LOCOS 2

standard pannier 9612 9612 is a standard pannier tank with the older Mainline body, with a cast whitemetal cab (not one of the new bodies) built in 1993.
It incorporates a standard Perseverance chassis, flexichas, compensation with Ultrascale drivers, wiper pickups and the steeply inclined Mashima 16:20 motor driving through an Exactoscale 40:1 gearbox, modified so that the driveshaft is removable. Converted to DCC with a Lenz LE1025A decoder. 

I built it from the kit to see if it was any quicker than my usual split frame etc.  It wasn't! But this was down to my not being used to the techniques.

underside of chassis of 9612 Underside of 9612, showing my arrangement of the wipers.  Note that various bits like the vacuum pipes are attached to the chassis.
standard pannier 7784 7784 is yet another standard pannier tank from the Mainline RTR model built in February 1992.
chassis for 8744 The chassis is from Comet, with Exactoscale hornblocks and guides, Ultrascale drivers and was fitted with a Portescap 16:16 driving through an MJT conversion kit.  This model has split frames but is compensated.  Spacers are in copper faced fibreglass. Note the ATC gear hanging under the rear. The underside of the motor doubled as the boiler!
Same chassis, but now fitted with one of the new Mashima small can motors, small flywheel, Ultrascale 38:1 gears in a simple fold up gearbox.  The ZTC decoder is mounted inside the boiler.

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