A really sweet looking loco Wayne... I'm guessing you added extra weight for better performance? And extra power pickup on some of the wheels?
I have an old MDC 2-6-0 unbuilt kit on my shelf. I just might tackle that one soon!
Simon
Thanks for your kind comment, Simon.
I have added all-wheel current collectors on some of my locomotives, especially if the original set-up isn't reliable...
This 0-6-0, on loan from a friend, wasn't a very reliable runner, so I decided to equip it with all-wheel pick-up. The loco...
...and the tender...
...and a view of the whole shebang...
I haven't added any weight to it, as he may want it back as-is. I'm hoping to buy it, though, so that I can convert it into a TH&B switcher.
While my friend does not have an operating layout, he does have a layout of considerable size. When he moved from nearby Hamilton 10 or 15 years ago, to a ranch in the Rockies in British Columbia, he took his layout with him...as best I can recall, it consisted of 12 4'x8' sheets of plywood, set-up in what I would call an exaggerated boxed-in "E" - four sheets with the long sides parallel, forming three operating "pits" between them, and another four sheets at right angles to those. on each side. Access to the pits was a scramble under the table. Here's a sketch, (no trackplan) as I remember it...
Operations were from the pit at right, while the others were mostly access points for layout work or maintenance. It occupied pretty-well all of the basement, except for his stereo equipment.
The layout was dis-assembled and crated, and went west in one of his trailers, formerly used for carrying race cars. When I spoke with him just before Christmas, he was thinking seriously about reviving the layout (it's well-protected in a fully enclosed outbuilding), which would require building a second floor in his A-frame home.
His wife is also a model railroader, and has done much of the scenery and painting of structures and details, too.
If that happens, I'll likely be driving out there to take his loco back...looking forward to that adventure.EDIT: I forgot to mention that operation on that layout was rather impressive, usually with four or five trains in motion at the same time, most with multiple locomotives (steam and diesel), and long-ish trains...all running on DC power.
Wayne
A few minutes ago, I decided to see what one of my Bachmann 10 Wheelers could do with a train. On level track, it could manage 16 cars (I had 17 cars on it originally, but one was a half-pound baggage car, which proved to be too much).The loco and tender tipped the scales at 19oz.I also backed the 17 car train partway down the 2.9% grade, but even two locos couldn't move it uphill.