G800 BR44 pulling test on the Carpetbahn

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kamstutz		#1 Posted : 06 January 2019 03:08:36(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 27/03/2015(UTC) Posts: 192 Location: Orlando, FL		Happy New Year to all my Marklin friends! Having some fun running trains for the last few days leading up to the dismantling of my temporary holiday layout "Carpetbahn". Thought that I'd test out how many wagons I could pull with a G800.3 that I recently acquired. Even though the "Capetbahn" has wide 3900 modelgleis curves it is not easy to pull weight around them and derailments occur rather easily. A fair test would be a simple straight pull, but had fun with this. Even dug out some of my SJ wagons for a spin on the track. Check out my short documentation of the scientific experiment and stick around for the disclaimer at the end. Kurt
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utkan		#2 Posted : 06 January 2019 06:27:26(UTC) Retweet
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jvuye		#3 Posted : 06 January 2019 08:17:36(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 01/03/2008(UTC) Posts: 2,881 Location: South Western France		Originally Posted by: kamstutz Happy New Year to all my Marklin friends! Having some fun running trains for the last few days leading up to the dismantling of my temporary holiday layout "Carpetbahn". Thought that I'd test out how many wagons I could pull with a G800.3 that I recently acquired. Even though the "Capetbahn" has wide 3900 modelgleis curves it is not easy to pull weight around them and derailments occur rather easily. A fair test would be a simple straight pull, but had fun with this. Even dug out some of my SJ wagons for a spin on the track. Check out my short documentation of the scientific experiment and stick around for the disclaimer at the end. .... Kurt Funny , but so much in the spirit of our youth! At least now, you don't have to borrow freight cars from your schoolmates to be able to assemble the really long train! Thanks, you took me back about 68 years!
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seatrains		#4 Posted : 06 January 2019 20:22:12(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 22/11/2006(UTC) Posts: 669 Location: Shoreline, WA		Kurt Love it Always a big fan of the 3900 series track!
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kamstutz		#5 Posted : 06 January 2019 20:36:51(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 27/03/2015(UTC) Posts: 192 Location: Orlando, FL		Originally Posted by: seatrains Kurt Love it Always a big fan of the 3900 series track! Thom - I acquired two sets of 3900 track in two 1953-1954 collections that I bought last year. I had never used it until I put together the "Carpetbahn" last month. Now I really like it and will need a bigger space to build a new layout. Happy New Year to you.
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Andy McDowell		#6 Posted : 06 January 2019 21:01:18(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 04/02/2017(UTC) Posts: 19		Brilliant! Loved the disclaimer at the end. Now; if only I could replicate that with my Z Scale kit

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rrf		#7 Posted : 06 January 2019 22:16:51(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 15/11/2009(UTC) Posts: 300 Location: Silver Spring, Maryland USA		Thank you Kurt! Your video brought back fond memories of my original Teppichbahn. The 3047 BR44 was the first lok I purchased myself. It took nearly four months of allowance at one Deutsch Mark per day to come up with the DM 115 I needed in the summer of 1973. Actually if I remember correctly, the freight cars I purchased with the lok added another two months of staring at my catalog impatiently and waiting. One of the first "tests" I performed with my BR44 was to pull every railcar in our apartment, including my four tin place InterCity passenger cars and my Dad's collection of beer and wine cars. Once I tired of that, my ten year old brain came up with the ultimate test of a locomotive's strength ... Lok Sumo: Two loks set for opposite directions, on the same track. Put the Trafo on full and see which one can push the other backwards. My BR44 never lost. Besides the small loks that never had a chance, she took down my 3054 BR 103, my 3093 BR 18-4 and my 3058 BR 150. I grew out of the game sometime in my mid to late teens
		Rob Mackenrode Wende Bahn

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mbarreto		#8 Posted : 07 January 2019 15:37:15(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 18/02/2008(UTC) Posts: 1,265		Very good! The wagons combination is great, and the loco and the track too :)
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White Buffalo		#9 Posted : 23 January 2019 05:12:22(UTC) Retweet
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