A new Addition 2-8-8-8-2 Triplex Steam Engine

[Larry Sr.]

  RailKing One Gauge 2-8-8-8-2 Triplex Steam Engine w/Proto-Sound 2.0

 

Joe you know this one. Never run on display only. You have the Erie

 

Be going to pick it up tomorrow.

 

Larry

[enginear joe]

Looks like Sam's? 

Very nice. She will pull stumps out of the ground!

[Larry Sr.]

Yes Joe it is. Couldn't help going for it. He told me how well you said yours run. 

 

Larry

[Rayman4449]

Great model and they do run good.  Triplex is one of my favorite all time engine designs  

[enginear joe]

Well Congrats again. Add oil before you try the smoke units. I oiled all the working points of the valve train, and all the axles too.

There are a couple of weak points that may show up after sometime. I have modified mine a little. I added KDs so I could pull longer trains. The big problem for me is that my cars don't all match each other yet. So when I try to find out just how many cars this engine can actually pull, the train will split at any weak point. I need to buy some serious amounts of KDs for the fleet. I'm about 1/3 there. For now I use a pusher to keep the train hooked together. I tried this engine as a pusher and had trouble getting enough head end power to equal it!

 Now that I have a Big Boy, I may do some more testing. Let's try four articulated's up front and the triplex in the back? That should equal out.

[Larry Sr.]

Let's try four articulated's up front and the triplex in the back? That should equal out.

 

That's a real stump puller.

Larry