Scary run and wreck Live Steam 3 1, 2 Gauge 1, 16th Scale 0 4 0 Switch Engine
This is a video I pieced together with the help of a friend of mine showing our most impressive and simultaneously scary engine called Pidge. Our 040 switch engine which is an Americanized version of an english engine called a Tich. This engine is only 45 lbs. , has 3, 4 pistons, 2 drivers, and runs at 70100psi, but can still pull an Just The tender holds a little less than a half gallon of water and your average tea pot holds more water than what fits in the boiler of this engine. The firebox has a grate 2 square and originally ran on coal, though we ve adapted it to run on propane. Imagine shoveling coal in this engine at speed through a fire door. Our track at home is easily 2, 3rds flat or down hill, but the other third is uphill at a 2. 53 grade, with about a 15 stretch peaking out at 3. 6 and a second peak at the top of the track of about 3. 4. The total change in elevation is about 11. But this engine, if fired well and let run wide open with no interventio
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