Premier O Gauge Erie Triplex Steam Engine

P. T. Barnum would have loved the Triplex. It was an engine of superlatives: more drivers than anything before or since, too big for the shops of its owner, the Erie Railroad, powerful enough to pull a train nearly five miles long. Ninety years ago, in the days before multiple-unit control allowed one throttle to control several locomotives, the Triplex was the ultimate attempt to put as much power as possible in the hands of a single engineer. In the end, it proved a noble, flamboyant, but less-than-successful experiment.
Baldwin Locomotive Works built three triplexes between 1914 and 1916 for pusher service on the Erie Railroad's daunting Susquehanna Hill (also known as Gulf Summit) near Deposit, N.Y. The cylinders of the Triplex's middle engine were powered by high pressure steam direct from the boiler, while the front and rear engines used low pressure steam exhausted from the middle cylinders.

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[marvinpull]

i wish that too but i want see it go fast not this slow

[Starcraft2Freak1995]

CGiordano464 I hate to be a downer but the Erie Triplex was a total failure because of so many issues with the design. Even with that being said i still wish it was preserved for looks. I wish that so many steam locomotives were still around.... *sigh*

[UP8633]

@sort187 I don't think so there may have been an electrical problem on it not sure but that is my guess.

[CGiordano464]

thta must of been so cool to see running in real life. they were all scraped tho :(

[octane1O1]

@iinlovejameslafferty the 1 gauge version has a smoking whistle with different ending sounds based on the speed of the engine.

[octane1O1]

@drglinski its about 10mph, it had to do with the exhaust drafting.

[drglinski]

I thought I read somewhere that the prototype's maximum HP/torque that wasn't waste was at 5 or so MPH. I could be wrong.

[myshinywagon]

Got a G scale Russian blue [like the vid] put away till @ Feb in hobby shop-It will be great company for my G scale Big Boy AND my G scale Challenger-woo hoo!!

[kiddnormal]

I just visited mine in my local hobby shop. It's on layaway and will be MINE December 14! It's "O" Guage

[Weiberts]

O guage

[iinlovejameslafferty]

is it O gauge or 1 gauge?

[sort187]

I don't know......seems like a lot of hitching/jerking in the first minute-thirty seconds.....is it supposed to do that?

[nardp96]

i own all lionel and this would be the only MTH locomotive id buy! thats a good thing.

[RailRide]

2-8-8-8-2.

[BIGD99daman]

is it a 2-8-8-2-6-2?

[warlordx94]

must have been a pain managing the tender engine