George S posted:samdjr74 posted:David, just wondering how you set up the front coupler. I'm trying to do the same thing with two 260's and I'm having a few issues. One being the first tender is being pulled off of the rails on a turn.
Thanks,
Sam
When you double head steam engines, the front overhang of the engine on curves can pull the front tender off the track. I tried longer and double jointed couplers to solve this, but the only thing that worked was to use wider curves. My double headed 259e setup runs on O48 and my double headed 400e setup runs on O72.
George
Good to know, thanks. I'm running 054 and 042 curves and unfortunately, I'm space limited to those diameters. However at lower speeds with a double jointed coupler attached to the leading truck I'm able to get it to work correctly so I think I'm set.
