Allegheny In Action

[SavaTheAggie]

I was able to get a hold of my father's point-and-shoot camera this weekend for a road trip we took; it's the only camera we have that can take video that we can successfully offload onto our computer. While I had it I decided to take advantage and shoot some video of my C&O H8 Allegheny 2-6-6-6 steam engine with it's Power Functions upgrade. You can view the video on youtube.

The video has four scenes, two with a huge rake of rolling stock including Santa Fe Super Chief cars, and two without said cars. I actually own two more pieces of Santa Fe passenger cars, but the magnet couplers can't hold together, there's just too much weight to pull. That's why on those two scenes (scenes 1 and 3) the locomotive is running slower, even with the two fewer cars any faster and the magnets pull apart - the locomotive can pull MUCH more than that.

The scenes without any Santa Fe Cars (Scenes 2 and 4) show's the locomotive at full speed. Yup, she really does move that slowly, and on purpose. She's got a frightening amount of torque and pulling power that way.

--Tony

Edited September 8, 2009 by TheBrickster

[Captain Green Hair]

She rides really nice Tony, and i like the way you filmed the angles running along the curves and track as well!

[Rijkvv]

Wow, that's a pretty long haul. How many motors have you fit in it?

but the magnet couplers can't hold together

Maybe the new couplers are a solution, you can reinforce them with 1 x 2 tiles (but I think you knew that already ).

[SavaTheAggie]

She rides really nice Tony, and i like the way you filmed the angles running along the curves and track as well!

Thanks much!

Wow, that's a pretty long haul. How many motors have you fit in it?

Maybe the new couplers are a solution, you can reinforce them with 1 x 2 tiles (but I think you knew that already ).

There are two large Power Functions motors in the tender, powered by the 6xAA battery Power Functions battery box. There's a picture here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/savatheaggie/...57617050328144/

The new couplers would work, except I'm not sure I'm willing to put in such a large investment. :) Other options would include rare earth magnets between the couplers (to increase the magnetic strength of the couplers) and/or using liftarms and 2 long technic axles to replace the magnets.

--Tony