2 PRR Decapods pulling 100 Scale freight cars!

Quite impressive!

wounderfull

If you're a fan of long trains, here's one I did a few years back.  115 cars pulled by two Lionel Legacy PRR U-Boats.  As you say , it took a couple of tries to sort out the bad couplers, but then it was clear sailing.

Now I gotta go back and do another with 16 more cars!

Yep, can't let two wimpy diesels outdo you!

Wow that was super cool awesome!

Most excellent!

Peter

Truly impressed with the scenery.  Even the track looks sorta good.

@bob2 posted:

Truly impressed with the scenery.  Even the track looks sorta good.

I agree...an outstanding layout. 👍

Mark in Oregon

Thanks for all the positive feedback!

The layout is certainly very nice, I live for the day that I'll have that kind of scenery on mine, but it'll be quite a while!

John, I will gladly trade time doing scenery work for locomotive upgrade work!

If you were closer, that would be a good deal for both of us.

Maybe i can work it in with a trip to my Dad.

I'd be an awe if you could landscape this in a few hours, it's 24 x 12 with a yard extension!

Do not know where the pictures are but in the late 90's, my friend and I set up a large three track L shaped setup with 072 curves.  We ran 107 cars with six MPC era GP's and F's.  Three on the front and three on the back. 

Another long train was at a Greenburg train show in Maryland in the 80's.  There was a fellow who was a customer of ours who sold Williams trains and bet me that my brand new NYC F3's that had just come out could not outpull one of his Williams engines.

On Bruce's large dog bone shaped layout he took to the show's, I pulled 99 cars.  The Williams engine could just pull the train but not the dummy A and B unit.  We had a nice little crowd for that one!

Lionel 1    Williams 0

Harold

Sunset 3rd rail PRR decapod had/has an unusual 30 to 1 gear ratio drive system.  Exceptional low speed, without modern electronic speed control,  IMO.  Mike CT.   

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

I'd be an awe if you could landscape this in a few hours, it's 24 x 12 with a yard extension!

Yea... That might be more than one days work...

@Mike CT posted:

Sunset 3rd rail PRR decapod had/has an unusual 30 to 1 gear ratio drive system.  Exceptional low speed, without modern electronic speed control,  IMO.  Mike CT.   

I'll never understand why the scale steam offerings don't use a gear ratio like this (or better) since in the real world, they could have never traveled at the scale speeds that the current gear ratios allow.  It would offer lower stress on the gear box I would imagine, though the worm and motor would be running at a higher RPM I guess.  I rarely run my decapods, consolidations, and the like above about 30 SMPH.

Other than hurrying around the loop at the end of a session to park something, my steam travels pretty slowly.  For one thing, it makes my 140 foot main loop seem a lot bigger when I'm running them slower.