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Construction of Stack Gill Viaduct - Part 2 Updated
Comprising 32 arches and two girder bridges, this is part two of a photographic record detailing the construction of Stack Gill Viaduct on the Worsley Dale Garden Railway. More than a year after the completion of phase one, this part of the construction took place over the months of September and October 2015
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Construction of Stack Gill Viaduct - Part 1 Updated
Comprising 32 arches and two girder bridges, this is the first part of a photographic record detailing the construction of Stack Gill Viaduct on the Worsley Dale Garden Railway during May and June 2014
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Hi Mate, Many thanks for the advise. I'll do some investigating when I have some time. Cheers, Marcus
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By traingeekboy · Posted
Athearn are a reliable brand. It sounds like your points may be too small a radius.
I would try to open it up and see if you can re-gauge the wheels you speak of.
Ideally an NMRA gauge is your best friend, but I've found turning the loco upside down and sliding a piece of set track, or identical kind of point over the wheels will show you what is going on.
No fun having a new loco fail on the layout.
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Hi Mate, thanks for the feedback. This is an SD751. I'll take a good look at the bogies/wheel axles when I have some time. It seems like one of the middle wheel axles doesn't have any lateral movement. It could be a lemon loco, or just a design fault. Having been used to European locos (Trix, Brawa, Roco etc.) and Bachmann Branchline UK stock which are mostly great runners, I was expecting something better out of the box. Maybe 3 axle bogies aren't really suited to tighter radius curves.
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