valve gear linkage operates and provides the characteristic movement in addition to the main rod movement. The lead and trailing trucks are both outside frame as well but use different techniques to accomplish this. The lead truck journals are supported by plates snotted out to provide clearance for the cylinders on curves. The trailing truck uses 1x6 inverted slopes snotted around the wheels. The boiler design began with Cale Leiphart’s Pennsylvania E6 which used 2-stud wide plates snotted in radial fashion and makes it easy to attach piping. But turning this into a single stud radial boiler was a challenge. The trick is to support the plates on an inner core made of bevel gears with octagonal mod plates on the ends. The rows of plates on the 45deg angles have 1x1 clips to attach to
the octo-bars. The other rows of plates between these interlock and are actually held in place with the rubber “boiler bands.”
wheels with actual metal 9v wheels that match the train motor wheels. First open a 9v train motor and collect the wheels from it (typically from a burnt The tender contains a 9v train out motor). Pull the wheels from motor which provides addition- the axles and then re-attach the al traction and provides power wheels to an RC train wheelset to the RC motor in the lok. To axel, which have blunt ends, and achieve the correct proportions attach to the faux truck using 1x2 the tender motor is placed in the mod plates with door rail. center with “faux trucks” swiveling around the ends. I first used this approach on the tender for my Frisco 1630 seven years ago but have now improved on it by replacing the black plastic train
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