All the steam guys are finally happily napping in their hammocks dreaming of Sugar Plums Fairies and the hissing of steam. Lots of NEW releases and promises of "...coming to a hobby store near you soon." It's time to get back to making some awesome diesels !!! BTW...lets make some without sound for a change To paraphrase: "I Love The Smell Of Diesel Fuel In The Morning!"
The only thing I like sound in is steam. Diesels I go straight TCS decoders. Here's hoping for a D&H Sharknose or how about a LIRR DE30-AC ha!
No where near time to get back to diesels... not until the variety of steam is comparable to that of the diesel-electric models. But for the diesel lovers out there I offer this...
Steam is so... yesterday. Nothing like the sound of three modern diesels in Run 7 pulling an 8,000 foot stack train up a steep mountain grade!
I remember hearing about the U.P. having a stalled diesel hsuling coal in Wyoming some time ago. The big old mean steam 4-8-4 came to its rescue. How embarrassing!!! But what do I know? Could just be a rumor...... Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
Nope. Not a rumor. It was true. Someone did not assign enough power and a train stalled ahead of 844, so the steam gave it a shove. Try searching on YouTube and you should find it. I have seen it there.
Dismal diseasels! Seen one, well, y'know. They are a neat electricians toy with lots of relays and wire and field sensing devices to tell it what to do. But, they just don't compare to the beauty and power of steam blowing by 10 feet away! Steam for me! Y'all like diseasels, enjoy! Just don't rain on my steamer, or we'll open a blowdown at you!!!
I am not partial to UP by no means. In fact UP is my least favorite railroad. But this is my favorite UP video. It is UP challenger #3985 hauling143 double stacks up Archer Hill. Notice in the video, it takes one steamer to pull a 143 train uphill but three diseasels to pull a train downhill!!! Now that is railroading, a steam engine on the front and a caboose on the rear, not some red blinky thing.
Allright, we could have some diseasels: A Baldwin road switcher A Lima transfer locomotive A Lima yard goat A Pennsylvania passenger shark That class "J" ("J" for "junque", that is) B-mann 4-8-4 does belong in a model park display. It is also at home in a model scrap yard display or a model wreck display. The better running B-mann steamers belong running on a pike. Yup, it ain't fer nutthin' what they call them thar' DEE-zul faynatics "brickheads" I have, over the years, seen more than one photograph of both 844 and 3985 as they pulled double stacks. It seems that when UP swallowed SP, it also swallowed its horrid power shortage. Hey, why not? The things will run, they will climb hills, you can water them from a fireplug (it takes a while, but it can be done) and you can park tank cars with crude along the way (I understand that these things do burn crude and not Bunker-C--strange, I would think that running these things on crude would gum up the works, but............). At any rate, a subsequent poster has been good enough to provide a video that demonstrates half of my assertion. Again, there is more than one reason why diseasel nuts are commonly referred to as "brickheads". Thank you for providing documentation for my statements about the photographs that I have seen.
If steamers are so good...why do I always see a diesel right behind the water bottlle pushing them ?? Hmmmmmm.
