Adding some variety to the Dublo Railway. The Class 13 is making progress.

Viewers of the channel will be aware that I was sold a "3-rail" 08 some years ago. It turned out to have started life as a 2-rail model. It was not very happy moving through points and would hesitate in other areas of the layout.. The solution may be to convert it to a Class 13 to increase connectivity. I now have an old Tri-ang chassis and some bodies to experiment with. I'm interested in creating an impression of a 13. Clearly a Tria-ang chassis is not perfect but if this is successful the idea will be refined and maybe another '13' created. In the end this was only brought about to solve a connectivity problem in a novel way. I hope this proves interesting.

[@l1a146]

Interesting idea.
And definately something differant for the layout. Looking forward to seeing progress on that.
I do have a couple of 2 rail dublo locos that have been converted to 3 rail with spare pickup shoes.
A cheap and cheerful way to make the insulated wheels into uninsulated is to clean the ends of the axles and wheel hubs and use some of that paint on repair for rear windscreen demisters to pass the current.
Once dry a little black paint over the top and youd never know it was there.
It also has the advantage of being easily removed should you wish to revert it back to two rail operation.

[@thedublorailway3803]

Thank you. This did occur to me and I did cast around for conductive paint but never thought of demister repair paint. I must also confess that once I hit on the Class 13 idea everything else was forgotten, however this will be the way in the future.