Scary run and wreck - Live Steam - 3-1/2" Gauge - 1/16th Scale - 0-4-0 Switch Engine
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This is a video I pieced together with the help of a friend of mine showing our most impressive and simultaneously scary engine called Pidge. Our 0-4-0 switch engine which is an Americanized version of an english engine called a Tich. This engine is only 45 lbs., has 3/4" pistons, 2" drivers, and runs at 70-100psi, but can still pull an adult... Just barely.... The tender holds a little less than a half gallon of water and your average tea pot holds more water than what fits in the boiler of this engine. The firebox has a grate 2" square and originally ran on coal, though we've adapted it to run on propane. Imagine shoveling coal in this engine at speed through a 1.5"X.75" fire door. Our track at home is easily 2/3rds flat or down hill, but the other third is uphill at a 2.5%-3% grade, with about a 15' stretch peaking out at 3.6% and a second peak at the top of the track of about 3.4%. The total change in elevation is about 11'. But this engine, if fired well and let run wide open with no intervention, will JUST BARELY make it around our track.
This engine only has two speeds. Stop and FULL THROTTLE! If you aren't running with the throttle wide open, you're not going to be able to make it up all the grades.
Unfortunately it had been almost two years since I ran the engine, and we had forgotten what pressure to set the regulator for the gas at. Hence why I had an number of passes where I needed a push or two to make it over the second grade, and highest point, by our out building. On the last time through in the video we had just cranked up the fire again, and that time I got the speed I knew I needed to make it up the hill finally. But there was an issue with the track that we hadn't recognize. The last turn you see in the video is supposed to have a 3 degree cant to the inside through the whole turn. (In fact all of our turns are canted 3 degrees in) But the track in that turn over the winter had obviously moved and the first 20' were mostly flat and even had a spot that was badly canted TO THE OUTSIDE. Not so much of a problem for the other engines that we were testing at slow speed that day, but for the speeds at which this was traveling is a MAJOR PROBLEM. And so I lost my balance and rolled the riding car off the track. Fortunately the engine was fine and the only thing hurt was my ego. :)
From the video I've estimated it takes 9-10 seconds to make the 100' run on the lower straightaway. That comes out to about 7.57mph.... That's 120mph scale speed!!!
Like I said, impressive, but very scary for the driver.
Пікірлер: 128
Me: so how fast do you go? Live steamer: yes.
Track is perfectly laid.
the crash: OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOO *gravel flies everywhere* * train tumbells across grass* Me: oh dear oh dear oh dear
Having a small 0-4-0 wide open is a unique experience for sure. I have a 1" scale 0-4-0 and run at a track with long and steep grades.i had the throttle all the way open a few times going up the hill and the engine ran really fast.
If Casey could do it, so can you.
@crookedriver2079
7 жыл бұрын
Nope... because: Charlie stole the handle and the train, it won't slow down.
@soulbabe79
6 жыл бұрын
& how?
*LUDICROUS SPEED!!!!*
have you tried putting Valium in the water? Love the way the crossing barriers start to go down ......and then give up as it flies through.
@adriankingston4338
3 жыл бұрын
🤣👍 valium.
7:17 is a defo lion sleeps tonight moment
That poor little engine gets so much unnecessary abuse in this video. All I heard the entire time was Sarah McLaughlin singing about saving the helpless little guy. So sad 😭
Oh god, this thing is scary to watch from a screen. Damn. Although Tichs can be like that, being based on small switchers. Like your average cheap HO scale, but capable of pulling a person.
How are you riding this Flying Dragon?? Laying along a flatcar? Or sitting up somehow? BTW you are NUTS to run like that!
@JBEEUD
6 жыл бұрын
Jim Bruneau did you not watch the beginning of the video and see me sitting on the riding car behind the engine?
Any person can open a regulator wide. It takes knowledge skill and feel to control a locomotive slowly. I hope no one was injured or the loco damaged. The best would be the driver owner and all involved realise slow speed under control is the way to make knowledgable people smile and nod approvingly. Amacf StAndrews
@JBEEUD
6 жыл бұрын
St A & M Rly please read the description of the video in full. I explained why the engine was being run in this manner. The track in the video is a rebuilt (and heavily modified) version of the original track my father and i built years ago which had MUCH flatter grades and was not an issue for this engine. The new steeper grades of our current track are simply too much for that engine. Hence why you see the engine stall several different times at the same location in the track. Our other more powerful locomotives can handle this grade without issue at much slower speeds and we run them accordingly.
i think i just lost all of my brain cells. sorry, great video.
Great engine if ever for sale would definitely would be interested
@davidharing7562
2 жыл бұрын
Really?
Fast and powerfull.....
Wow,They Say Duncan Rocks & Rolls But This One Is Champion
Is the loco alright?
How much would oje of these things cost? i was just curious
@donquixotedelamancha6596
6 жыл бұрын
From$2,500- $10,000 US
Are you ok?
you can control the speed if you try & your issues with stability is you are riding on a 3 1/2 in track which yes looks great for scale but for stability you'd be better adding an extra rail to make 5 inch gauge & make your riding truck 5 inch gauge
2:58 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
@mightyalbert1470
5 жыл бұрын
It's like a earthquake
How he could ride?
May I suggest you get a Fatshark set of goggles and video gear and drive that by RC then you can add a tressle bridge.
I'd love to be rich enough to be that reckless! She's a cute little engine. What's her drawbar pull?
@JBEEUD
6 жыл бұрын
Mateo Pelissier not sure what the drawbar pull is. We've never measured it. I wouldn't imagine it'd be much more than 10-20lbs though. And it has nothing to do with being rich or reckless. That's just your opinion. ;)
@MatecaCorp
6 жыл бұрын
Makes sense. The rich/reckless thing was just a joke. I think it's really cool that people can have live steam in their own yard. In fact my cousin built an SP 4-6-2 in his garage and runs it quite often. Hope you didn't take it wrong, and apologies if you did. :) P.S. If I was in your situation I would totally do the same exact thing! :P
@JBEEUD
6 жыл бұрын
Mateo Pelissier no worries. ;) ^_^
Hardly surprising. With a scale speed of 200mph there will be suspension compression due to the out of balance motion forces that will lift the wheels clear of the running rail-head. When you reach a curve, off she goes. I tend to stick to the design speed of the loco when I'm driving, especially if it is someone else's.
@JBEEUD
2 жыл бұрын
.... except the engine never came off the track.... the derailment was due to a section of the curve that had become improperly banked.
@mikado1555
2 жыл бұрын
@@JBEEUD Why run so fast?
did it get damaged?
@JBEEUD
7 жыл бұрын
PopsProductions124 no. no damage to the engine. put a slight nick in one of the rails from the riding car and i had a sore knee and hip for a couple of days.
@RealMeggy
6 жыл бұрын
JBEEUD oh dear!
open up and level out that curve a bit. You can see it in previous passes it appears rough and tight.
Scary or not, I think I'd like to have this engine, looks like fun! I model in gauge 1 right now, but I'd really like to have a locomotive I could ride behind, and these "Tich" locos are about as small as you can get. In my case, small is good, as I'm on a tight budget and I've no machining experience at all, so the loco would have to be simple like this so I could get to grips with it.
@mikado1555
2 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind it is not a toy.
@Shipwright1918
2 жыл бұрын
@@mikado1555 I'd say it very much is, unless you're somehow going to be pulling cargo for revenue with such a small loco. That aside, pretty well get the potential hazards of live steam, have a few locos for the garden in Gauge 1. Just saying I'd like something a little bigger to go for a ride behind instead of chasing after and watching.
@mikado1555
2 жыл бұрын
@@Shipwright1918 Gauge 1 is more of a toy than the ride on. The ones that you can ride on and derail, destroy itself, give people severe burns, destroy the track and can hurt people. People have run these ride on trains low on water, run them fast and have them derail, not take care of it and be very, very ignorant with how they treat it because they see it as a toy and not as a machine that needs to be respected and taken care of.
@mikado1555
2 жыл бұрын
@@Shipwright1918 If the first question someone asks me is, "how fast can it go?" I won't let them run as they are not respectful of the machine and see it as a toy. Anyone who runs my engine like how is done in this video will be kicked off. I have seen people run way to fast and derail the engine, which was then seriously damaged in the derailment. The owner then had to repair the loco that this bloke destroyed. I have no time for people who treat them like toys, who show a complete disregard to safety and a complete disrespect for the machine, especially when it belongs to someone else.
@Shipwright1918
2 жыл бұрын
@@mikado1555 Are you insinuating that I am such a person somehow? Or did you just need to get that off your chest? Preaching to the choir here, steam's nothing to muck about with, and treating other people's stuff with respect is important, but I also will acknowledge that it's all in fun, and at the end of the day we're all a bunch of big kids playing trains. Nobody gets hurt, nothing gets broken, all is good.
luckily no one was hurt?
Hmmm 🤔 thats what ya get for running it like that honestly it was bound to happen, that was just silly.
3 1/2" gauge?.. On the ground? You guys really need to jack up that layout and make it a high line.
@JBEEUD
3 жыл бұрын
Why would we do that? If we'd made this a high line that fall at the end would have hurt a lot more than it did and would have likely damaged the engine.
@slashmaster2
3 жыл бұрын
@@JBEEUD But you'd be balanced better so less likely to happen. Just make sure there are no rocks and relatively soft dirt incase it does happen.
May be you should rename Pidge, "the Suicide Kettle" or " Inferno Kettle" . Even devil won´t be fast enough to catch you and her. Really impressive how that well balanced 0-4-0 can handle the track. I don´t know who builted that clockwork mecanism, but that person can be very proud of it. It´s a real jewel !
That is why you give it full throttle before the grades vs even on the downhill slopes. Maybe you need to run at 125 vs 100? Also, running the engine that fast will just ware the dickens out of it! Toy steam engines weren't built to run that fast, let alone an actual model! Use your head man!
@JBEEUD
6 жыл бұрын
David Boyce what you see is with the throttle wide open all the time. No where in the video do i close the throttle or even turn it down.
@24681359David
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah that's sadly obvious. You are going to ware that poor thing out beyond repair doing that.
Then why the Hell would you ride it??
@JBEEUD
6 жыл бұрын
Dark Soul Deity because its fun and challenging to master. ^_^
nope nope nope nope nope
Geez, why run so fast? Anyone who ran my engines that fast would not be welcome to run them again. If it derails it will do a lot of damage to the engine.
Someday you'll learn how to properly run a steam engine. Someday.
@JBEEUD
2 жыл бұрын
If you think you can do better with that kind of engine on those grades I invite you to post your own video showing you can.
Slow learner...
First of all, you don't go full throttle all the time. Must be new to live steaming. This is railroading, not stock car racing....
@JBEEUD
4 жыл бұрын
Sir, I've been running live steam for over 20 years. This particular engine for it's weight and size is a bit of a special case on any track other than a flat one or one that is ALL downhill. And if operating at full throttle is the only way to make a grade then you either do it or don't run. So may I suggest you run YOUR engines how you "know" they should be run and I'll do the same.
That’s what you get for being incompetent. Good thing your only running live steam.