Think you have a slippery slope on your layout?
These guys get caught without sand, or they used it all up previously, but they sure are hard on the steel here.[:O]
(This may have been posted/linked before, but I didn’t see it in a quick search of past posts.)
Awsome - thanx for sharing it![:P]
Interesting video indeed.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but dont’ these deisels have automatic traction control? Why would the wheels be slipping? And why notch 8? That’s sort of like sitting on snow and stomping on the gas in your car. Slow and steady is what gets you out.
I really don’t know the answers…just curious.
Another interesting link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4q8GkS5cEo&NR=1
Seems like somebody didn’t do their job when calculating the max “tongue weight” on the engine coupler.
It seems that Notch 8 was generating both the necessary break-loose torque on the wheels and the necessary horespower to keep the trailing tonnage underway. Not a happy confluence of factors I would say. Somebody got some ‘splainin’ to doooo…!
-Crandell
I think that the explanation turned out to be that the guy who consisted the engines didn’t get them going in the same direction initially. Darn DCC system.
Of course! [slaps forehead…] They didn’t do the speed table matching.
At least it proves the point that as long as the engines can slip their wheels, you won’t burn up the decoder.
Its a neat video, and Jack has a good bit of them. He lives up the road from me, and is a nice guy. He just had a party at his house for pictures, and a get together for train guys. I didn’t get to make it (wife was not feeling good), but I would have love to.
I love the engineers comments on the vid.[(-D]
**Robby-**Tell your bud there that he composes those vids really nicely—[bow]
Traction control does not prevent wheel slip, it limits it. The computer can not tell when the wheels are about to slip so that it can prevent it, but it can detect the wheel slip and reduce power to the motor to regain traction.
Looks one of the units slipped a traction tire. [:D]