I need to remove the side rods from the forward driver on the On30 ten-wheeler. What tool would be best suited to do this? From a distance, the side rod seems to be held on by around pivot stud. However, on closer inspection it looks like it might  be a hex-headed screw. Can anyone advise?

Justin Maguire

Thanks to all of you. I'll take a look at the PRR Pacific. I'm looking at the mechanism to build an ON30 Erie L1. That has to be the ugliest locomotive on earth. It was a 0-8-8-0 articulated Camelback...The only articulated Camelbacks ever built. There were three of them, numbered 2600, 2601 and 2602.

Justin

Berkshire HO driver diameter
Can somebody tell me the dimension in actual inches of the Bachmann HO Berkshire's  drivers? I'm not talking about the prototype dimensions but the actual dimensions of the drivers on the model.
For kit-bashing purposes, I want to use the Berkshire as a starting point. However, the drivers need to be .930 inches in diameter (or close to that). If not the Berkshire, then perhaps another larger locomotive would work.

Justin

This question applys to the Bachmanm On30, 4-6-0 locomotive. In removing the boiler for painting and weathering, I disconnected the LED headlight. Like most LEDs It has a long and a short lead. If I am correct the long lead is the positive and the short is negative. The plug-in connector as a yellow wire and a brown wire. How should I orient the plug when I plug it back onto the LED? Which wire goes to which iead? I believe that LEDs are polarity sensitive. Am I correct?