Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

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Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

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Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

Postby chuck » Sun Jul 11, 2021 11:20 am

Nice. What mod's did you make? MTH loco's usually pull pretty well. Nice drive train, nice shells, it was the electronics that gave me fits!
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Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

Postby philo426 » Sun Jul 11, 2021 11:46 am

Added a coupler assembly. Image

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Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

Postby rogruth » Mon Jul 12, 2021 12:52 pm

It may not be important but the real ones usually pulled one car and had trouble with two.
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Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

Postby philo426 » Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:57 pm

True but the MTH Goose is much more powerfull

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Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

Postby J. S. Bach » Mon Jul 12, 2021 4:06 pm

I had thought about one but the cost to two-rail it stopped me.

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Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Jul 12, 2021 4:17 pm

J. S. Bach wrote:I had thought about one but the cost to two-rail it stopped me.


Curious as to how much trouble that might really be to do?
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Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

Postby J. S. Bach » Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:30 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
J. S. Bach wrote:I had thought about one but the cost to two-rail it stopped me.

Curious as to how much trouble that might really be to do?

First, I would have to buy a lathe!

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Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:15 am

J. S. Bach wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
J. S. Bach wrote:I had thought about one but the cost to two-rail it stopped me.

Curious as to how much trouble that might really be to do?

First, I would have to buy a lathe!


I would have thought it might be easier than that and that suitable replacement wheelsets might be available from NWSL.
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Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls

Postby J. S. Bach » Tue Jul 13, 2021 5:24 pm

I was thinking primarily about the power truck modifications. And at the time (I was mainly trolley and still am, I guess) I did not know much about NWSL except that they existed. I have since bought a set of wheels from them to convert a Lionel modern hopper with rotating roller-bearing caps to two-rail. I wish that all "aftermarket" products did their intended job as well and as easily as those wheelsets from NWSL! Everything fit perfectly.


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