Double Heading Railking Steamers

I would honestly get a dremel and cut the cast one out. Then make it posible to have a scale coupler and a useable a coupler as well. Now this could be as easy as cutting out the cast in coupler and drilling in a mounting hole or as hard as making how hole mount rig. It depends on the locomotives

Hi Galen,

Here's the link to a thread that some fellow forum members have posted in the past about doing this project.I hope this helps.

https://ogrforum.com/d...ent/2415514336645061

Thanks, Alex

Thanks guys, I might try it.  I recall a few years back of a gentleman who made a bracket which attached to the pilot truck, then went under the pilot and up to coupler height.  This allowed the locomotives to be doubleheaded, without having to modify the casting of the locomotive shell.

R/

Galen

I was just about to post this very question. How timely. Any experince or tips with having a pusher at the end of your train.  I take it you just set up a lash up in the dcs put have the end engine at the end of the train.

Bumped to see if anyone else has an idea?

Thanks

That will work, however, Historically all steam engines were on the front so the crews could communicate and co-ordinate.

Even in convention operation these two 0-6-0's work well together.




A Weaver H10 Consolidation and L1s Mikado.  Scale non-functional coupler on the front of the H10 wired to the electro-coupler on the Mikado.

In the Western North Carolina mountains, grades like the Suluda grade and the up to 5% grade, one would have a 2-10- 2 lash up to a 2-8-2 in the lead with a 2-4-4-2 as a pusher.  Since I have re-created this run, I am using these engines in this mannor

How much rope did they use to tie those engines together in that "lashup."  

My how-to article on adding a front coupler to Lionel postwar steam engines appeared in the December 2010 OGR Magazine. The article documents how to make the coupler for a Lionel Postwar 2018.  This will work for the 2018, 2026 and 2037 engines and with dimension modifications would also work for many other steam engines that have a leading truck.  I have been using this setup for several years now and it continues to work great.  Since the coupler is connected to the front truck, the coupler will easily follow those tight 027 curves with no problem.

Here are two videos of my double headed 2018 and 2035 engines.

David,

This was actually what I was looking for!  Thank you for sharing, and what a beautiful layout!  Me and the boy enjoyed the videos very much!  Hopefully, someday, our layout up here in the "thumb" will be as nice!

Best Regards,

Galen

Here are photos that show how the front coupler that is attached to the front truck will follow the tight curves of 027 track.

Russell, if you are saying that steam locomotives were never used as pushers, you are very wrong.

http://youtu.be/zV8rA3UE-lc

This video shows 2 N&W Y class on the head end, with a third bunching slack from the rear, that was a common occurance on the N&W, and they were by no means the only road to use steam locomotives in pusher service.

Doug