Hornby Live Steam pulling power

Hornby OO scale Live Steam has amazing pulling power - but locomotives do vary a lot - guess how many old 2nd hand inefficient coaches my A3 Flying Scotsman is going to pull round a 12' x 6' oval; then count them!

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Science & Technology

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• Hornby
• Live
• Steam
• OO
• gauge

[BucketSeeker]

What happens when it goes downhill?

[OOLiveSteam]

@BucketSeeker Another good question.

The answer is exactly what would happen to a real steam engine; it goes faster! And going uphill it goes slower.

This doesn't happen to 12v electric engines but it does make live steam much more fun to operate. For example did you notice at the beginning of the clip after the loco had taken up the slack in the load you have to put on enough power to create "wheelsip" to get the load moving. Just like the real thing!

[steamengineshooray]

Is Flying Scotman's funnel crooked at the start?

[OOLiveSteam]

@steamengineshooray It does look crooked doesn't it!

To put oil in the loco you remove the funnel and maybe it didn't get put back properly before the run. I'll be a bit more careful next time

Adrian

[modeltrainman12345]

could you double head them or would it all go to tears

[OOLiveSteam]

@modeltrainman12345 What an interesting question!

Over to the Live Steam section on the Hornby Forum and see if anyone has tried to do it......

[AstroTrainboy1174]

your smoke stack's cruked

[mtty1988]

31

[MRacer001]

@cubeproduktion yes it does, there is a wide selection available on the hornby website.

[MRacer001]

i think im in love! btw how many carriges was it pulling in total? i lost count at around 20

[paullubliner]

What do the cars actually weigh? That determines the actually pulling power: I.D.B.H.P.

[platformone]

I counted 30 carriages, not including the tender

[laservader1]

@cubeproduktion LNER teak coaches hornby make great models of them

[cubeproduktion]

@laservader1 what coaches did the flying scotsman pull?

[laservader1]

@cubeproduktion yes

[cubeproduktion]

Awesome! One thing, does Hornby make OO scale coaches The Flying Scotsman pulled in real life?