One of the guys in our club pulled 82 cars with the AM Northern up front on our flat modular layout. Ran out of cars as well.
Roy Inman > From: Bert Cutler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:49:22 +0000 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: Back to trains > > > To whom it may concern, I have had 1 allegheny pulling 92 cars on a 2 percent > grade and I ran out of cars so I really don"t know how many it will pull. > Thanks Bert cutler > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 > 20:59:53 -0700Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Back to trains > > > > > Hi Arden --I don't know haw many cars the 2-6-6-6 will pull, but given Jim K's > remarks I think I will leave it at the railroad's usual train length of 30-35 > cars. I have a feeling that if it were to hang together it would pull at least > 50 up 2%. It is one sticky loco with those stainless driver tires. Back when I > first got it I was running the bare chassis (no cab/boiler/weight) with the > tender full of sound equipment, and it could still pull 30 cars up 2+% around > 44" radius curves! (Now it's your turn to up the story ante!)Have fun!Bill > WinansThat is a coincidence. Last night my Jess Bennett built Big Boy pulled42 > cars up The Hill (Sherman) at 10 Smiles per hour without a flinch.Wanna drag? > {:-)I installed a NCE 4 amp decoder in my beast. It draws more power thanour > air conditioner.Arden G (Lodi CA)-------------------No other single locomotive > I have seen will pull as> much at a dead crawl as the 2-6-6-6. I would hate to > see that change!>> Jim K. > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The im Talkaton. Can 30-days of conversation change the world? > http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_ChangeWorld > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
