A Large Sigh!

You would think that by now people would realize that I actually know my model trains pretty well.  Well, you would think wrong!  A few days ago, I posted a new True HD 1080p video of my two UP Big Boys double-heading a long freight train.  In the notes, I mentioned that just one of them could pull the whole train.  Needless to say, I got an email from someone who "knows better" saying that it wasn't possible.  So, today I shot another video, of just one of the Big Boys hauling its die-cast auxiliary tender (quite heavy), 54 AtlasO reefers, and a caboose.  I was limited to 55 cars since the layout is only so big and the Big Boy is chasing its own caboose!  If the layout was bigger, it would haul still more cars, of that there is no doubt — I've done it at train shows on the large modular layouts. Hopefully, the following video proves to "Mr. Knows Better" that he doesn't really know better after all.  ::SIGH::

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