Show Me Some Awesome Power On Your Layout

Hudson 5426, having been bumped from empire duty, emerges from shopping  on a unique mixed local, before heading off for her new assignment in Mercury service ….judging by the exhaust, she’s almost at peak efficiency, handling this cut of cars with grace & style …..this newly rebuilt locomotive combines parts from a wide spectrum of eras, including genuine prewar 700E parts. No traction tires here, just weight & brute strength thanks to a large, & powerful 60 mm Pittman,……

Pat

Your longest train is longer than my longest train by a factor of two at the moment. Great video! I will have to try to take a video after work today.

I wonder how much horsepower a Y6B and 2 Alleghenies would produce

Train vs. car - wanna race???

Jim

Pete

Here is power from the Free State Junction Railway.   Awesome power from the transition era.

Major carriers power.  Pennsy GG1, B&O GP9 torpedo boat, Western Maryland BL2, N&W J Class.

GG1s in tandem

N&W J class pulls the Powhatan Arrow.

N&W Y6b pulls a looooong coal train.

N&W Y6b meets a Reading Train Master.

P5a modified on the point of a passenger train.

Awesome switcher power ... Virginian Train Master, Washington Terminal Co. RS1, Canton Railroad SW1500, and a Ma & Pa SW1 trundles across the red and white Bollman bridge.

Awesome power comes in little packages.

here's the growing roster for the NorthWestern

I think this qualifies: monster 3rd Rail VGN "Blue Ridge" Class AG 2-6-6-6 converted to Legacy and weathered by Bruk Bannister.

Awesome to me. 😉

OK, here's some awesome power, just finished cleaning these up, this is a PS/3 upgrade of the MTH UP #80 Coal Turbine set.

Nothing like a military consist!

Here you go...

UP Big Boy, UP 844, and the UP Veranda all in a MU.

Not as powerful as Marty’s, but powerful nonetheless… UP BigBoy 4012 and the seven 15” aluminum passenger cars from the Lionel UP 50th Anniversary Limited Set from 2003.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

OK, here's some awesome power, just finished cleaning these up, this is a PS/3 upgrade of the MTH UP #80 Coal Turbine set.

Awesome, John. Only, who are those guys you can see out the window? 🤔

Ron

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Awesome, John. Only, who are those guys you can see out the window? 🤔

Those are the guys rebuilding my deck.

In the context of model trains, is awesome power, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder?

I think so.

Posted before, but trains on my clubs layout, the Paradise and Pacific in Scottsdale, AZ.

It's the early 1950's on the Santa Fe and an AB pair of FTs are working hard pulling a 50 car freight train upgrade heading westbound towards Flagstaff, Arizona.

Fast forward to the late 1960's and a headend heavy El Capitan / Super Chief is slowing through Holbrook.

Just a scant 4 years later and the same train now has a new operator in Amtrak.

My favorite when I need some “training”.  I crank up the volume a bit and it’s enough power for me. 😉😜

6,900 horsepower:

Tom

Lionel 2035 POWER supplied with LWs

Charlie

@bluelinec4  To answer your question enough to pull three sets of 120 coal cars plus some!

@BlueFeather  This is definitely a monster by anyone standards.   Lots of raw juice with this engine.

@Trainbros89  You couldn't have picked a better engine to pull a U.S.A. military train.

Out of the 22 responses, the Allegheny's by far, 13.5 %  dominate the layouts where awesome power is needed to pull their consists.   

Great choice guys!!!!!

It's hard to compete with those big boys but we have three sleek jack rabbits that can do things.

Here are some of my larger locomotives.

Great thread, Arnold. Thanks for starting it.

Postwar NYC F3s with a Pacemaker consist.

Bob

These are mine - though not on the layout at the moment - all waiting for their turn:

Here is an array of power.  Two EMD F-3's from Lionel and two ALCO PA's also from Lionel.

Don