Santa Fe GP9u 2244 switches the piggyback facility on Stephen M. Priest’s St. Louis Division layout. This layout and many other fine examples of modeling will be on tour during the convention.
Many thousands of HO brass steam locomotives from Japanese and early Korean builders were imported from the 1960s through the 1980s. They represent hundreds of prototypes, tend to have nice detail, and can still be found online or at larger train shops at reasonable prices. The problem is that they often have substandard mechanisms, including poorly tuned running gear, crude gearboxes, and/or open-frame motors. This clinic will explain how anyone with average modeling skills, a few specialized tools, and an organized approach can get such models off shelves and onto layouts, where they belong. Topics to be covered include deciding if a model is worth working on, remotoring, regearing, and adjusting the running gear.
