My expierience with big locos

[Schraddel]

Completing the electrification furthermore:


The 7-pole socket is the connector between loco and tender, so they can be easily separated. From this point onward the wires are insider the tender shell, so i used the NMRA colour code for wiring. A 8-pole socket according NMRA rules was made and so it is possible to plug simply in the decoder of your choice.
The 2-pole socket is intended for a back up light.





A first test running on the workbench. First in anlalogue mode, then a decoder was plugged in and in DCC mode.
The only additional device at this stage is the front light.





When comparing this modell with prototype photos, a lot of details were missing. The black markings on the boiler show things to come.






What i have done were four footboards beneath the crossheads out of L-shaped and rectanguler profiles.
And then going mad, my attempts to make moveable lube pump drives















My first attempt for the lube pump drives were out of 0.3mm bronze wire. But this is rather hard and here my possiblities to form a lug out of it were limited. The lugs were bend with an very pointed tweezers and this was the smallest diameter which i resulted. There are 4 lube pumps, one further is not mounted yet.
And here the question is, will this drives stay attached when the loco is running under layout conditions :?:


Cheers Lutz