I can confirm Bob's experience. We were talking about it at the last show. The lead engine of the two-engine consist was wobbling like duck. The second engine far less so (which I believe was the same model), and the cars behind the engines were running nice and smooth. It was definitely something specific to that engine. - Peter.
On 12/13/2010 3:57 pm, Bob Werre wrote: > Ben, I believe our track is super smooth as laid by Jack Troxell for our > modules so that isn't the issue. I'm having the 'unstable' thing your > referring to. I guess I could try some stiffer springs to see if that > would help. > > Bob Werre >> Bob, >> I haven't noticed rocking. Then again my trackwork is rather smooth >> (hand built) with floors in all the turnouts and crossings. And they >> don't wiggle down the track the way the spring universal drive shafts >> do. On the otherhand I noticed a crack in one of the universal joints >> the other day on an SD60. >> >> One of our club members has a u-boat that seemed really unstable. It >> made me scared to purchase a 2 axle 'spring drive' loco. >> Ben Trousdale -- Peter Vanvliet ([email protected], or [email protected]) Houston, Texas "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>) http://fourthray.com/ (my company) http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club) -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
