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Jim, yes, I'd like to try some---I will not be going to York, but I'm more than willing to cover all cost to send me out at couple.

@@stevendouglas6594 Sorry you are not coming to York, was great to meet you there.

Mounting anything in this stuff can be and is a hair puller---that's what I like about the 10 style std truck--IF--you can get a motor in it, the rest is easy.

LOL---I don't either, but I'm stuck with summer in Central Illinois---this morning it's 68 deg--nice.

0 gauge ---0 gauge and std gauge rail are the same thing---027 is shorter and smaller.

@@stevendouglas6594 I stand corrected! I didn't learn anything today! 😐

@@jamesdenny4734 Close enough for government work and your heart was in the right place. Life is good. 😁😁

I've got a box full of bronze bushings, and I've added them to some of those cheap Alco motors I convert to standard, the holes are egg shape and I thought about putting them on this but said ---what the hell---everything is tight, smooth and straight. Never thought about a Marx motor--the trouble with Marx is the lack of off the shelf parts ---I can get a boat load of Lionel Pre and Post War gears and play mix and match until you get it right.

I made it.

Thank you for the offer---I've finally got the gears I needed ---looking at a 16 to 1 ----that will have a decent speed ---the real challenge is getting the grass to mesh , and be smooth.

@@johnknippenberg-LandmarkYards I'm not sure. They used this motor in steam and electric. It's the motor that I prefer to use for standard gauge if it's really going to pull string of cars

Yes---I use standoffs for all sorts of things. If I knew I could get all the dimensions right after I made one that would run and run well--I'd give SCS a try---LOL---I don't measure anything---I start with a center line , set the wheel where I think it should go, then I aline the gears and glue them to the surface, drill and tap the holes and pop the gears off and clean off the glue--put it back together and see how smooth it will run.

Well---I keep messing with it--I hope to get it running.

Yes--because if Japan had taken the islands the US Government would have deemed all Hawaiian money worthless ---just paper. This bill is also a short snorter --something all service men did--they would sign their name, date and maybe where they were--I've seen many bills like this---the one I have is signed USS Iowa July 21st 1945. The Iowa was off the coast of the Japanese home land shelling the ever living hell out of them at that time. On the 29th of Aug 1945 the Iowa and USS Missouri sail into Tokyo Bay ---the War is over--on Sept 2, 1945 the surrender was signed on the deck of the Missouri ----I've got a bill that's--Been there---done that.

LOL----Your father was a machinist---I'm not ---I just jump in and give it a try. Sometimes I win, sometimes I loose, but it's still fun.

Your welcome--My wife was a school teach and she did show me how the keep the Arselings under control.--LOL---I'm ""about" done with the tank car--it has not been as simple or straight forward as I had thought.🤔

As Uhtred, son of Uhtred said---Density is all.

You know--I made this---loosely-- based on a real truck that the RG&S had---I went out and looked at it again--it does look some what like the BH's truck

Never heard of them but I will be looking them up. It is my lack of understanding in the gear world that has thrown a monkey wrench into some of the things I'd like to try.

Yeah---I've got a thing for things you can lose an arm or a leg in---But after all I was a farm kid--a farm kid still with ten fingers and toes.

The reason for the chain is the time frame I'm trying to recreate ---erector set gears and chains, lots of oil and lots of noise. Everything I make , I make in the Pre War fashion. I ""try"" to put myself in the mind of 13 year old kid, during the depression, War clouds over Europe and dad making just enough money for the family to get by. Maybe yeah have a cheap little train set and of course you love it to death and with out the extra money you make stuff to add to it---my elevated is made from scrap lumber that we found. I try to really live the time but I'm damn glad I didn't have to---Try ServoCity---they sell all kinds of nylon gears and chain--something I may try someday in a drive unit. Gears, chain and pitch mess me up ---I need somebody to explain it all to me over a couple of beers.

@@stevendouglas6594 I’m hip to all your reasons and try to do the same . As for the belts and chains , again I too do not know a lot about them so what did I do ? I bought a belt and serpentine gears to experiment with some day . When that happens I will post photos . I truly enjoy your videos and your talent, they inspire me to do more kitbashing and to think outside of the box . Keep up the great work !

@@johnniewalker9348 Like you, I really know nothing about belts and gears but that's what Dave Waterman uses in a lot of the things he builds. Go for it, you'll never learn if ya don't try---and let me know what you've learned when you do. The MTH trolley motors ---I know nothing of the workings of an electric motor --the two I have are just about new but where that loop hooks to the axle , it lets the motor sit so low it grounds out---on both of them, and I don't know why. I put a piece of heavy gauge wire in the loop to hold it up and it runs fine--but that ain't right--I'm missing something ---but I don't now what.

LOL---Yes, if I can get it to work.

Yeah, what's going on right now has got me distracted from Empire Building. I bought a drive for a Post War 51, it's a 2-4-2 diesel switcher . I think this might be a very good conversion from 0 to standard. I intend to take off the lead and trailing truck and cut the frame back to the base of the motor. We'll see how well this works. For 25 bucks, I'm not out anything but my time.