Friends, Now that everyone's beating their chests with fish stories, I
will tell the opposite. My SW Atlantic will only pull one brass
passenger car up my grades. My Overland Pacific will barely pull four
of the Kinsman wooden cars (with AM trucks) up the same grades which are
on curves to boot! My main grade is just over 2% but an entire
passenger train will fit it. With freight trains, I love it when the
engine and a couple of cars peak and the engineer has to now decide when
to ease back on the throttle while the rest of the train is still
climbing the grade. I, sort of, have three different divisions on my
layout--a large city terminal operation, a mid-west prairie flat land
area and my mountain division. Hopefully, when I get into op-sessions
shortly it will make for interesting operations.
On another note, I attended a interesting train club meeting last
night. The presenter gave a talk on passenger trains that journeyed
from St. Louis into Texas. So we're talking the MP (under it various
designations), MKT and St.L-SF. I found it very interesting that the
Pennsy, NYC and B&O ran a fair amount of sleepers into the region and
some as far as Mexico City. For a time, even the mighty Pennsy even
painted some of their cars to match the SW trains--in this case the
Texas Special a joint MKT/Frisco train. So when Bill Lane throws his
convention in a couple of years we do expect to see some cars painted
properly!
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
ed_loizeaux wrote:
> > ...pulled 82 cars with the AM Northern
> > Roy Inman
> >
> > > 1 allegheny pulling 92 cars on a 2 percent grade
> > > Thanks Bert cutler
>
> The near-mighty SP in Menlo Park, CA had an S Big Boy that regularly
> pulled over 100 cars during the monthly open house display for the
> club. Scratchbuilt to boot. And, not to be outdone, the truly-mighty
> NYC in Los Altos, CA once pulled a 96-car train using three leased WP
> SHS diesel units (A-B-B as in CZ courtesy of Reiter Shops), but the
> wheels slipped on Ed L's oily track on a 1.4% grade. Probably could've
> pulled more with dry track. Serious pullers like stainless steel
> drivers. Only way to go........ (Diehards never go away!)
> Cheers...Ed L.
>
>
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