[Jerry Barnes]

Ran the Z yesterday, after a few mods. Found the motor in the rear car was running slower than the one in the locomotive, so I yanked it out and it ran fine. Sorta noisey in the gearboxes, but they have been re-lubed, maybe after a bit more running it will quiet down some, or maybe I won't need a sound system!  Need to get the lights back in, getting new ones from Jim Hinds here:  http://www.richmondcontrols.com/   He has some neat stuff, MARS lights/etc, all LED's. Two sizes of them also.
Video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqU57u0L2Q

 

[pimanjc]

Jerry,
The Zepher looks great.  ....   Now.... if we could just get you to bat/RC it.   
Thanks for sharing.
Jim Carter

 

[Jerry Barnes]

Jim,
ON my work on it, I decided it would be easy to battery/rc it. Would do as you do and have the center car not screwed to the frame, just sitting on it, make for easy access to the innards that way. May do it, for Marty's. Could use my Aristo TE pretty easily.

Jerry

 

[noelw]

Nice  Video Jerry.. Does it have a sound sys. or is that the motor noise I hear when it goes by Sounds real.???  Yard look nice to...

 

[Jerry Barnes]

Thanks Noel. That is the sound it makes, gearbox noise, even though I re-lubed all of them. Not sure if I need a sound system or not, but would be good to have a whistle some. Jerry

 

[Greg Elmassian]

Look great Jerry. It looks as though you spaced the center car up from the trucks, all the rooflines seem to line up nice now.

Regards, Greg

 

[vsmith]

Mongo WANT! Mongo WANT!!!!

 

[Dennis Paulson]

Beautiful train , nice video , thanks for shareing .

 

[Rayman4449]

Nice Jerry!

 

[Stan Cedarleaf]

Jerry, I think the "loudness" of the motor and gearbox is great.  Sounds like it's running right well.  Thanks for the video link.

 

[Jerry Barnes]

Thanks Stan,
Maybe I'll just go cheap(comes natural!) and have that be my sound system. Jerry

 

[Terl]

I agree the gear box noise seems to fit. If I was going to the trouble to R/C I'd have to have a horn to blow for the crossings. Looks great. One of my favorite passenger trains.

Terl