At Shenfield, the chassis on the 2F locomotive finally gave up the ghost. A badly assembled, solid 0-6-0 chassis is never going to work properly on the finescale 14.2mm track. The model had been limited to operating our passenger train as arriving at the station and running around the coaches was about as much as it could manage without falling off too often. Even this is now too much for it so I need to pull my finger out and re-build it as a flexi-chassis.
Looking at the current state of play I'm amazed the loco worked as well as it did. One of the axle bearing is loose, a crude compensation pivot props up the axle. The pickups stick out at odd angles although these do seem to be working even if they aren't pretty. Hopefully, soon it will all look like a proper neat engineering job and work a whole lot better.
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