Diesel locomotive power trucks available as raw material kits or kits with milling and lathe work done. Trucks also available powered with 1/2 HP 24 volt traction motors and gearboxes. Kits come complete with working air brakes and all the hardware needed. Many of the brake rigging parts are laser cut steel requiring no finishing of the shape. The journal boxes on the Blomberg B-B and HTC trucks are steel investment castings requiring almost no machining.

The traction motors are 4" dia. permanent magnet low speed - high torque motors. Nominally ½ HP with a short time rating of 1 HP each. Fabricated steel gearbox with a 3 / 1 gear ratio insure maximum durability. A typical locomotive weighing around 700 lb. and equipped with 4 traction motor/gearbox assemblies should be able to haul a train of   10 to 20 cars depending upon car weights and track grades.

Motor / gearbox RTR