Here is a great little Youtube presentation that appeared on a brass forum site:
My S Scale B&O EM-1 pulls a long train on my new layout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=699NBq3WCFA
Here is my first video from my new layout. It
was a real "shelf clearer". I drug them **all** out and is by far the
longest train I have ever run in my house. I will let you count the cars.
Some of the cars have probably never been run since I bought or finished
them. There are another 15+ cars that could be and eventually will be in
this train but they are not painted or needed some TLC I could not quickly
provide to run it last night.
You could also subtitle it "I finally made my EM-1 slip!" In reality the
EM-1 DID pull this train alone but it was slipping a bit. The helpers just
added a bit to the effect and the moving of the train. Now that I have the
layout I should probably go through the cars and make sure **all** of the
axles are oiled. In spite of a true helper operation nothing derailed. This
train has at least 5 laps run without issue before I called it a night.
There are only 2 cars in this train that are NOT brass & none are wood. Care
to guess which ones? 1 car should be easy to spot. The other - one not as
easy? When I say not brass -because it is really STEEL! It started out as an
open hopper drag and I added other cars to it. I painted almost all of the
cars so you are watching 20+ years of my painting roll past you. I would say
that the train is 30 feet long.
For those that think the 1 amp Tsunami is not up to the task I say
poppycock! This is the Heavy used as a single decoder stuffed in the boiler
with a RailMaster deep bass speaker pointed right up the stack. If this
train does not turn a Tsunami into a smoke unit nothing will!
Bill Lane
My S Scale B&O EM-1 pulls a long train on my new layout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=699NBq3WCFA
Here is my first video from my new layout. It
was a real "shelf clearer". I drug them **all** out and is by far the
longest train I have ever run in my house. I will let you count the cars.
Some of the cars have probably never been run since I bought or finished
them. There are another 15+ cars that could be and eventually will be in
this train but they are not painted or needed some TLC I could not quickly
provide to run it last night.
You could also subtitle it "I finally made my EM-1 slip!" In reality the
EM-1 DID pull this train alone but it was slipping a bit. The helpers just
added a bit to the effect and the moving of the train. Now that I have the
layout I should probably go through the cars and make sure **all** of the
axles are oiled. In spite of a true helper operation nothing derailed. This
train has at least 5 laps run without issue before I called it a night.
There are only 2 cars in this train that are NOT brass & none are wood. Care
to guess which ones? 1 car should be easy to spot. The other - one not as
easy? When I say not brass -because it is really STEEL! It started out as an
open hopper drag and I added other cars to it. I painted almost all of the
cars so you are watching 20+ years of my painting roll past you. I would say
that the train is 30 feet long.
For those that think the 1 amp Tsunami is not up to the task I say
poppycock! This is the Heavy used as a single decoder stuffed in the boiler
with a RailMaster deep bass speaker pointed right up the stack. If this
train does not turn a Tsunami into a smoke unit nothing will!
Bill Lane
