What is the most cars you have run with a 19th Century Ten Wheeler

I have a PS2 D&RG Ten Wheeler. I also have about 12 or 13 19th century freight cars I run with it. It will pull a lot more but if you want to stay prototypical that is about the max to run.

There is an interesting article by Bob Bartizek on the HiRailers Unlimited web page about vintage freight consists: Sometimes Less is More Realistic In Prototypical Freight Consists.  The answer is usually less than you would think.

Curious how "out of proportion" the MTH 19th. century 10-wheeler is? Is it close in size to the Williams 10-wheeler, or is it oversized like a Lionel general? The pictures I've seen of it appear to make it look oversized.

Bill Robb posted:

There is an interesting article by Bob Bartizek on the HiRailers Unlimited web page about vintage freight consists: Sometimes Less is More Realistic In Prototypical Freight Consists.  The answer is usually less than you would think.

And......the correct answer is..."Less Than You Would Think". Take note of how many cars you see in the historic archive photos.

brr posted:

Curious how "out of proportion" the MTH 19th. century 10-wheeler is? Is it close in size to the Williams 10-wheeler, or is it oversized like a Lionel general? The pictures I've seen of it appear to make it look oversized.

The MTH 19th century 10-wheeler is oversized, exactly how by how much I can't say, but it is considerably less oversized than the Lionel General.  If you keep it in context with the other MTH 19th century offerings, it isn't as noticeable.

If I recall correctly, the MTH model is based on one of the locomotives owned by the Disney Corp., which is either a true narrow-gauge locomotive or a scaled-down standard-gauge locomotive.

Rusty

This is a Railking PS2 4-6-0. The engine above it is a bantam Pacific from a RTR set. I don't have a Williams to compare it to. Below it is a RK Scale C-628. While it is a bit oversize for scale, I think it is nicely proportioned. It looks good with the MTH 19th century freight cars. My freight is a mix of RK and Premier, but they are basically the same cars with the Premier having nicer trucks/couplers.

As Rusty Traque stated the MTH 19th century 10 wheeler is over scale for O scale. The engine is a Narrow Gauge Baldwin that was reimported from Mexico with an identical sister engine in the 1970s when Disneyworld in Florida was made. 

O gauge toy trains models of 19th century engines have a long history of being made over scale. The Lionel General in the late 50's, the MTH General is also overscale, this MTH ten Wheeler, and the K-line Porter are all overscale. 

The K-line Porter is also a narrow gauge engine that was made to be overscale by simply scaling the engine up to be standard gauge. By following this one dimention the entire rest of the the engine was made to be over scale. The Porter is a good model of a 1/35 scale narrow gauge engine that runs on o gauge track. 

I agree on the trains being shorter. 

It looks like I may be getting one for Christmas. I'm hoping I can make enough modifications to it so that it'll pass for a CM ten-wheeler. I'd like to convert it to coal, change to a straight smokestack, and repaint to make it look more like a working engine. Think the one I'm getting is the circus version on sale from Trainworld. 

Thanks for all your helpful input!