My son's new Reading T-1 purchased here on the forum. He got a job this summer and has been saving and saving. He's using his 0-6-0 as a helper and you'll also catch my brother in law's H-10 going in the opposite direction.
Having fun this long Thanksgiving weekend.
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Looks like a lot of fun! ...neat video!......Pat
Ron045 posted:My son's new Reading T-1 purchased here on the forum. He got a job this summer and has been saving and saving. He's using his 0-6-0 as a helper and you'll also catch my brother in law's H-10 going in the opposite direction.
Having fun this long Thanksgiving weekend.
That is a nice size freight train the T1 is pulling.Must be headed for the mountains.Hence the helper.Good video.
Good video and a nice Pike.
Bit of a pedant here: the engine at the rear end of the train is more properly called a Pusher. A Helper is cut in in front of the train's locomotive. 
Great looking layout
Nice to see the pusher on the tail end
Al
Nice video; scenery is very nice as is the video.
That was a great run-by video...I love the camera angle and the differential in height. That is neat that your son is involved in the hobby and worked and saved to buy the T1...an awesome engine.
Nice layout! I like how the scenery is done right up to the tracks.
geysergazer posted:Good video and a nice Pike.
Bit of a pedant here: the engine at the rear end of the train is more properly called a Pusher. A Helper is cut in in front of the train's locomotive.
Yes - and any mid-train locos are also called "helpers", and you are not a pedant for mentioning it. Mid-train helpers existed in steam days, also.
Oh - almost forgot - great video, pushing, helping, whatever.
There is something of a half-true myth that 3RO is not a good venue for pushers, due to the typically truck-mounted couplers. They sometimes (not typically) tend to skew, then derail, when pushed, as we 3RO'ers know from switching. But - it does not usually happen and obviously, from this video, 3RO pushing is quite possible. Right equipment, right operators - yes, it works.
D500 posted:geysergazer posted:Good video and a nice Pike.
Bit of a pedant here: the engine at the rear end of the train is more properly called a Pusher. A Helper is cut in in front of the train's locomotive.
Yes - and any mid-train locos are also called "helpers", and you are not a pedant for mentioning it. Mid-train helpers existed in steam days, also.
Oh - almost forgot - great video, pushing, helping, whatever.
There is something of a half-true myth that 3RO is not a good venue for pushers, due to the typically truck-mounted couplers. They sometimes (not typically) tend to skew, then derail, when pushed, as we 3RO'ers know from switching. But - it does not usually happen and obviously, from this video, 3RO pushing is quite possible. Right equipment, right operators - yes, it works.
I know the WM did it a lot in steam days.
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