Motorising a EFE tube carriage

Afraid the answer's a bit like how long's a piece of string.

The bogies that come on the EFE cars have a lot of friction. The Rolls Royce solution is to replace all non-powered bogies on all cars with the MetroModels offering at £7 per bogie, which is what I've done.
www.metromodels.net/efe_product_range.htm

There's a cheaper solution which involves taking some bits off the original bogies to make them a bit more free-running (afraid I can't give more details as I've not done this). I've seen sets on which this has been done BUT a lot depends on how level your trackwork is, because there is still quite a bit of friction.

I have an Endo in my 4 car Q stock set and it's way better than Tenshodo. I'm not quite sure how you'd fit it into a tube car but the power should easily be enough for a 4 car EFE. Am not quite sure why you'd need a pick up bogie as it runs ok on its own?

If you are going to DCC your set the Endo motor bogie needs modifications .

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I find it is better to wire both motors together in a single car as most people suggest however if you only have one motor bogie extra pick ups on the other trailing bogie help you out over point work.

Hi all,

Well I managed to fit a ENDO motor in the non driving motor car and on initial test results is fairly good and managed to push and pull Hornby coaches around my layout but I think i will invest a couple of metro models bogies for the efe carriages.

I will post some images, but all I did was follow the instructions below

radleymodels.com/uploads/files/radleymodels.com_--_971908858.pdf

and found some fixings from a Tenshodo WB26-B 'SPUD' motor bogie from eBay and used them to fix the motor to the efe under frame and used a weight from a Lima class 117 stood on its side length ways in the middle with some of the interior sitting on each side of the weight and then I screwed the bodyshell back on which also holds the weight in place as the weight is the right height.

Thanks - that's really quite neat - I was expecting the Endo to protrude more inside the car

personally the endo motor is very powerful and so I don't think you would need to connect two endo motors together, just one endo motor is powerful enough to push and pull 3/4 cars but recommend replacing the poor quality EFE bogies and wheels with bogies and wheels from metromodels and running the model around a layout with 2nd radius curves or greater like hornby track.