So, I love this loco. I have one in HO, but its the cheapy Bachmann model with the motor in the tender that drives the boiler with a drive shaft. It does have a light but it gets its power from the front truck and it flickers... must be a bad connection up there somewhere. Its noisy and its DC only.
But its quite cool looking even though the detail is lacking a little and the wood in the tender is far from realistic.
So I'm thinking about dressing it up a bit - Put some realistic wood and such. This would be my first time working on a locomotive.
I'd like to put a decoder in it but there looks to be almost no room in this small loco.
Even after all that it will still be a noisy shaft drive...
I'm wondering if it is worth the hassle trying to turn this cheapy loco in to something nice. Whatcha think?
The Bachmann Jupiter:
The "prototype" (at least, the rebuilt replica from the Golden Spike park):
But its quite cool looking even though the detail is lacking a little and the wood in the tender is far from realistic.
So I'm thinking about dressing it up a bit - Put some realistic wood and such. This would be my first time working on a locomotive.
I'd like to put a decoder in it but there looks to be almost no room in this small loco.
Even after all that it will still be a noisy shaft drive...
I'm wondering if it is worth the hassle trying to turn this cheapy loco in to something nice. Whatcha think?
The Bachmann Jupiter:
The "prototype" (at least, the rebuilt replica from the Golden Spike park):
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