Joerg,
I too have the Hallmark Silver Charger and 3 car train set. I think I paid $250
for it in the 80's sometime. Each car was equipped with a Spud and the stock
truck by the previous owner. This was due to the horrible rolling qualities of
blunt end axles in poorly cast bearings and the inability of the motor to pull
the 3 (sleds)cars by itself. I put the cars in the box and figured someday an
accurate prewar truck would be manufactured. The Charger was prepped for the
layout in my usual fashion. I had the opportunity to build several Hobbytown of
Boston Alcos and drive units and learned how to tweak those similarly designed
gearboxes. I cleaned the gearbox castings,shimmed the bearings and applied
Labelle Teflon grease. I also added home made firemans side wheel wipers to
improve electrical pick-up and a little more weight. Charger now has a Digitrax
decoder and can pull a respectable train of Walthers Kitchen cars and a SSS car
or an ex 400 coach. I would also mention that the visible gears in the power
truck will be covered with a bulkhead and some detail added to the rear
bulkhead, it's very clean back there. The gears are a little noisy but I don't
hear them at the train shows.
At the Lyons Township All Aboard model railroad show I saw the kitbashed
Charger. I think it's the one in the gallery, I couldn't access it tonight but
it's beautiful in person. Honestly it's more of a scratchbuild with all the
work he put into it. Being that it is of Kato's business cars fluted sides it
has better depth than the etched brass model and his rendition of Stainless
steel is superb. This is a real Naperville quality model.
Rob Manley
----- Original Message -----
From: Kenneth Martin
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] General Pershing motorcar
By motorcar I presume you mean the Engine S. Charger.
Hallmark imported the engine S. Charger back in the early '80's.
Not the best runner, replaced the power truck and it runs better.
Hallmark also imported the three cars that made the General Pershing Zephyr.
Ken Martin
Joerg wrote:
>I want to model the General Pershing motorcar in scale HO. Did anyone
>tried this befor and can give me some help ?
>
>Joerg
>
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