Great vid of two Rio Grande narrow gauge locos before they went for a boiler refit

[beavercreek]

This is a really nice vid of two different power locos a K27 and K37 working together on the last run in 2002 before they both had to go in for a boiler refit. They are still undergoing the refits.
It is a vid by a member on the Large Scale Central forum.
Unfortunately it is a lower resolution but still very atmospheric and nice to hear the two mismatched locos working hard together.

The last part of the vid shows a loco on its own taking a long freight back down to Chama. It can barely brake the descent as the incline is steep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jupAxohzWPo

 

[daveyb]

im gonna need a bigger smoke unit,,,,,

awsome michael,,,,,

 

[Richie]

Fantastic Mike great video think I could do with a few more AMS freight cars makes my trains look very short .

 

[beavercreek]

Cheers Kim I think he did well grabbing the footage

im gonna need a bigger smoke unit,,,,,

awsome michael,,,,,

Yes Dave, they work really hard climbing from Chama to Cumbres at up tto 4% gradient so lovely plumes all the way. The sound and plumes would have been a daily occurence with the freight trains and passengers too up to the 50s . That was why there were plenty of water towers on the line. It is interesting to see a distinct lack of plume on the loco coming down as it is practically freewheeling! ....with the brake on of course.

 

[beavercreek]

Fantastic Mike great video think I could do with a few more AMS freight cars makes my trains look very short .

Yes I know what you mean. I know that the vid is of locos struggling up an incline but my layout gradient (more than 10% in one spot) is so steep that it means that I need four or five locos to pull that many cars! If they were AMS cars well make that six fn3 locos!!
I need 4 Big haulers with motorised helper cars to pull 14 1:22.5 cars!

 

[lone ranger]

Really nice Mike, thanks for posting

 

[maxi-model]

Nothing like a bit of special K (-27/-37) for breakfast. Lots more train consist possibilities now. So I can mix Moffat and flying logos in one train, deep joy. Thanks for posting Mike.

Max.