I used the Decapod frame, drivers, side and connecting rods because I had a Bowser kit.

All but the drivers are available from Bowser.

The connecting rod is attached to the Mogul crossheads.

The cylinder location on the HO frames line up the On30 cylinder location.

The Mogul pilot deck fits on the front of the HO frame.

I prefer to post on the web, hate the way magazine editors tear up articles in their edit. Magazine guys want a lot of useless chatter to fill out the articles rather than just the facts, mam.

Harold

It is rather simple, cut the gear tower off the Bachmann  Mogul frame and mount it on an HO frame. That is a Bowser Pennsy Decapod. The problem are now drivers. Bowser has a few available. A Mantua Mikado would also work. The Mogul cylinders fit the HO frame.





When I presented the idea back in 1999 no one was interested. By the time I had my website in 2004 the idea again had no interest so I never wrote an article. Probably because it requires metal work.

The hybrid runs as well as the Mogul.

Scalelink has self quartering 18mm drivers that would work:

http://www.scalelink.co.uk/acatalog/Locomotive_Driving_Wheels_.html



Those are 15mm.

Harold

Quote from: Catt on October 30, 2013, 06:48:12 AM
If you think On30 is dead or dieing I suggest you visit the On30 forum on Railroad line forums.I think you will be surprized at just how active this scale really is.

Why does everyone use the terms "dead" and "dying"?

Presently it is plateaued from a very high bubble.

Harold

My comment was about the present and not the future.

Who knows about the future and what might ignite On30 fever again?

I was always disappointed that Bachmann didn't do this to the Bachmann Mogul:





I wouldn't take much tooling changes.

If they would have built the small Forney:



That is the present Forney against a 1/37 plan of the small Forney making HO track two foot.  In 1/48" a Forney that size would get around an 18" radius hauling cars.

So many "what-ifs" and kits are still dead

Harold

I bought a Christmas Wonderland set when they first came out, greatest thing since slice bread.

They are the same manufacturers as three years ago, the infamous "Conspiracy" on Yahoo is the same size, and it is hard to find a plain boxcar out there. Please DON'T hunt them down and post where they can be found.

I like On30 but there is always a plateau. There has been nothing new to generate an upswing. Gone are the halcyon days.

Harold

My observation is coming off being away from the hobby for about three years.

Three years ago On30 was slowing down, and my opinion was greeted with the usual hair on fire outrage.

Having had a website an On30 website since 2004 there has been a major deflation of the bubble.

Only having one person come on and complain about scaremongering shows that there is a decline

On30 is great but it has plateaued everyone who is interested has arrived and many have left.

Narrow gauge is a very narrow niche.

Harold

Narrow gauge runs in  bursts.

I remember the Sn3 fever of the mid-1980's going to the Scranton National Narrow Gauge Convention, Sn3 was the rage.

Everything has a run, On30 went longer than most.

There was an On30 burst in the mid-1970's with the Gordon North articles but waned due to lack of commercial interest.

Harold

There is no market for locomotive kits.

It takes labor to package all the parts.

We are in the waning days of On30 fever so I doubt there will be a Mogul with DCC.

Harold

Here is a video of my Tsunami conversion of the Mogul:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_78JD4OsBvU

Visit the "what I did" at:

http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/mogul_tsunami/

Thank you if you visit
Harold

Thank you Bachmann

Harold

Article about a new motor:

http://cwrailman.com/projects.html

Harold

Quote from: Royce Wilson on June 06, 2013, 07:55:27 PM
Harold, What is 55n3?


Royce

Three foot gauge using HO track:

http://www.55n3.org/

Thank you if you visit
Harold

Quote from: vttrainguy on June 05, 2013, 08:40:51 PM
PS....Harold, they are"melting" paint off of Model Power Plymouths, not Davenports which happen to be closer to O scale than HO.

They are probably 55n3.

Harold

Quote from: Royce Wilson on June 04, 2013, 07:34:21 PM
Harold, do you have a suggestion for a better place to gather information?

Royce

Here

Harold

 

QuoteThe Conspiracy is the best site on the web for keeping up to date with what's happening in On30, and there are members active on that group from all over the world.

That is a bold statement that isn't really true.

Ask a technical question and find there aren't any "experts" to help you.

Bunch of guys melting paint off old Model Power Davenports!

Yahoo is the worst format for a forum.

Harold