how do you run a beep

[oscaletrains]

the beep we all know about it made by ready made toys, only 50$ and the best detail i have seen in a while but how do you run it? long nose first, swicher, road loco, one, two, three, logging locomotive, or even a helper loco.

so how do you run your beep's ?

[chadw]

I run mine either direction as a switcher.  Sometimes it pulls short trains though.

[tmcc man]

Oscaletrains, I don't have one yet, but when I saw the add in CTT for the Bethlehem Plant, I knew that I should somehow get the $70 to buy one. I like the BEEF's too. What BEEP do you have? 

[Anonymous]

I like them so much that I have a bunch of them--B&O, Pennsy, Conrail, Milwaukee Road, Christmas, Bethlehem Steel (2 versions), WM, Lionel Lines, U.S. Army, and probably a few more that I've forgotten about.

I run 'em any way I care to, but normally long end forward.  It really doesn't matter, of course, because these are fantasy locomotives and you can play with them any way your care to.

I have run lash-ups with the two B&O units that I have, and also with the two WM BEEPs that are in my collection, but generally run them as single units simply because I have a small layout and operate short trains.

The BEEPs rank among my favorite small locomotives, along with the K-Line Plymouths and Porters, the Lionel Dockside, and the Williams NW-2 (and most other Williams locomotives).  Although I enjoy trains of all types and sizes, and based on European as well as U.S. prototypes, I tend to restrict my purchases to the more affordable and simple models just because I can buy them in a variety of flavors, over time, and will likely never have to worry about sending them in for service.

Looking forward to the BEEFs next!  I have a B&O BEEF on order, along with the matching passenger car set.  I really do love this stuff that I can play with to my heart's content without worrying about how long they'll keep on going.

[CSXect]

I have a conrail and a chessie Beep and am saving up to get the B&O beep and Beefs

[Joe Hohmann]

I'll be running my B&O Beep with a set of B&O Peep passenger cars when they ship. The new Beef is nice, but I prefer the details on the Beep (railing and chains). I understand that it's "long end forward" for safety reasons. Joe

[Dr. John]

I have used my Beep primarily as motive power on a very small Christmas layout of a couple of years ago. The smaller size is perfect for small layouts (in my case, a hollow core door was the base). I run my Pennsy Beep with a bobber caboose and short freight cars. Looks and runs great!

[brianel027]

In this day and age where many modelers overly concerned with true-to-the-rivet prototype, it might be worth considering that there were actual railroads that ran locomotives cab end first and others that ran the same exact model locomotive long end first.

The BEEP has enough feel of a real locomotive to be real, even if it wasn't. Besides, when one considers some of the most popular postwar operating cars and accessories (operating target launcher, operating giraffe car, operating poultry dispatch, operating aquarium car, operating launch pad, operating radioactive waste car, operating log loader, etc), you quickly realize these have as much prototypical basis or accuracy as does the BEEP.

Try running the BEEP either direction with a string of the above mentioned items. If someone ever comments the BEEP isn't prototypical, you can tell them neither are any of the cars the BEEP is pulling, which doesn't seem to stop folks from buying those kinds of cars and accessories either. How many aquarium car variations have been made recently by Lionel? Lionel wouldn't make 'em if they weren't selling, regardless of prototype.

[railfan23]

Here is how I run mine

[Jumijo]

I run ours long end first.

Jim

[phillyreading]

Don't think it would matter about the cab position.  From what I know I would say not to push and pull cars at the same time, don't put cars in the front and behind the locomotive at the same time it may be too much to pull. The Pennsy used to run thier GP9's with the cab in the back while other railroads ran the GP9's cab forward.

Lee F.

[dougdagrump]

It is my understanding that the body can be flipped so it can start in forward whether you run it short or long hood forward. This would be especially helpful in running a lashup.

That would be a real hoot, a six beep lashup.

[oscaletrains]

yeah 6 beeps lol i my self have a prr beep and love it though it usuly falls dead on my 0-27 (yeah i run o-27 ) swiches i planto get the b&o beep and then another and paint it in Port Huron and Detroit

the beefs are my next investment after that