Short Cars and Steam Locomotive

[lckiii]

 

Any suggestions for extremely short cars and engines to run on a tiny O-27 layout.  Goal will be to have a steam engine, two or three cars and short caboose.  I think even a 0-4-0 switcher will be too long with the tender, but I do not want to go diesel if I can avoid it.  I am figuring on ore cars (what are a good source) and are there short flat cars that I can use as a log car?    Goal is to have the entire train be under 30 inches.  Is this realistic?

I put the "Best Friend" on there and it looked awesome, but without magnetraction it had difficulty with the incline.  A Marx 666 (with two cars) and #60 trolley handle the incline fine.
You know you shoudl probably have used a smaller scale when the Marx 666 looks like a giant!

[Anonymous]

K-Line Porter or K-Line Plymoth

They also had Ore Cars...

I picked up a Western Maryland Porter with 6 Ore Cars at the York Train show from JustTrains for $95.00 awesome deal.

[alexweiihman]

Would that Lionel 0-6-0 Tank engine fit on 0-27?

[cnw1995]

I run all sorts of things on 027 curves. You'd be surprised at what fits. How about a #60 Trolley?

[lckiii]

The trolley handles the inclines fine, but the catenary pole does not fit through the tunnels

 

  Basically the layout is a dogbone that is folded in on itself with the incline in the middle.  

 

Plan is to model a minature canyon in the middle.  The track will wind through the canyon dissappear into a tunel, reappear for the incline, dissapear, then reappear again to cross over itself.  Will also be including some dividers to add to the madness. 

[Anonymous]

then you don't want long trains... anything over 5 or 6 cars should be long enough and a 0-6-0 switcher can pull that.  What is your incline?  Anything over 3% would be tough for any engine without speed control.

[luther_stanton]

The skeleton log cars - either Lionel or Industrial Rail (Atlas O) may be good rolling stock candidates.  They are small but in my opinion have a neat look to them.

- Luther

[Jumijo]

There's a guy selling K-Line Plymouth sets for $90 on OGR's buy/sell board.

Jim

[Brutus]

My old layout (just took it down about a week ago) was all O27 and I ran all kinds of rolling stock on it including stuff that is O31, with a 4-4-2 Lionel Lines locomotive, a Transylvania General loco, and with those great 0-6-0 Docksiders (Halloween, Copper Range, and LL).  No problems at all and I had 5 O27 Lionel switches too with that high profile.

[kpolak]

Here's the Lionel/K-Line Reading Plymouth Switcher Set:

Looks like a nice small set, and $80.

http://www.boscovs.com/StoreFrontWeb/Product.bos?itemNumber=1601&type=Product

Kurt

[vbkostur]

i highly recommend the lionel 0-6-0 dockside, has no tender(already attached) and can pull heavy loads up steam inclines. does a decent job with smoke for a lionel puffer. all for $65-$100 depending on how particular you are on a roadname.

only downfall is the horn isnot the best soudning.

 

[lckiii]

Thanks for all the advice guys.  I think I will try the Dockside 0-6-0. 

Going to force myself to complete the track work (maybe by the end of this weekend) before I spend any more money on trains though.

[Brutus]

I'd get this one first:

But I'm a big fan of this series!

[magicman710]

Your building another Halloween layout this year right?

[Brutus]

I hope to - everything is up in the air layout wise for a little while   I'll just put it all up on a table again if I have to!

[dougdagrump]

Jim, Michael's has had their Halloween stuff out for awhile but Big Lots is putting their's out now. Haven't bought anything yet but my shopping list is being formulated as I type.