C&O H-8 Allegheny Coal Drag Hawks Nest, WV

http://www.kvrails.org/ C&O H-8 2-6-6-6 Allegheny #1633 pulling a coal drag across the New River at Hawks Nest, WV. www.kvrails.org

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• c&o
• chesapeake and ohio
• h-8
• allegheny
• 2-6-6-6
• steam
• locomotive
• new river
• hawks nest
• west virginia
• wv
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• rivarossi
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• hopper

[NW2300]

is the layout flat (no grades) or are there a few grades??

Also, what did you do to improve the performance of the Allegheny??

I have the 1629 model.

[rometsch2880]

@NW2300 there are no grades unfortunately. i have two rivarossi allghenies, i'd like to use a pusher. as for performance, other than adding a decoder, nothing was done. the decoder has since been changed to a tsunami southern railway heavy steam decoder because of the more accurate whistle sound. also, the capacitor has been changed to larger capacitor purchased from radio shack. it helped out alot. the small capacitors on the tsunamis would sometimes cause the locos to reset constantly.

[lennyos]

did yours come with sound or you put a speaker and chip in it?

[rometsch2880]

its a tsunami heavy steam with two one inch speakers installed by a friend of mine

[PRR5406]

Son of a gun! She really handled a proto-typical train of hoppers with speed and grace. Nicely done.

[NW2300]

@rometsch2880

Reason I asked was, I plan to put a decoder in at some point. Right now I run on a DC layout but hopefully i'll run it on a DCC layout someday. This will help, thanks.

[badboylll]

is it pulling 70 cars? i was( for some odd reason ) counting and was starting to get dizzy from looking at them go by =/

[chessie1976]

Oh! Thank you! Better late than never! lol!

[rometsch2880]

every thursday night from 6-9 and the second sunday of each month from noon to five.

[BigUnitBeef]

Nice! Now can I have it for free? lol.....