Forum member Sinclair brought his Big Boy so we could double head them as well as his 3 sets of reefers along with my 6 UP boxcars.
wow what a sight to see these 2 bellowing smoke and the steam whistle effect amazing.
we were unsuccessful in changing my engine to smoke emitting both stacks at same time. I have another post going on that issue.
I kept tabs with labor effect on it took 3 laps or in this case 60 feet and smoke output was diminished to a faint waft of smoke these engines are truly thirst buggers! he shot a few videos wanted to use his phone camera on flatcar but my tunnels to short in height to do that so used his tripod video camera instead.
we had a great time and I watched as he setup the big boys as multi-unit consists ha!! rich will be happy I didn't use that other word! I'm not well versed in legacy features so was surprised that each engine had to be addressed to use steam whistle I thought setup as a multi unit they both would sound whistle/bell whatever??
as all good train times go it ended too early but I enjoyed the time we had.
