Himself has fitted the drive shafts which connect the motor - hidden in the firebox - with the power bogies.
They don’t have pick ups, or an electrical connection to the motor yet, but it has operated in a test with an umbilical link to a power source.
These solid shafts are a development of the Backwoods kit which originally used long, thin springs to take the drive, but the extra flexibility was unnecessary, and from the Single Fairlie kit onwards this is what was adopted.
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