they sell weights for the engine.
You cant have too much weight on the drivers. I took a Bachman K4 and added as much lead as I could equaly distributed between the front and rear so it could pull more than 3 HW cars on the clubs layout. Now it will pull 10 HW cars up the grade without spinning it wheels and still draws less than 1/2 amp. My bowser I1 will pull a house down as built.
Pete
Dinwitty–
Ye Gods, that’s like hauling coal to Newcastle, to quote my dear, late grandma, LOL! Kind of reminds me of that infamous solid brass boiler that Gordon Varney put on his pre-WWII NP-style HO Yellowstone. The problem was that Varney couldn’t design a motor HEAVY enough to make the darned thing PULL! He ended up having to re-design the boiler out of aluminum, and even then, reports are that the loco could only pull its tender without ‘flaming’ out.
Extra weight for a BOWSER loco? The mind boggles, LOL!
However, if it helps, I have an old Max Gray brass 4-8-2 that weighs five pounds and has an open-frame motor jammed into it that’s about the size of Montana. It’s a real trip to watch it temporarily ‘sag’ one of my plastic bridges, but it can pull anything you want to put behind it!
Tom [:O]
It is not weight, it is traction, it goes help though.
ROFL, thanx for the warning, looks like my bridges will need better designing when I get to that point.