Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2021 4:03 pm
It does! https://youtu.be/TPIgLy3zIB8
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Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls
Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:20 pm
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!
Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls
Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:46 pm
Added a coupler assembly. 
Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 1:52 pm
It may not be important but the real ones usually pulled one car and had trouble with two.
Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 2:57 pm
True but the MTH Goose is much more powerfull
Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 5:06 pm
I had thought about one but the cost to two-rail it stopped me.
Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 5:17 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?
Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2021 10:30 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!
Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:15 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.
Re: Modified a MTH Galloping Ghost to see how well it pulls
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2021 6:24 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.