My On18 Battery Storage Loco

Built on the top of a Kato N-gauge 11-103 motorized unit, I'm building this loco basically around this Grandt Line "Porter Engineer" metal casting. I want him to appear to be at the controls. I've seen too many models where the driver seems ill fitted to the model or after the fact the modeler tries to find a figure that fits. This time the engineer will have a custom cab build around him!

Some of the detail parts I'm getting off a Tichy Train Group HO scale COALING TOWER LIFT MECHANISM (Part Number: 8008).

It has lots of neat parts that can represent controls.

On18 "Slug" loco

Jeff Law's Owen Firty Timber Co using this On18 gas-mechanical, built to move logs on the company's triple-switchback. Named 'The Slug' (because it spends it's days slugging up-and-down the steep switchback), it has a Kato 11-103 power-truck, and a Digitrax DZ143 decoder. The purpose-built log-trailer rides on a re-gauged Kadee HOn3 truck.

Some other On18 builds using the Kato 11-103

On18 Mining Micro Layout - Testing the Kato 11-103

Update on the On18 (O scale running on N scale track) mining micro layout that I'll be adding to my On30 layout. Testing the power truck.

This is my first time working with N scale and the first time building a micro layout. I want to keep things nice and simple. The Kato 11-103 power truck is very light weight so I didn't want to attempt any grades.

The plan is to build the Kato 11-103 into a battery storage loco for the mine area. The loco will travel in and out of the mine. The mining area will be visible on two sides with a mountain ridge dividing it in two sections.

On18 Mining Mini-layout: Mining Office Interior

Some various parts of the office model's interior. The desk was built upon two resin crate castings. The desktop is thick styrene, the pencil holder cut from a styrene tube and the paper sorter is angle cut from a styrene beam.

The file cabinet is scratch built from a piece of wood and styrene. Dime store novel created in Photoshop. O scale figure, safe, chair commercially available.