Tom: Beautiful locos – I’m guessing you have quite a few of these on your railroad.
Deluxe – The AC 9 is one of my favorites (being an SP fan)
Burlington: Love the new post – you also have quite a roster of big beasts
Dinwitty: very cool triplex. Awesome work to get the beast to run. Made the youtube link clickable - no luck with the forum thread.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/193541.aspx
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
oops found 2 more!
1st my modified Bachmann H4 which you can see on the earlier video that it now has a bald face,i having replaced the smokebox cover eliminating the front mounted air compressors. also it was heavily weathered.
2nd is my Great Northern class R2 2-8-8-2 no.2059 the most powerful engine ever owned by the G.N rated at 150000lbs of tractive effort with the booster engaged. a true beast. well thats all of my articulateds,enjoy!
2nd is my Great Northern class R2 2-8-8-2 no.2059 the most powerful engine ever owned by the G.N rated at 150000lbs of tractive effort with the booster engaged. a true beast.
well thats all of my articulateds,enjoy!
Great photography, great models and some really fine layouts guys. Thanks.
Nothing too exotic. An Athearn Challenger renumbered to 3985 leading a short excursion on the BRVRR.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Okay, one last one from me. Can't leave the thread without a group portrait of my 3 "Never Was" Rio Grande Yellowstones. They all date from about 1964 and they all run just as smooth as ever.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I remember seeing AHM BIG BOYS for $39.95 at Longs Drugs back in the late 70s.
Burlington Steam I remember seeing AHM BIG BOYS for $39.95 at Longs Drugs back in the late 70s.
A head-on view of the PCM Y6b entering Seneca Yard.
This image file seems to have deteriorated since I uploaded it seven or eight years ago. At least, it certainly doesn't look focused...but it used to be. Anyway, the Rivarossi H-8 is descending into Seneca Yard over the combination girder bridge that crosses the Seneca River.
I’ve enjoyed everyone’s contribution to this thread, but must admit from back when I was a “Lurker” I’ve admired the Heavy Steam fighting the grade on the Yuba River Sub. Sticking my neck out, was the AHM / Rivarossi Y6b the first “affordable” HO articulated?? Cheers, the Bear.
Bear:
I think so. I remember buying my first Rivarossi sometime in 1965 or so--it was listed as a "USRA Mallet" instead of what it really was (Y6-b) and I think it set me back about $59.95 or so (this was when the Akane Yellowstone cost about $110.00). The Rivarossi had hinged articulation, pizza-cutter wheels, and the first models picked up current from both locomotive and tender, so there was a lot of contact on the track. For its time it was pretty smooth running, and it could haul almost anything you wanted to put behind it. Mine gave me quite a few years of good, yeoman service---I kit-bashed it into a "kinda-sorta" Rio Grande L-131. Looked good enough for me. I liked it.
alexstan twhite Okay, two more from me. First is a 1966 or so Tenshodo model of a Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2, for a time, the most powerful articulated ever built. This baby has been re-balanced and rare earth magnets added. I use her to raise and lower the garage doors, lol! Second is a Westside import of a Rio Grande L-105 4-6-6-4, for my money, the most beautiful Challenger ever built. Here she is winding a freight up the 2% grade of Yuba Summit. These older brass articulateds are NOT light-weights, they'll usually tip the scales at close to five pounds, just for the locomotives. If you want plenty of power for long trains, these are your babies. Tom Mate, the locomotives and the layout scenery are both stunning.
twhite Okay, two more from me. First is a 1966 or so Tenshodo model of a Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2, for a time, the most powerful articulated ever built. This baby has been re-balanced and rare earth magnets added. I use her to raise and lower the garage doors, lol! Second is a Westside import of a Rio Grande L-105 4-6-6-4, for my money, the most beautiful Challenger ever built. Here she is winding a freight up the 2% grade of Yuba Summit. These older brass articulateds are NOT light-weights, they'll usually tip the scales at close to five pounds, just for the locomotives. If you want plenty of power for long trains, these are your babies. Tom
Okay, two more from me. First is a 1966 or so Tenshodo model of a Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2, for a time, the most powerful articulated ever built. This baby has been re-balanced and rare earth magnets added. I use her to raise and lower the garage doors, lol!
Second is a Westside import of a Rio Grande L-105 4-6-6-4, for my money, the most beautiful Challenger ever built. Here she is winding a freight up the 2% grade of Yuba Summit. These older brass articulateds are NOT light-weights, they'll usually tip the scales at close to five pounds, just for the locomotives. If you want plenty of power for long trains, these are your babies.
Mate, the locomotives and the layout scenery are both stunning.
Burlington Steam alexstan twhite Okay, two more from me. First is a 1966 or so Tenshodo model of a Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2, for a time, the most powerful articulated ever built. This baby has been re-balanced and rare earth magnets added. I use her to raise and lower the garage doors, lol! Second is a Westside import of a Rio Grande L-105 4-6-6-4, for my money, the most beautiful Challenger ever built. Here she is winding a freight up the 2% grade of Yuba Summit. These older brass articulateds are NOT light-weights, they'll usually tip the scales at close to five pounds, just for the locomotives. If you want plenty of power for long trains, these are your babies. Tom Mate, the locomotives and the layout scenery are both stunning. Tom I understand the concept of balancing a locomotive but how does one balance a articulated with its two sets of drivers?
Tom I understand the concept of balancing a locomotive but how does one balance a articulated with its two sets of drivers?
Burlington:
Actually I probably used the term "Balance" incorrectly. What I've done with some--not all--of my brass articulateds is to strengthen the springing between the boiler and the front set of drivers to give more even contact with the wheels to the track. The 3 Yellowstones received new, tighter springs, and the Tenshodo front set of drivers received more weight. A lot of times, the front driver sets of brass articulateds are a little "light" as far as tracking and pickup. I just try to distribute the weight a little more evenly.
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Some may find the statement that SP's AC-9 is the most beautiful articulatede arguable, but I can't say I'm one of them. And as much as the cab forward is such an SP signature locomotive, These AC-9s just look so much more proportional, even graceful, at least to me.
I meant to add the applicable "quote" to this reply. Oops.