EFE 1938 Stock Improvements

You may find that the points are too sharp for the stock. Setrack points are very tight on their curves. Not very realistic. The other problem may be that the check rails are not tight enough and they prevent the wheels passing the frog properly. I've had this problem before and added extra inserts onto my check rails. Test it out to see when/where the bogie derails...

Generally, I keep away from sharp track radius for tube stock. The track radius, I keep at >/= 4ft and use the Peco code 75 long turnouts. This gets away from the problem of the recessed bogies binding against the inner side of the body shell, as well as being more proto-typical. On the subject of EFE improvements I have started to printout replacement bogies for the 38TS. These will just snap into the holes on the underside of the carriage (similar to the EFE bogies). These will take top-hat bearings and Romford wheels, a similar cosmetic bogie is also done which will fit an Endo bogie, but this can be adapted for Tenshodo. My feeling is that the underfloor equipment and interior on the EFEs can be done better and the interior for the DM can be made to have a raised floor to accept the motor bogie (the floor chassis still has to be cut, however). This is something I'm working on.

"Are you going to sell printed out EFE replacement bogies?"

That is the plan. I have the prototypes test printed and they look very good. I need to do one more printout to make sure the bogie pillar snaps into the hole on the EFE chassis. This seems to me to be the cleanest solution. I have the underframe equipment already done which just glues in place of the original low relief EFE piece. I want to do the interior next.