Monday, January 25, 2016

Rough XL Driver in 3D


Making some progress. Might have this in a 3D printer by the end of the week.

XL WIP


Getting the principle dimensions of the XL Driver down. Once I can go from design to 3D printer with a known good model. I can scale up the radius for an XXL.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

713 handles switches


There's 12 studs between the flanged drivers, so the question came up about how it handled switches. It works pulling from both ends and pushing from the tender. Pushing from the pilot truck seems to give it just the right amount of force to cause the front mains to catch the guard rail and derail as one would expect.

Monday, January 18, 2016

GT 713 WIP


With GT 3406 in the background. I think the tilted wafer logo looks sharp on the tender.