Santa Fe 1800 Class

[Schraddel]

Hello,

ngauger, Wayne and David. It was a lot of hard work to get this loco in this condition as posted on the last photo.


At first the task was to get rid of the remains of the detoriated foam. And to my luck acetone worked here. Very small rags of old cloth were soaked with acetone and the sticky remains of the foam attacked by rubbing them off. For hard to reach areas little rags were clipped on the tips of a tweezer. 





The corrosion spots were treated with rail cleaning rubber. But some dents were too deep to erase them. So filler primer has to do this work lateron.





Several details were straigthened and partly resoldered. The moveable bell was soldered solid onto their chair due to experiences of the past.





The bent pilot was straightened.







A comparison between the 1480 Class Atlantic and the 1800 Clas Prairie. There is an earlier thread about the Atlantic in this forum.





The first attempt to remotoring it quick and easy. The gears were just the same and because it worked flawless in the Atlantic why not give a try here?
Note the position of the lifting arms and expasion links to each other here. That would later cause concern in aspect of not running smooth.