My LCCA Goliath Just Arrived!

Excellent news, Bob!!!  Can't wait to see these.  This was my "first" official Standard Gauge purchase back in 2013, and I'm just now putting the finishing touches on final plans for my new layout that will have 3 Standard Gauge loops and 1 O-Gauge loop.  Hope to start layout-building in 2014, so it'll be awhile before the Goliath train makes its inaugural run on my layout's "golden spike ceremony". 

David

Much too big for my layout but love watching those monsters.

Steve

Do you people own a camera? 

Just kidding but no seriously where are the pictures.

Something until a black one gets posted.

Bob,

Received my Goliath yesterday.  It is really huge!  Here is a video of Goliath operating on my layout which is 18.5 x 12 with all 72" curves and Ross switches.  I set up a special passing siding (no bridges) to handle this train and managed to create enough clearance for the passenger cars to make the turns without hitting anything.  The Goliath is articulated, so it actually turns just fine through the curves, and it runs well through the Ross switches. 

Howard

WOW!! You truly need to make accommodations to handle that set up. I love the black color the best out of all the current brute offerings.  Just awesome in my opinion! Thanks for sharing.

Sunrise

Glossy Black is one the the best Tinplate colors.

Howard,

Great video and super layout and train room.  I am very envious! 

I agree with others who stated that the glossy "black" Goliath is the "best" of the current Brute offerings from LCT, and as a Milwaukee Road fanatic, I'm thrilled that its all black livery is "prototypical" of the original Milwaukee Road paint scheme for their bipolars.  We will certainly need to combine our sets and run a double-header all-Goliath passenger train consist at Trainfest 2014.  Won't that be impressive!!!!

Bob

PS.  Will your Goliath run cleanly underneath a classic signal bridge or does it's pantographs hit the bridge?

David,

Your layout project sounds like a lot of fun!  I'd love to see your final layout plans posted on this forum.  And please keep us informed of your progress with pictures as you build it!

Bob 

Looks massive, like fat dachshunds on rails.

Bob,

Ask... and ye shall receive!  I just posted a new thread containing a RR-Track BMP file of the current plan over in the "Track Planning" sub-forum. 

David

BTW guys, are these being shipped via UPS or Fed-Ex?  I haven't received any UPS emails lately from the LCCA, so I'm thinking perhaps Fed-Ex?  Their shipping notices seem more hit-and-miss.  Sometimes I get them and sometimes a package just shows up!    Just curious.

David

FYI... for anyone else interested, these are shipping via Fed-Ex. 

Actually, as I turned into our development earlier tonight on my way home, I saw a Fed-Ex truck driving in the opposite direction and thought... hhmmmm...   That's too coincidental!!!  Sure enough, when I checked the front porch, there were two huge -- make that ENORMOUS -- boxes waiting for me to bring them inside.  Haven't opened them yet... just didn't want to leave them out in the 8-degree cold too long. 

The size of the shipping boxes alone are enough to throttle any thought of "over-purchasing" and collecting too many Standard Gauge items.  Gosh... any more deliveries like this one and I'll need to build a warehouse in the back yard for this stuff.  These shipping boxes won't even fit "under the layout"!!!!  They make O-Gauge look like N-scale. 

David

David,

Thanks for posting those plans.  Looks like a major undertaking!  Should be fun to build!  With photos, please keep us up to date with your progress during the build.  I am very envious! 

Hopefully I too will be able to build a dual gauge (Standard and O), layout in the not to distant future.  However, I need to create a "train room" first.  Not sure yet how that will come to be.

In the interium, I need to finish up seven SGMA modules I started that together form a large passenger station complex.  The complex includes four large Bridgeboss train sheds placed end-to-end creating a massive 4' X 8' passenger train shed.  Underneath this shed will run six tracks (SGMA's three mainlines plus three parallel sidings).  The tracks will run along both sides of three passenger platforms.  In addition, adjacent to the shed will be a rare Standard Gauge reproduction of the super rare American Flyer Union Station.  Once completed, this is going to be my SGMA version of the old Milwaukee Road passenger station in Milwaukee.  These modules should make their debut at Trainfest 2014 in Milwaukee this coming November.

Bob

Nice video, but could someone please post a still photo? I'd love to have gotten one of those monsters, but I just don't have a place to run it and I don't need another mantel decoration!

This LCCA Goliath engine also features voice recordings of LCCA's Honorary President Infinity Lou Caponi.   Lou passed away while serving as LCCA Club President this past July.  We hope you enjoy this surprise.

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Bob, the pantographs will not clear the signal bridge.  You can see from the video if you roll thru it slowly that the pantogrphs are about a half inch too high.  If you are designing a loop for the Goliath, I think it best to make it as unobstructed as possible. 

Howard

The pantographs on my Brute do not go up giving 440 clearance. Must have used different ones on the Goliath.

MartyE,

Here's the picture you asked for.  The above Goliath and its matching three Showroom passenger cars are now up for sale on ebay for $5K.   This is the first set of these I have seen come up for sale in the secondary market.

Bob Nelson