictures that would be helpful for others as well.
