MTH HO 2-8-8-8-2 Triplex Steam Engine Erie (Russian Iron)

[shnimmuc]

MTH is doing amazing things in HO. Thanks for the video!

[CORKYANDERSON]

triplex was an Erie freighter and NEVER pulled PRR pax cars.

[Dodger44able]

Terrific looking engine. At least the model ones did the job.

Congrats on a great steamer.

[Tailterrier27]

Woah, that would look great pulling my father's train of ICHS reefers or ICHS coal cars. I love the smoke efffects!

[IrishRambler1993]

Wow I did not know they made locomotives in that wheel arrangement. How much does that go for? $1K+? Nice vid.

[cmf1965]

At 4:20 you can see that you have a track problem...rail not in the rail joiner, & causing all wheels to drop...Yikes!!!

[TheRush341]

its a nice engine i have the same one wors great

[floamman]

Wow, awesome example of why I won't buy sound-equipped HO engines: too corny.  Thanks for sharing! Also, what is with the giant railhead that sticks out at the opening and at like 4:16 ? That looked painful.

[MrPaintballman1993]

WHERE CAN I GET ONE?! send me a link to where i can get one?

[Urchinking]

Could someone please tell me what type of passenger car is the third pennsy car?

[Allious15]

I am adding this to my layout soon!

[paullubliner]

Do any of you guys realize there were only three of these built for the Erie?

[DeltaPhi79]

I donno who'd want one because these run outta steam like..... insanely fast.

[bushwacker2008]

Iam a O gauge operator that has a loop of

HO track. the track I run on is Kato.

that track you operate looks like Bachmann. My experence with Bachmann

was that the turnouts sucked. The O gauge Tri Plex that i run is a super lokie and has the same sound system.

[callinstead09]

Id love to have the black Erie prototype, but I can't stand the overly corny crew talk, "don't worry Leeroy!" could have been better.

[Jared1452]

@callinstead09 You realize the trplex's wern't very sucessful locomotives only 3 were built. They ran out of steam embassingly fast, Too small of a boiler to provide steam to all 6 cylenders.

[callinstead09]

@Jared1452 Uhh... What does that have to do with what I said? <8C

[okevelus1]

next one 4-8-8-8-8-8-4 ?

De seich. so en blödsinn. chunnt euch nüt blöders in sinn als MTH?

[CSXer]

Looks great. Chuff sounds really good. Whistle kind of sounds like a diesel horn though. What's the tightest radius you can runit on?

[STROKER1T]

please clarify.....is this "HO" scale

or is it "O" scale

sound is fantastic

T

[lingkithung]

it is HO scale

thx all

[litlepig69]

How much did that cost you? And are you shoure thair is proto sound 3.0 cuz i only heard of proto sound 2.0 & 1.0

[southern4501isawesom]

@litlepig69 its somewhat new its only in ho models unless u upgrade in o scale

[dteide]

Fantastico.

[hansko2008]

perfect train *****

[mercuryoak2]

i tried looking at the Mth website and this locomotive isnt there

[zirathekillerlioness]

awsome is this proto sound?

[PennsyPostwar671]

It's ProtoSound 3.

[122ray]

Incredible Locomotive!!!

What sound system is installed?

[strike9716]

it sounds like it has the hiccups

[BenAliGtor]

The prototype only ran for a short time-- so unless you're modelling the Erie, late Teens to early 1920's, and you use the Triplex as a rear end pusher-helper on long freights-- it'd be an anachronism to employ this engine on your line.

Interestingly, not a single HO manufacturer currently sells an Erie caboose that's period appropriate for the engine.

[NWRRSteamPower]

Holy crap this engine is huge.

[donaldengine9]

Try a 2-8-8-8-8-8-2 Quintuplex!!

[Rachmaninov08]

Those curves look pretty tight...

[9720680]

this is awesome! whats the brand of cars its pulling?

[BenAliGtor]

The Pennsy baggage is Walthers. The Pullmans could be Branchline- buy my guess is Walthers. Dunno about the 40' boxcar.

[BenAliGtor]

**"..BUT my guess"...not "buy". My bad.