--- "Eric Berman" <ecberman@e...> wrote: compounds have a "high tractive effort starting mode" which would duplicate the open cylinder cocks for high pressure to all cylinders on both the "front" and

Except that the P2k 2-8-8-2 is a compound loco that probably SHOULDN'T do that... rather it should have a "muffled" single chuff. I think. (I wish more railroad videos would come out on DVD... I just

--- "Don Borden" <daborden@c...> wrote: Again, this is prototypical... in some cases. Whenever a simple articulated engine runs, the two sets of cylinders/drivers will NOT be spinning at EXACTLY the s

--- Bruce Smith <smithbf@m...> wrote: Ahhhh HA! I suspected as much! I've had a theory for a week or so... that the reason the T1's whistle tends to miss the 'short' in a grade-crossing sequence, is b

I've seen enough evidence to prove "to me" that this is absolutely the case. I have not yet consisted any BLI locos (I have no E's or GG1's... and consisting a Hudson and an N&W "A" would look kinda s

I've been thinking more about this... mind you, I have not yet read up on CV21/22. BUT, if I may be so "olde fashioned", it seems like these CV's need to be changed EACH TIME YOU CONSIST? No. Sorry. U

Continuing my "new member" scan of the archives, I find: What really gripes me about the MTH thing... above all else... is that it's a top-line "toy-train" manufacturer who is trying to assert ownersh

Responding to an old message... I'm new here! I've found the same issues of "playability" with my friend's T-1... and I hadn't noticed it in prior versions (a Hudson and an A). For whatever reasons, i