Agreed. I just happen to be working on one on my workbench. Perfect match. Overall, even though it is quite aged, not a Kato or Atlas, but considering when it was manufactured, not a bad loco. Pulls the paint off the wall. Ken "FloridaBoy" Willaman
http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/trixu.html The guys are right. Here is a link from Mark at spookshow. Always a fun read. I have a couple of these. Back around 1970 trix raised the bar in N scale with their German engineering and even today they run fairly well. Those mechs were used in a U28C as well as something called a U30CG. Mine painted in C&O colors. almost identical to a U30C.
I'm kicking myself now. I saw an ATSF U30CG yesterday at the Greenberg show for $26 but passed on it. Maybe next time.
The U30CG was the competition of the FP45. High powered Cowl bodies to replace ancient E and F units on the front of Santa Fe passenger trains. The execs thought that freight locomotives pulling the finest passenger trains in the U.S. was wrong, so the commissioned full body cowl units. Besides the full body helped with the aerodynamics.
From the looks on that inner frame works I can understand how it runs quite well. Looks well designed/made
At one time that was really the only six-axle chassis that was worth anything. I had....hmmm....nine of them at one time; two U28's, a U28CG, a shortened U30B with FM trucks, three converted to SD45's with Atlas shells and two converted to F45's with Lima shells. They even made brass overlay SD45 sideframes for this for a while, no kidding. The more they ran and polished up the metal gears, and got the motor seated in with the brushes, the better they ran. Older ones ran better than newer ones as the tooling started to get worn by the time Con-Cor imported them. The three pole motors had a high starting speed, you needed a transistor throttle to creep them. They pulled like crazy because the weight was concentrated on 4 axles. If you wore the nickel silver off the wheels to hit the brass underneath they'd really dig in. Two would pull more than two Kato C30's, but they weren't as quiet and the Katos had much better slow speed. If you were willing to replace the handrails with brass wire, junk the milk-jug plastic windows, and paint the white wheel sides, and close up the pilots with a pilot-mount coupler, they could look pretty good. I'm still running two of the shells on first generation C30 Kato mechanisms today. I sold most of my chassis and shells on Ebay, got around $20-25 each for them. Without them I would have given up on N scale early. Good locomotives.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Minitrix-N-Scal...092656?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item230e4278b0 Here is a u30CG on ebay. No bid yet.$20.
