Harrild Railroads - Part 126 - Sneak Peak inside new Nohab MY loco
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- This model diesel-electric loco - in Denmark called MY - is very popular in the countries they ran (and some of them still run). They are build on licence from the USA-base General Motors (GM), and engine inside is a GM-type 16 V-cylinders , 2-stroke motors. They have that special sound, when they go up in (X) stepvice, that a lot of us love to hear. You may notice, that i look a lot lige the american F7a's - but just a bit cuter...
The first prototypes was bought from DSN (The Danish States Railroads) i 1954, a some of them are still in commercial use today, 70 years later. The prototype loco for this Strabag is the former DSB MY 1125.
This model from german-based Piko, is in scale 1:25 or 1:26 normal track. It is therefore a quite large G-scale model. It is in fact much larger than my F7a-unit fra USA-trains in 1:29.
In this first film on the new loco, I take a look inside to investigate how to place batteries and electronics, when converting to RC-control. You may know that Harrild Railroads run dead tracks. So it's batteries or live steam that runs out on the layout in the garden.
I always put a soft towel down when i work on something. Looks great!!
Very interesting. Thanks. Joe😊
She is a Beautiful engine!
Looks good :)
The Engine driver is Piko's CEO Rene Wilfer!
Yes, with were staring eyes…🚂😄
Since it is 6-axle trucks it is more similar to a U.S.A. E9 but with control cabs on both ends. Will you strip out the Piko electronics or keep them intact and incorporate the R/C decoder?
These MY was produced from 1954 - don’t know what model exactly was the american prototype for these swedish build locos, but the motor was a 16 cyl. 2-stroke GM’s.
They’ve got six axels because of the max. axel weight in Denmark.
Yes, I’ll strip the Piko-stuff and put in Revo-RC receiver+sound. That’s how I made my F7a.
My friend is now talking about dismantling the track, and sell it all.
We will see.
BTW i have worked on MY during my apprenticeship at DSB in the early / mid 80ties, so yeah i know my way around those.
I actually made a couple of speaker stands out of Pistons from a GM diesel, not sure if it was from the V16 though, threw them away after a while as they was too small for some of my speakers, and quite heavy for speaker " feet "
It was cool how these pistons would " swim " on the rods so the piston could more around, i think it was for wear leveling CUZ i think these engines was also submarine engines before uncle Sam got all nuclear.
I also have a table beer opener, made out of a exhaust valve for a train engine, or that is i think i still have, i have not been into beer drinking since the late 80ties, but it was made much like stelton beer openers
You got some interesting artifacts from your career, didn't get to keep them all but that's life.