Lionel Big Boys Pulls Scale Mile Long Train on SYVRRy

Unbelievable. Good time to be in OGauge. Now we know why Atlas track was so hard to find. SYVRRY bought it all.

Rod Miller

There is also a video on YouTube by TommyZTrains of an MTH Yellowstone pulling a  115 cars or so. Amazing

Three 20-pound engines pulling a 110' train.

I'd be more surprised if that much motive power couldn't manage a train of that length 

---PCJ

How about two Legacy U-Boats and 115 cars, that should be about a scale mile long.  We emptied all the cars out of the yards to create the consist.  I didn't even have to go outside to do it.

At our Detroit3railers March meet we ran 143 scale flats w/military loads. We did a freight but ran out of cars at 95. There is a video on this forum somewhere.

My congratulations to anyone who can run a 100 plus car train.  It requires good track with large curves, smooth running engines, and good equipment.  I find that a few couplers break or open when I try to run a train of 20 or more cars.  

Another SYVRRy video mentioned that the minimum curve is O-90 and that the Tehachapi Loop is a       2 1/2 percent grade.  I think that successfully pulling any 100 plus car up a steep curved grade is a real accomplishment - prototype or model.

The prototype photos that I have seen of the real Tehachapi Loop usually show 4 or more diesels struggling to get trains over the grade.  The SP usually used several cab forwards in steam days.

 I have visited the real loop three different times but I have never a train running over it even though I waited several hours each time.  

NH Joe

The three Big Boys is impressive, just getting three to run with all the smoke enabled takes well over 10 amps!   At the NJ-HR we had four of them, and we couldn't turn the smoke on any of them or it would trip the 10A breaker.