new loco for cliffhanger

[pilotfriend]

"I particularly like that pugbash"

They must be salivating on NGRM! ;D

[pilotfriend]

The past visit by the 009 local group was held at our workshop yesterday. Our new No7 effortlessly pulled 24 items of stock from Blair Hobson's 'Commie trainset' at 1/3rd throttle and clearly could have hauled more. Is this a record? Turnouts are 18" rad but the end balloons are 13" rad.

[invercloy]

Very impressive, John

[Hobby]

"Commie trainset" indeed... At least they are more comfortable to ride in than those '30s southern railway things...  ;)

So where's the photos of the double headed diesel then?

[pilotfriend]

Blair, I wish I could show them.......... some control on the camera had moved and all I have is black. So sorry. However, I can show the 'Purple People Eater' on the drag,  all alone ..   on its own!



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[MickT]

The last visit by the 009 local group was held at our workshop yesterday. Our new No7 effortlessly pulled 24 items of stock from Blair Hobson's 'Commie trainset' at 1/3rd throttle and clearly could have hauled more. Is this a record? Turnouts are 18" rad but the end balloons are 13" rad.

It would be a good contender John. At Exbury Gardens 2003 (full photo report in Volume 2 of my Photo CD series) a 36 bogie coach train was hauled around Glenbranter without any signs of stress and authenticated by photo and witnesses as "evidence"  - I think Glenbranter has around 12" radius curves at each end, but a different "category" for record purposes as this train was double headed by 2 of Ian Turner's scratchbuilt NGG16 Garratt's - with 24 driving wheels between them providing the tractive effort.

I'm sure that I remember that there have been documented hauls of 100+ tipper trains hauled around Tigger's layout recorded in 009 News but again I reckon this is a different record category!  :)

Mick
Mick

[Tigger]

You're correct Mick - that was behind my VoR and then Russell.  They did even better with even more when we visited the Risbro' and District with their easier curves but my record was thoroughly obliterated by Bernard Pearce's monster 2-10-2 (I think) which hauled everything we could hang behind it!