More of the essential modifications to turn our antique Hornby Princess from a locomotive into a piece of unpowered rolling stock have been completed this weekend.
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Himself has very neatly cut out out the moulded plastic coal load in the tender and fitted a fake sloping top to the water tank.
In order to do that some significant changes have been required beneath.
The most of the metal block of the Ringfield motor has had to be cut off.
We've also needed to get rid of the two large metal weights which were positioned at either end, as you can see in this before image, below.
They also had a role in securing the motor into the chassis because two long screws passed through them to clamp the two parts together.
Himself has reduced the screws in length and used washers to do the same job.
You can also see he's added a vacuum pipe - which was missing from the model as it came to us.
On the engine he tells me he's removed the pick ups from the driving wheels which removes much of the rolling resistance.
One thing's for sure, this loco will never be self-propelled ever again!
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