STEAM ONLY Un-Meet,2011@BCRR. 62 Car Mega Train

Sorry, this vid is a tad long. Its hard to show this activity in short form.
This train in reality ended up sixty two cars instead of sixty. Bruce T., Ron A. and Mario S. found another four cars to throw into the mix for this day time adventure at the Buckingham Central. This was Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011.
The engines again were the N&W "J", built by Dunkin Herring, the Illinois Central "mike" of Ray Heaton, and the 844 UP Northern of Chuck Hackett. In the consist were a number of Live Steam Florida heritage cars. Three John Cassady cars, two gons and one caboose, all but one of the Ben Schneider built passenger cars, a very old MC wooden caboose, rebuilt by George Taylor, and a few cars built by Ray Heaton when he was a teen ager.
This respectable train with very respectable engines pulling it, had to traverse the entire BCRR main line. Both reverse loops, all five (5)diamonds, and many switches in order for this video to be presented. The last part of the video has the three engines starting the 62 car train on the 1.7 grade of the Buckingham Central RR trestle. The three engineers did this just for the hell of it !!

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• steam only un-meet 2011
• Buckingham Central RR.
• mega train

[Papasmurf7597]

After some figureing, the train weight is approx. 5.8 tons. (not counting engines or passengers). length of train minus engines is 415 feet long. N&W 'J' of Dunkin Herring's is approx. 1400 libs., the IC 'mike' of Ray Heaton approx 1000lbs, and the UP 844 of Chuck Hackett is approx. 2600lbs.

[Papasmurf7597]

@Papasmurf7597 I was just informed by phone that the reason Ray 'mike' was smokin it up, was because the three engineers had decided to let Ray's 'mike' handle the train alone from the stageing area to the driveway. Hence he had to really shovel a lot of coal into that fire box.

[Papasmurf7597]

@wi11y1960 The 'J' also burns coal. as does the IC 'mike'.

[wi11y1960]

LOL guess which  one burns coal!