Rolling Stock For The Southwest

[Schraddel]

One of my headaches were the tender trucks of this Santa Fe 2-8-2.


Here in comparison with an older Rivarossi Commonwealth tender truck.
You see the outer truck frame out of brass casting, the another brass casting with the brake shoes and at least the wheels.
So the trucks are very broad and the brake shoes does not match the wheel threads.


A closer look of the rear truck, marked "H" like hinten = rear.
Because you have to remove the trucks before to get acess to the tender shell mounting screws, i made a plug connection for the pick ups. So the acess to the inner is easy possible without soldering required.

Until now my excursion to the West was a kind of late X-mas present. But then i found another Santa Fe model:




This was simply a case of "could'nt resist"






This was one of the rare chances of "buy it or forget it", for the price of an Athearn Genesis diesel.
My purse is made out of onion leather...
... every time i look into it, i must cry :cry:


Looks innocent, ya?
But it least there was a lot of work done to get her running and looking square.

Lutz