Eighton Bahn AKA testing testing RhB
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Nodrog1826
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Various bits of activity over the last few weeks, but todays train/railway sponsorship, provided by that Al Fresco chap was...
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...various bit of freight and passenger run, well it all adds to the revenue...
![20250629_143315[1].jpg](https://cdn.gscalecentral.net/2025/06/thumb/543936_20250629_1433151.jpg "20250629_143315[1].jpg")
...and the final train of the day was a charter, for a group of web designers
...
![20250629_195823[1].jpg](https://cdn.gscalecentral.net/2025/06/thumb/543940_20250629_1958231.jpg "20250629_195823[1].jpg")
...get it...
![20250629_142301[1].jpg](https://cdn.gscalecentral.net/2025/06/543934_20250629_1423011.jpg "20250629_142301[1].jpg")
...various bit of freight and passenger run, well it all adds to the revenue...
![20250629_143315[1].jpg](https://cdn.gscalecentral.net/2025/06/543936_20250629_1433151.jpg "20250629_143315[1].jpg")
...and the final train of the day was a charter, for a group of web designers
...![20250629_195823[1].jpg](https://cdn.gscalecentral.net/2025/06/543940_20250629_1958231.jpg "20250629_195823[1].jpg")
...get it...
Nodrog1826
Professional Idiot
Age is something to comes to all things, and my origional loco a 2040 Crok is no exception.
Something is not right with this loco, even with extra power pick ups added, it's the first loco to let me know if the track is not clean enough.
So it's gone into that mode again, and even with the track rubber deployed (my knees are killing me) it's still not happy. So an investigation of sorts has been undertaken.
Resulting in the sight of a strange beast running around...
![20250630_203521[1].jpg](https://cdn.gscalecentral.net/2025/07/thumb/544004_20250630_2035211.jpg "20250630_203521[1].jpg")
...now there is a school of thought that you need to remove the body first to then remove the bonnets, but that's not the way I do it.
Not sure more weight is needed in the nose ends, (the newer crock is a lot nose ends heavier) or it's a case of older wiring, but everything checked out.
I could be takling myself into a total re-wire as a winter project.
Something is not right with this loco, even with extra power pick ups added, it's the first loco to let me know if the track is not clean enough.
So it's gone into that mode again, and even with the track rubber deployed (my knees are killing me) it's still not happy. So an investigation of sorts has been undertaken.
Resulting in the sight of a strange beast running around...
![20250630_203521[1].jpg](https://cdn.gscalecentral.net/2025/07/544004_20250630_2035211.jpg "20250630_203521[1].jpg")
...now there is a school of thought that you need to remove the body first to then remove the bonnets, but that's not the way I do it.
Not sure more weight is needed in the nose ends, (the newer crock is a lot nose ends heavier) or it's a case of older wiring, but everything checked out.
I could be takling myself into a total re-wire as a winter project.
Nodrog1826
Professional Idiot
Yep
PhilP
, all checked and re checked, cleaned, continuity tested etc., current draw is fine as well, all leccy connections checked as well. It's behaving as if it needs more nose ends weight, as older Crocs just have the in body weights as standard, the extras I have added to the nose ends are those sticky car wheel balance ones.
Stick it on the rolling road, romps away, but out on the track, runs then the lights start to flicker, stutters to a halt. But it's also blowing bulbs like they are going out of fashion, four up to now at the last count.
PhilP
, all checked and re checked, cleaned, continuity tested etc., current draw is fine as well, all leccy connections checked as well. It's behaving as if it needs more nose ends weight, as older Crocs just have the in body weights as standard, the extras I have added to the nose ends are those sticky car wheel balance ones.Stick it on the rolling road, romps away, but out on the track, runs then the lights start to flicker, stutters to a halt. But it's also blowing bulbs like they are going out of fashion, four up to now at the last count.
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