MTH - Union Pacific Big Boy (Garden Railroad) - Video #17

[hack473]

very nice 

[leedleface]

What! You have three!

[leedleface]

What! You have two!

[mccunecp]

dam I cant aford one that is ho scale let a long three wow

[TrainTrackTrav]

Well, if the locomotives and the cars and their loads were one peice of solid gold, (besides moving parts), I can see how you'd need three Big Boys. LOL! Nice vid.

[rayman4449]

LOL I know.  Was so anxious to get the engines running I just grabbed the few cars I had. :)

[TrainTrackTrav]

I know what thats like. Anyone who's into model trains knows how hard it is to wait to see anything new run. It had to be a killer with those three huge steam engines.

[tara2578]

if that was real i would not like to in the way of that convoy and i would wet myself

[1660195]

wow idk if you would really need 3 for such a short train

[rayman4449]

lol Definitely not. See my video description. It was before I got all 60 cars and was meant to be a preview of what was to come.

[WhyAyeMann]

@rayman4449 are all these your engines? If so, how did you manage to scrounge up $9k?

[rayman4449]

@WhyAyeMann These engines sold new for 1000 each.

[grizzleybearz282004]

@rayman4449 WOW ONLY $1000 FOR EACH LOCO AND TENDER I WAS THINKING YOU SPEND AT LEASE $2,500 OR MORE FOR JUST ONE

[rayman4449]

@grizzleybearz282004 I know, for what you get you really do get a lot for the money. It's one of the reasons I like the MTH One Gauge engines so much. Great detail, all metal gears and axles, die cast metal frames and ball bearings on the motors. (unlike the other G scale mfgs which typically use plastic gears which fail under any sort of heavy use.. as documented on my website) They look great and are built to last. In general I think you get a real good bang for the buck in this scale.

[grizzleybearz282004]

@rayman4449 i would like to see how much bigger the one gauge is over the o gauge this may be something i would like to take a try out

[rayman4449]

@grizzleybearz282004 I don't have any pics available but may have to take some comparative photos so you can see. I need to get a hold of some O gauge to do it though. There's a big difference in size. These One Gauge Big Boys are the proper scale for the track width you see at 1:32 but the other popular scale that runs on this track is 1:29 which is a little too big scale but hard to notice and it's even bigger. 1:29 scale big boy is HUGE. Worth checking into definitely. Keep me posted.