With all of the discussions on consist and capability of various systems; I decided to try my first consist. I had glanced at the manual a few days ago when answering a question about consist on the Prodigy Advance system; I did not read it through though.
Everything shown in this two minute movie is as-it-happened real time; no editing other than adding a title and merging the two movie segments. I rushed a little and did not carefully ease the two engines together on the consist make up. I missed the magnet on the break-up segment and had to pull the consist forward a little. I forgot to take out the coupler slack on break-up and you will see the wheel spin on trying to back up the second engine. I had to pull it forward to remove coupler tension and then back it up. Careful coupling and uncoupling would probably have made this a three minute movie instead of two minutes. I only made one practice run so this is really my second attempt at a consist. I simply followed the prompts on the PA handheld throttle for all operations.
Even though the movie is not slick; it shows just how easy consist operations really are. The two engines are similar only in that they both have Tsunami decoders and run close to the same speed (no speed matching was used).
Enjoy and comment !
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