Thanks for another of your invaluable tutorials - you're one of very few people who take the reader 'step-step' through the process of improving rtr models. Given the quality of assembly coming off the production lines in China these days that's invaluable.
The wire you're referring to is at the exhaust end of the brake ejector pipe. I have a feeling that its purpose is to drain condensation away, presumably between the frames.
The pipe that runs along the running plate towards the buffer beam is the conduit for the GWR's Automatic Train Control system. If you're at all interested you might want to read the article below:-
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Hi Ray,
Thanks for another of your invaluable tutorials - you're one of very few people who take the reader 'step-step' through the process of improving rtr models. Given the quality of assembly coming off the production lines in China these days that's invaluable.
The wire you're referring to is at the exhaust end of the brake ejector pipe. I have a feeling that its purpose is to drain condensation away, presumably between the frames.
The pipe that runs along the running plate towards the buffer beam is the conduit for the GWR's Automatic Train Control system. If you're at all interested you might want to read the article below:-
http://mysite.du.edu/~etuttle/rail/atcgwr.htm
Andy.