Its been a while since I got a fresh update on this blog and some progress has been made on both the 62 and the 18.
Dad's been busy picking away at projects big and small. One large project that had to be addressed was the rear wheel wobble on the crank side. Thanks to Dad's friend Jim and some serious machining skill and knowledge, the crank side wheel is now without a wobble. Dad installed the brake switches on both cars and adjusted and tested the switches.In the process, he found that there was no brake lever return spring on the 18 - there is now!
We also were told that we needed to have a horn permanently mounted on each car for regulatory requirements on one railroad that we intend to operate. So much for my plan to use sports horns!
Here is the 9" air horn style electric horn that is now mounted on the operators side of the 62.
With the exception of wiring in the horn and attaching the button to the control panel, the only remaining task to put the 62 on the rail is to have the glass installed in the windscreen.
On the 18 front - Dad's custom bracket shop has been opened again and as you can see the the tail light is mounted on the front of 18. The headlight is also mounted, just not shown.
Meanwhile on the back, as you can see the lights are mounted.
All four lights on the 18 were wired, tested and verified to work. The brake light circuit was also tested and verified to work.
Dad's horn also needs to be mounted, along with the horn button and a few other wiring tag ends need to be tied up. Other than that - all we need to do is test fire the 18 and we'll have two operational Bangor and Aroostook Motorcars.
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