The Mogollon Railroad

[nachoman]

For the first time in about two years, I got to run some trains! I was just testing my trackwork out, but I ran a standard gauge train with about 6 cars continuously for about an hour, then the other direction for an hour, and then actually backed the train around the loop a few times and had zero derailments. One of the cars was bumping a little going through a switch, but I traced that to a wheelset slightly out of gauge. Then I made up a narrow gauge train, seven cars plus a caboose. Again, it made several laps and zero derailments.

2-8-0 #4 is another story. I had her down for awhile while I converted her to an oil burner, and at the time noticed the crank pins were really worn. I had to drill out the counterweights and custom make new crank pins out of brass tubing and some 00-90 screws.