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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by chateauricher [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by machinate Those are disapointing numbers. I am hoping to get a short 10 to 15% after I get one. I am thinking of carving the body out of peuter to add extra weight.[/quote] 10 to 15% ?!?!?!? Are you dreaming ?!?!?! To climb a grade that steep you'd better make it a cog railway, or a funicular, or a cable-car. I don't know of any regular trains capable of even a short 10 to 15% grade. H*ll ! Even trucks struggle to make it up a 15% grade on a highway. I know of two grades in excess of 15% There is one in vermont 2 miles long straight up at 18% and a coal road that pushed 24% The vermont grade took me max HP at lowest gear and less than walking speed at 40 ton. The cooling down took approx 2 hours. I did not break down but wondered which would win first gravity or american engineers at CAT. The coal road was quite dangerous, it was vicious and short and you did not dare stop because there was forces strong enough to pull you off the road and over the mountain. My Gandy Dancer never did much. 4 Inches is about the minimum and it would not handle much of a grade. After close to 30 years on the shelf I doubt it will run. [/quote]
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