This will blow your mind!

railflyermodel · Nov 27, 2011

Guys,

One traction motor, 8 cars, no problem!

http://youtu.be/dEk9euhYU3E

Please keep up the support!

Christopher Howard
Railflyer Model Prototypes Inc.
www.railflyermodel.com

thaddeusthudpucker · Nov 27, 2011

I personally would like to see a unit with all four traction motors in it, loaded up and pulling on a strain gauge.

I want to buy your trucks, but not seeing a *finished* unit has stopped me.

MGWSY · Nov 27, 2011

Same here and will the setup play nice with Atlas, Athearn, Bowser, Etc units? Looks promising though. How much weight did you have on the chassis when tested? Will a fully built unit be able to have as much weight or more while still fitting everything else, I assume with the motors on the trucks the body can be filled with a lot of weight?

thaddeusthudpucker · Nov 27, 2011

I think that the possibilities are sort of endless once you have moved all of that bulky motor and flywheels and gear tower nonsense out of the carbody... I can imagine something like an SD60F with a giant speaker hooked up to a Tsunami decoder sitting on top of a big ol lump of steel...

Just need to see and hear one of these on a road test that is longer than 10 seconds... Let's see one of these (better: A consist!) pulling a 30 car train on a large layout with grades and stuff... I'd like to see some videos longer than 25 seconds.

railflyermodel · Nov 28, 2011

Guys,

To clean up areas of the trucks that Brian Bennett aptly named "ass" will cost an extra $7,500 of tooling but the results are worth it.

We have new prototypes inbound for the side-frames. The modifications push the springs up into the area above the journals and add the bottom of the spring detail to the journal.

We're also taking the struts that were "beefed" up and making them loose some weight.

To do the journals, we're sending the new parts to another supplier who has been working on the side-frames. We have to eat some tooling fees but the results will be a lot better.

So all of the sales help now are going to get this done ASAP. We're making the best looking and best running trucks...

All the best,

Christopher Howard
Railflyer Model Prototypes Inc.
www.railflyermodel.com

New Journals - Liner detail on the roller bearing is removed. More spring detail added. Springs will still be used to create a working truck but they will be hidden behind the the detail and the side-frame is modified to enable the assembly to be moved up.