Part 2 -- McCloud #18's First Revenue Run to Carson City on the Virginia & Truckee Railroad

From July 24, 2010, here is Part 2 showing the first revenue run of the McCloud #18 on the long run to Carson City. These are just a few runbys, and the locomotive is going downhill. It's not as interesting as seeing it go uphill.

For a little more history of McCloud #18, see part 1 of this video.

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[Chatzi473]

so I was just wondering, what is the max number of coaches the 18 and 29 can pull along the line?

[virginiatruckee]

@Chatzi473 Well, I don't have the definitive answer. #29 barely pulls the two coaches, my suspicion is that it would not pull three. Remember, these coaches are very heavy, 50 tons at least.

McCloud #18 is expected to pull three coaches with ease. It was said to pull a 15 car train in movie work earlier this year for Water for Elephants. That was in Fillmore, CA, with less than 2% grades vs. nearly 4% grades on the V&T.

Eng. Jerry Hoover said #29 27K lbs. tractive force, #18 33K lbs.

[sewallm60]

good job don't worry about irritating someone, my opinion you give the history with just the right amount of verbal, thanks

[sgprailfan]

Did you say the train was one way? How does that work out?

[203lindy]

@203lindy Yea, she has split brasses.

[virginiatruckee]

@203lindy Oh, need groups at the head end too, let's try this:

groups.yahoo.com/group/virgini­aandtruckee1976

[virginiatruckee]

@203lindy There's a Yahoo group, the shop foreman Chuck answered this way: Jim no that clanking isnt typical. Basically the brass has been worn out and is near condemning limits. I have taken a lot of the clanking out, it was much worse, but thats as much as i can do until new brass are ordered and I machine new ones. Yes the 18 has a floating type brass bearing in 3 pieces.

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[Chatzi473]

@virginiatruckee Thanks for your reply. I work for the Durango Silverton railroad that has steam engines with about the same about of tractive force K-28s with 28k lbs and k-36s 36lbs. with our narrow gauge coaches I know we pull about 10 max with a k-28 and 12 with a k-36 on grades between 2.5 and 4% So for 29 i can see 2 or 3 max and 18 with maybe 4 but that is just my guess.

Anyways. Great Videos i been watching them for a while and the V&T project seems really interesting to me.

[203lindy]

@virginiatruckee Yea, floating brasses are a type of rod brass, but i don't think 18 has the floating brasses, lol.

[virginiatruckee]

@203lindy Oh, no I didn't mean that, I was saying saying "what's floating brass?" I heard that clanking, I assumed there was still a problem to fix. I'll try to find out.

[203lindy]

@virginiatruckee yea, no judgement there or anything, just wondering cuz i knew that a characteristic of floating rod brasses was the clanking i was hearing.