Pieces are starting to come together. The locomotive is starting to take shape. The next piece to fit to the chassis mount for the batteries. The trick here is we had four twelve volt, 90 amp hour batteries. We had some spare steel so we decided to make a platform to attach to the chassis. This worked perfectly.
As we were assembling other pieces, more fabricated bits were coming in from the workshop. Among those bits were the steel plates for motor mount/axle mounts. Here, the motor connects to a gear which is attached to the axle that runs through the plates which is attached with bearings. Also you see the hollow steel frame where the suspension will connect it to the chassis.
The assembly was difficult. The pieces needed to be less than a millimeter off which made fitting almost impossible without a mallet. After some manipulating, the pieces fit like gloves. The spacing was perfect and the the wheels glided across the rails like butter.
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